Combattre le fascisme

by Antonio Gramsci, Manuel Esposito (translator)

Genres: Nonfiction

126 pages, Paperback

Published April 11, 2025

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

[Mimosa Effe]

C’était bien, surtout après la lecture de M !
Pour le lire je conseille vraiment de bien connaître le fascisme italien, les notes ne vous aideront pas à tout résoudre. Cela permet en particulier de comprendre pourquoi Matteoti est appelé le pèlerin du Néant. Je ne suis pas certaine d’avoir compris l’intérêt du dernier des texte sur le surhomme mais cela reste un bon moyen d’entrer dans Gramsci (textes plus clairs que les cahiers de prison assez difficiles d’accès)

[Thomas Fischer]

Un bon condensé des textes et analyses de gramsci sur le thème du fascisme, même si il manque à mon avis d'autres textes présent dans ses cahiers de prison.

[Soupe de cellophane]

G pas compris la hype mais je pense que je suis con

[Theo Tracol]

trop technique/référencé pour servir d’éveil aux masses prolétaires mdr mais pas mal pour attaquer Gramsci

[Özge]

Très (trop?) technique comme livre. Soit c’est pour des initiés soit j’ai vraiment pas le niveau intellectuel pour ce genre de livre :(

Je mets quand même 5 étoiles pour le titre.