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Gramsci's Presence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Federico Mancini — Giorgio Galli
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1967, ONE MIGHT SAY, HAS BEEN GRAMSCI'S YEAR IN ITALY. In April a conference on the communist thinker was held in Cagliari, the capital city of his native island, Sardinia. A noteworthy book and several important essays dealing with his work, and a new history of the PCI from 1921 to 1926, have considerably enriched the already vast literature on the subject. Impassioned debates over Gramsci's political and intellectual legacy have vivified the usually drowsy atmosphere of the ‘cultural dubs’ in a number of middlesize towns, especially in the South. The time seems therefore appropriate for a reappraisal of Gramsci's role in present-day Italian culture and politics. In other words: how does Gramsci affect the contemporary Italian intellectual? More significantly, what does Gramsci mean to the leaders of the crisis-tom party he contributed to found and controlled before the day of his imprisonment?

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Government and Opposition , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , 01 July 1968 , pp. 325 - 338
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1968

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4 See especially the report by Giuseppe Galasso. Also at Cagliari the communist historian Renato Zangheri, co‐editor of Studi storici, pointed out Galasso's ‘constructive approach’ as vividly contrasting with Romeo's aggressive disposition. (The proceedings of the Cagliari meeting have not yet been published and the above quotations are based on the recollections of G. Galli who attended the conference.)

5 Lentini, op. cit., p. 7.

6 Orfei, Ruggero, Antonio Gramsci, coscienza critica del marxismo, Milan, 1966, pp. 239–42. Orfei is dose to the St Fedele study group of the Milan Jesuits which held a two‐day conference on Gramsci's thinking in April 1966. Many communist scholars attended the meeting.Google Scholar

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22 ‘State‐force’ in Gramsci's prison vocabulary.

23 For this interpretation, see especially Fabrizio Onofri, Partito a classe operaia, Bari, 1957, p. 260.

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26 Paris, op. cit., p. 175.

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