Gramsci's Political Thoughts
Carlos Nelson Coutinho, 2012
198 pages
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🔽 Intro and review summary 🔽
✔ Biography of Gramsci
✔ How he cultivated his political philosophy
✔ From his humble birth to cruel death
★★★★☆ "We must prevent this brain from working for twenty years" but even after arrested by Fascist government, he didn't stop writing. A book about his life, from poverty in Sardinia, student life in Turin, exile in Russia, prison and death.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
It follows his life from when he was a child, lost father early, poor, physical disability, scholarship to Turin, involvement in politics, forms Communist party, arrest, life in prison, non stop writing even in the prison, even with malnutrition and torture. His insistence on the power of workers.
Difficult read as I had little background to Gramsci, and naturally, it keeps referring to his Prison Notebooks, and of course no true knowledge in Marxism.
He’s a back-to-basic Marxist.
“We must prevent this brain from working for twenty years”
“Domination without leadership.
Dictatorship without hegemony”
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