Thomas, Peter D.
Gramsci's Revolutions: Passive and Permanent
Antonio Gramsci's notion of "passive revolution" has often been understood as a distinctive historical narrative, political concept, or theory of state formation. This article proposes to consider it instead as a "heuristic formula" within the "lexical architecture" of the Prison Notebooks. Based upon a diachronic and contextualist analysis of the usage of the formula, I argue that Gramsci's research on passive revolution emerged as a critical element within the development of his own distinctive conception of the "sublation" and "actualization" of the slogan of "the revolution in permanence." Attending to this dialectical relationship allows the political and strategic dimensions of passive revolution to be highlighted, and suggests new paths of research for the debate about its analytic fertility and contemporary relevance.
| Language | eng |
| Names |
[author] Thomas, Peter D. |
| Subjects |
Rivoluzione Passiva
Rivoluzione permanente
Passive revolution
Permanent revolution |
