The Italian communist was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th-century. If you are new to Gramsci, Mark Engler and Paul Engler’s piece at Dissent is worth your time. Here is a taste: Too often, mainstream political analysts...
For several years now conservatives, and especially the Christian Right, have been warning their followers about the influence of “cultural Marxism.” One of their favorite bogeymen is Mussolini-era Italian communist Antonio Gramsci. Here, for example, is Christian right purveyor of...
Here is a taste of Jacobin‘s Daniel Denvir’s interview with Yale labor historian Michael Denning: DANIEL DENVIR: This argument has implications for what has often been called “false consciousness”: the question of what to make of people holding beliefs that...
Over at Boston Review, Jonathan Levy writes; “Lunchtime in Italy is not only about what to eat for lunch. It is also about time.” The lunchtime tradition, he adds, “allows private and public life to meet, maintaining a baseline of...
Check out Alan Wald‘s longform review of Laura Marriss’s translation of Jean-Yves FrĂ©tignĂ©’s To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci. There is a lot in Wald’s piece, but I want to call your attention to this passage:...
