The long march through the institutions.

See Strategy, Hegemony & ‘The Long March’: Gramsci’s Lessons for the Antiwar Movement, by Carl Davidson, April 06, 2006. | It was popularized in the protests of 1968, and Dutschke’s posthumous 1980 work is titled Mein langer Marsch (My long March). | See Marsch durch die Institutionen at German Wikipedia for extensive discussion. | A reference to the Long March of the Chinese Communist Red Army in 1934 & 1935; note that Gramsci died in 1937. | Various corruptions include “through the culture” or “slow march”. | Widely attributed to Gramsci, Joseph A. Buttigieg, the editor of the English critical edition of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks asserts that the phrase does not originate with Gramsci. | Footnote 21, page 50, reads: [“long march through the institutions”21] “This phrase is not Gramsci’s, even though it is ubiquitously attributed to him.” | Cite journal | The idea is connected with Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony, but does not originate with him – he called the concept a “war of position”.