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Gramsci: life and times of a revolutionary

In: The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci

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  • Nathan Sperber
  • George Hoare

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This chapter traces Gramsci’s (1891-1937) biography from his beginnings in Sardinia to his tragic death in prison under Italy’s fascist regime. We revisit and contextualize in turn: Gramsci’s childhood; his youth as a student and socialist journalist in Turin; his role in the Turin strikes of 1919-1920 through the newspaper L’Ordine Nuovo; the founding and early years of the Communist Party of Italy and Gramsci’s involvement with the Third International in Moscow; and his arrest and decade-long imprisonment during which he produced the Prison Notebooks. The dramatic political events and developments that Gramsci witnessed, participated in, and occasionally led, constitute a key to understanding his intellectual endeavours. We make the argument that Gramsci’s thought, as it took shape and matured in the course of his life trajectory, is inextricably linked with the pursuit of revolutionary politics.

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  • Nathan Sperber & George Hoare, 2024. "Gramsci: life and times of a revolutionary," Chapters, in: William K. Carroll (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci, chapter 2, pages 31-47, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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