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Gramsci: Between Marxism and Idealism
The present volume is the product of Damen’s considerations on Gramsci’s shortcomings as an analytical and practical Marxist which he evidently wrote over a period of years. The structure is loose because he died before he completed it and the draft chapters were only discovered posthumously and eventually published in 1982.
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152 pages, Unknown Binding
Published January 1, 2019
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May 30, 2026
My copy of this text is in this edition on Lulu: https://www.lulu.com/shop/onorato-dam...
You can also find this text in print or pdf from the ICT: https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2....
This book written by Damen is a mess. Damen rips Gramsci's idealist conception of pseudo-intellectual neo-idealist "Marxism" to shreds, but he does so in a disorganised and chaotic manner. This is because the book was never finished, and comprises several chapters that are only tangentially related to the subject matter in question. For example, Damen will mention the Aventine Secession and the Inesta Committee. The text then reprints half a dozen documents that are only of historical and scholastic interest to repeat the same points about Gramsci and the PCI already made in the preceding chapters.
I agree with Damen's analysis of Gramsci, as well as the CWO's useful introduction locating Gramscism contextually within the wider corpus of liberal academia and reformist currents all over the world. But the unfinished nature of this text made the second-half a slog, and I skimmed most of it.
3*.
You can also find this text in print or pdf from the ICT: https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2....
This book written by Damen is a mess. Damen rips Gramsci's idealist conception of pseudo-intellectual neo-idealist "Marxism" to shreds, but he does so in a disorganised and chaotic manner. This is because the book was never finished, and comprises several chapters that are only tangentially related to the subject matter in question. For example, Damen will mention the Aventine Secession and the Inesta Committee. The text then reprints half a dozen documents that are only of historical and scholastic interest to repeat the same points about Gramsci and the PCI already made in the preceding chapters.
I agree with Damen's analysis of Gramsci, as well as the CWO's useful introduction locating Gramscism contextually within the wider corpus of liberal academia and reformist currents all over the world. But the unfinished nature of this text made the second-half a slog, and I skimmed most of it.
3*.
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