Le Opere. Antologia

by Antonio Gramsci, Antonio C. Santucci (Editor)

447 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

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

[Rocco Carella · Rating 5 out of 5]

L'opera completa di uno dei più grandi pensatori che il nostro Paese abbia mai avuto è un qualcosa che consiglio a tutti gli italiani di ogni fede politica. La sua lucidità, la sua preparazione, il suo acume, il suo rigore nell'affrontare le varie "quistioni", come scriverebbe lui, fanno dei suoi scritti uno strumento attualissimo per provare a comprendere molte delle nefandezze occorse nel frattempo, e molto delle cause (mai risolte) che hanno portato a questo difficile, stagnante scenario sociale-politico-economico che ci attanaglia ormai da troppo tempo.

[Danijel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gramsci Antonio - izbrana dela (1974)

str. 152- nikoli ne smemo pozabiti, da ima v boju dveh nacij vsaka od njiju interes, da drugo oslabijo notranji boji in da so prav stranke elementi notranjih bojev. V zvezi s strankami je torej zmeraj možno vprašanje, ali obstajajo iz lastne moči, kot lastna nujnost, ali morda le zaradi interesa drugih.

Str. 287- velika ambicija ni le nujna za boj, marveč ji ni kaj oporekati niti z moralnega stališča, vse prej: važno je ugotoviti, ali se je 'ambicioznež' povzpel, potem ko je vse opustošil okrog sebe, ali je njegov vzpon zavestno pogojem z vzponom celotne družbene plasti, in če ambicioznež sam gleda na svoj vzpon kot na element splošnega vzpona.

Prvih cca. 290 strani sem prebral, nato sem samo preletel. Zanimive ideje oz. utopične, saj vsi delavci, ki so prišli na oblast, so postali enaki ali slabši gospodarji. Če pogledamo danes, kaj se dela, vidimo, da hočejo delavce spraviti na kolena oz. na raven leta 1900. Mogoče je čas, da se rodi drugi g. Gramsci?!