Achcar, Gilbert

Morbid Symptoms: What Did Gramsci Really Mean?

fa parte di Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power , 1 , 2 , Leiden : Brill , 2022 , pp. 379 - 387
One of Gramsci's most quoted phrases is his 1930 statement in the Prison Notebooks that ‘[t]he crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear'. This has traditionally been taken to refer to the emergence of fascism against a background of capitalist crisis and failure of anti-capitalist forces. However, a closer examination of the textual and historical context of that sentence indicates that Gramsci was more likely to have been referring to the pci's ultraleft turn in conjunction with the Comintern's Third Period.
Lingua eng
Nomi [author] Achcar, Gilbert
Soggetti
Pcdi (Partito comunista d'Italia) (1921-1943)
Fascismo
PcdI (Communist Party of Italy) (1921-1943)
Fascism