SOCI 3692 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, Eurocommunism
9 Mar 2018
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The problem: the dialectic of party + masses. The problem with intellectuals who will educate the educators. Two figures: one writing in the 1930s, one writing about the 30s. One says what makes rule legitimate is consent based on common sense of the population that one seeks to rule (this becomes a problem of hegemony) Gramsci was the head of the italian communist party. Until 1926, when mussolini and the fascists came to power, gramsci was arrested and spent the rest of his life in prison. While he was in prison, he wrote 20 notebooks, published as the prison notebooks. Gramsci proved himself to be a relatively original thinker, not like the mode of the communist party that he was associated with. After ww2, he was sanctified by the italian communist party (euro-communism), which sought to distinguish itself from the soviet version. Gramsci always remained concerned with political practice. He is responsible for a number of concepts.
