Gramsci's Politics

by Anne Showstack Sassoon

The Years in Revolution as Creation * The Ordine Nuovo

The Struggle for a New Type of Organization as a Political Problem * Gramsci's New Emphasis on the Party * The Need to Forge a Revolutionary Party Adequate to Its Task * The Organization of the Party * The Relationship Between the Party & the Class

Gramsci's Concept of the Party & Politics in the Prison The State as Hegemony Fortified by Coercion * Historical Bloc * Lessons of Italian Bourgeois Revolution * Conquest of Hegemony by a Subaltern Class * Organizers * Organizers of the Intellectuals * Intellectuals and the Political Party *Modern Prince * Democratic Centralism vs. Bureaucratic Centralism * party as a the Relationship with the Masses * The Analysis of he Conjuncture & the Argument against Economism * The War of The Development of a Concept * Passive A Strategy for the Bouregoisie in the War of Position * The Party as the Decisive Element * Conclusion

Genres: Theory

297 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gramsci is a favorite theorist of mine. Concept of Hegemony, study of the intellectuals role in the world (and what cat reading Gramsci ain't an intellectual? Thats why we all like him, self fulfilling....), unions, factory councils, as well as the famous primordial and gelatinous statement which showed why revolution was possible in 1917 Russia and not in the modern liberal democracies...

This seemed like a good piece on him and his politics, the Sassoons are both good writers (Ann and Donald), and was recommended by a professor of mine Peggy Kahn.

[Jake R · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic guide to Gramsci's political strategy, that nicely situates his writings in their varying contexts. A little repetitive in the third, longest section on the notebooks, but it cleared up a number of thorny issues I had been confused about whilst reading Gramsci and other secondary literature. Would highly recommend as a guide.