Contro il fascismo nascente

by Antonio Gramsci, Luca Cangemi (Editor)

«Cos’è il fascismo, osservato su scala internazionale? È il tentativo di risolvere i problemi di produzione e di scambio con le mitragliatrici e le revolverate». Questo volume propone una raccolta di alcuni tra gli scritti meno conosciuti e più incisivi sul fascismo. Una selezione di testi, realizzati da Antonio Gramsci tra la fine del 1920 e il 1926, che attraversano: la nascita del regime, il delitto Matteotti, fino ad arrivare alle Tesi di Lione, pochi mesi prima dell’arresto. Il fascismo vi appare colto nella sua complessità e dinamicità, nel suo «farsi» attraverso le contraddizioni della società italiana e, allo stesso tempo, viene analizzato precocemente come fenomeno internazionale, intellegibile solo collocandolo nello scenario del mondo. Un serbatoio inesauribile di riflessioni che mette in mostra la forza e la lucidità del pensiero gramsciano, chiarendo la sostanza di tutti i populismi passati, presenti e futuri.

152 pages, Paperback

Published May 19, 2022

About the author

Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. A vocal critic of Benito Mussolini and fascism, he was imprisoned in 1926, where he remained until his death in 1937.

During his imprisonment, Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis. His Prison Notebooks are considered a highly original contribution to 20th-century political theory. Gramsci drew insights from varying sources — not only other Marxists but also thinkers such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Vilfredo Pareto, Georges Sorel, and Benedetto Croce. The notebooks cover a wide range of topics, including the history of Italy and Italian nationalism, the French Revolution, fascism, Taylorism and Fordism, civil society, the state, historical materialism, folklore, religion, and high and popular culture.
Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class — the bourgeoisie — use cultural institutions to maintain wealth and power in capitalist societies. In Gramsci's view, the bourgeoisie develops a hegemonic culture using ideology rather than violence, economic force, or coercion. He also attempted to break from the economic determinism of orthodox Marxist thought, and so is sometimes described as a neo-Marxist. He held a humanistic understanding of Marxism, seeing it as a philosophy of praxis and an absolute historicism that transcends traditional materialism and traditional idealism.

Reviews

[romanticgeek · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some parts of the books are interesting but many others are the expression of another terrifying extremism that is just the other side of the coin called ‘Fascism’. Italy has still a long way to take a step back before being able to historically understand what anti fascism means.

[Perrucca · Rating 5 out of 5]

'I semi gettati da chi ha lavorato per il risveglio della classe lavoratrice italiana non possono andare perduti.
Una classe che si è una volta risvegliata dalla schiavitù non può rinunciare a combattere per la sua redenzione'