17 Facts About Gramscian

Gramscian wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics.

Gramscian was a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy.

Gramscian held a humanistic understanding of Marxism, seeing it as a "philosophy of praxis" and an "absolute historicism" that transcends traditional materialism and traditional idealism.

Gramscian started organizing the launch of the official newspaper of the party, called L'Unita, living in Rome while his family stayed in Moscow.

Gramscian received an immediate sentence of five years in confinement on the island of Ustica and the following year he received a sentence of 20 years' imprisonment in Turi, near Bari.

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Gramscian was due for release on 21 April 1937 and planned to retire to Sardinia for convalescence, but a combination of arteriosclerosis, pulmonary tuberculosis, high blood pressure, angina, gout, and acute gastric disorders meant that he was too ill to move.

Gramscian's ashes are buried in the Cimitero Acattolico in Rome.

Gramscian was impressed by the influence Roman Catholicism had and the care the Church had taken to prevent an excessive gap developing between the religion of the learned and that of the less educated.

Gramscian stated that all men are intellectuals, in that all have intellectual and rational faculties, but not all men have the social function of intellectuals.

Gramscian saw modern intellectuals not as talkers, but as practical-minded directors and organisers who produced hegemony through ideological apparatuses such as education and the media.

Gramscian argued that the reason this had not needed to happen in Russia was because the Russian ruling class did not have genuine hegemonic power.

Gramscian believed that a final war of manoeuvre was only possible, in the developed and advanced capitalist societies, when the war of position had been won by the organic intellectuals and the working-class building a counter-hegemony.

Gramscian believes the proletariat's historical task is to create a "regulated society", where political society is diminished and civil society is expanded.

Gramscian defines the "withering away of the state" as the full development of civil society's ability to regulate itself.

Gramscian'story is defined by human praxis and therefore includes a human will.

Gramscian believed that many trade unionists had settled for a reformist, gradualist approach in that they had refused to struggle on the political front in addition to the economic front.

Gramscian's influence is particularly strong in contemporary political science .