ntonio Gramsci, imprisoned under the fascist Italian dictator Mussolini between World Wars 1 and 2, would have understood the popular appeal of President Donald J. Trump, a domineering figure striving ...

Sardinia, well into modern times, had all the trappings of a colony. The highlands of the interior still go by the name “Barbagia,” from the Greek word for barbarians. In the nineteenth century, ...

This was the Prometeo published in Belgium between 1928 and 1938 as the “Journal of the Left Fraction of the Communist Party of Italy”. This obituary from the Italian Left in exile appeared shortly ...

He has been called one of the most original political thinkers of the 20th century. Historians point out that “If academic citations and internet references are any guide, he is more influential than ...

Antonio Gramsci, the Marxist theorist, ideologue, philosopher and journalist, has long been associated exclusively with communism and socialism. The late Italian thinker’s ideas have travelled the ...

Antonio Gramsci, one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), suffered and died in Mussolini’s prison system. In jail, he wrote his famous Prison Notebooks — more than 3000 pages long — ...

Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote At a time when geopolitical certainties of old are crumbling away, it has become the ...

Tom Wetzel on the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, the Italian factory council movement of 1919-1920, and the anarcho-syndicalist advocacy of revolutionary unionism. Submitted by Joseph Kay on ...

In Aotearoa/NZ in 2013, revolutionary socialism seems impossible. Many believe that exploitation, ecological destruction, and greed are inevitable; as Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek puts it, “it ...

“FOR 20 years we must stop this brain from functioning,” intoned the prosecutor at Antonio Gramsci’s trial in 1926. Benito Mussolini’s nascent fascist regime (at that point only two years in power) ...