Do right wingers not read Marx or Gramsci?

[RadioRaheem84]

I've been reading a lot of Gramsci lately and he answers most of the junk peddled by the right wing libertarians on how capitalism enriches people but provides a service.

How is it that Friedman can still be considered a serious scholar and a philosophical proponent of capitalism with Gramsci still out there countering a lot of his BS?

Most of this junk was discussed by Marx too in his analysis of the bourgeois.

Do these people not read Marx? Not read Marxist writers?

At least Marxists always read their opponents work and most of the study focuses on countering capitalist myths. Can these lazy guys at least read a Marxist book once in a while?

[Red Future]

Judging Glenn Beck and his Nazi/Communist/Fabians, (wtf)!!. I would guess not, they probably read criticisms of Marx or Gramsci like christian fundementalists will read criticisms of Dawkins but not his actual works.

Weirdly I remember reading in a sociology textbook about Right wingers adapting some of Gramsci's ideas :confused: ?

[Sasha]

sadly "dont confuse me with the facts when my mind is made up" is an sentiment shared by the left and right in about equal amounts.

[Tablo]

Some of the more scholarly individuals on the right have. I assume they typically either reject it because of personal agenda, an inability to understand, or simply the belief it is utopian due to a lack of study in other fields.