NTA UGC/NET/SET/JRF Political Science Paper 2 - 2024, 2nd Edition, Includes 2023 Solved Papers

CHAPTER 12

Antonio Gramsci

INTRODUCTION

Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) was an influencing scholar of the Marxist tradition. His philosophy may be regarded as an important link between Classical Marxism and Neo-Marxism. He was the founder of the Communist Party of Italy in 1921. As the founder and leader of the Communist Party, he was imprisoned in 1926 by Mussolini’s fascist regime. He died inside the prison. His ideas were later published as ‘Prison Notebook’. He was part of the Western Marxist tradition and is famously known as the ‘Godfather of Cultural Marxism’. Antonio Gramsci tried to move the focus of Marxist theory towards human consciousness, by combining the materialism of Karl Marx with the idealism of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel he ...