Few figures from the history of Marxism appear so frequently in the press and in public debate as Antonio Gramsci.1 For example, in December 2019 the New York Times used Gramsci’s oft-quoted phrase “the old is dying and the new… Continue Reading
A review of George Hoare and Nathan Sperber, An Introduction to Antonio Gramsci: His Life, Thought and Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2015), £16.99 A central question confronted by the authors of this book is, what is Antonio Gramsci’s relevance today? It seems… Continue Reading
Antonio Gramsci (edited and translated by Derek Boothman), A Great and Terrible World: The Pre-Prison Letters, 1908-1926 (Lawrence and Wishart, 2014), £25 The Italian revolutionary Antonio Gramsci is widely acknowledged, even beyond the left, as one of the most important… Continue Reading