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The historical bloc as a strategic node in Gramscis Prison Notebooks

In: The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci

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  • Panagiotis Sotiris

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The historical bloc is a central notion within the conceptual framework of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. The aim of this chapter is to suggest that the historical bloc is not a descriptive or simply analytical notion, but rather a strategic one, pointing to the particular articulation between theory and strategy in the Notebooks. Consequently, a politics aiming at the formation of a subaltern historical bloc does not refer simply to social alliances, but rather to the combination between an alliance of the subaltern classes and social groups, with a political programme that aims at profound transformation and the political and organizational forms that can liberate such an antagonistic historical dynamic.

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  • Panagiotis Sotiris, 2024. "The historical bloc as a strategic node in Gramscis Prison Notebooks," Chapters, in: William K. Carroll (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci, chapter 7, pages 118-135, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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