About Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist theorist and politician (1891–1937), founder of the Italian Communist Party, who spent the last eleven years of his life in Mussolini's prisons. Gramsci's notebooks — written in prison in fragmentary form, partly to evade censorship — developed concepts of cultural hegemony, the organic intellectual, and the distinction between war of position and war of manoeuvre that transformed Western Marxist thought.
Books by Antonio Gramsci
Prison Notebooks
A major European Marxist text about culture, hegemony, intellectuals, civil society, and political leadership.
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The source of one of the most influential ideas in modern political thought: cultural hegemony. Writing from a Fascist prison, Gramsci asked why workers consent to a system that exploits them, and answered that the ruli…
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