GS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Proletariat, Social Forces, Embezzlement
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Gs201 lesson 7: antonio gramsci and cultural marxism (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) At age 5 father is imprisoned for embezzlement and gramsci is subsequently raised by his mother. Financial means hinder his education, but at age 21 he wins a scholarship to study in turin. The southern question would be formative in his political thought: regional divide in italy, rural south (peasant culture, industrialized north. 1905 gransci begins reading socialist publications, including avanti! 1913 he witnesses the first election with universal suffrage. This is also the year he becomes a member of the socialist party. 1914 he begins writing for il grido del popolo. 1917 government puts down a popular uprising in turin, killing fifty people and imprisoning key labour leaders and left intellectuals, including maria giudice, the editor in chief of il grido del popolo. 1917-18 gramsci continues to write, while also becoming secretary of the socialist party.
