Hobsbawm, Eric J.
The Great Gramsci
Review of A. Gramsci, Selection from the Prison Notebooks (1971); and A. Gramsci, Letters from Prison (1973).«After listing the various philosophical and political versions attributed to Gramsci's thought, Hobsbawm asserts that he belonged to that revolutionary "new left" of 1910-20 (a strange grouping) which added unexpected proselytes to the new Bolsheviks. They were attracted to Marxism, not by Marx's theory which the then prevailing interpretations presented as positivistic and deterministic, but though Lenin's revolutionary praxis. Hobsbawm also emphasizes Gramsci high status as a "political theorist" and attributes to him paternity of the political line of the PCI. Hobsbawm especially emphasizes the concept of the "war of position" in an historical phase in which the labor movement has been defeated» (M.B.).
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[author] Hobsbawm, Eric J. |
Recensione di
Letters from Prison
, 1973
