Category Archives: Marxism

Lenin, for the most part, believed that class conflict was strong, and that the working class is subversive and social-democratic by nature (Fernia 33-34). However, Gramsci diverted from this: …in this Quarderni, Gramsci stressed that class conflict is not just … Continue reading →

Femia notes the fact that little attention at coming up with an exact meaning of hegemony and that most uses are vague (23). Gramsci notes that a dominant class controls in two ways: “‘domination’ (dominio), or coercion, and ‘intellectual and … Continue reading →

Femia writes that as Gramsci grew older, his focus changed to emphasizing “the self-education of the workers”: “The task of the revolutionary party, therefore, should be not to tutor the proletariat but to promote the formation of the consigli di … Continue reading →

I thought I’d look into Gramsci as an alternative to Althusser (or complement, I don’t know) because he wrote about Marxism and hegemony back in Italy in the early 20th century. Joseph V. Femia, author of Gramsci’s Political Though: Hegemony, … Continue reading →