By Marcos Del Roio
During this paintings, Marcos Del Roio analyses Gramsci's pre-prison political-theoretical task in gentle of a thorough thesis: that all through Gramsci's existence we see a complete continuity among his political praxis and his philosophical mirrored image. that's not to disregard the alterations, turns, or even fractures within the Sardinian communist's pondering throughout his short yet wealthy life. to the contrary. interpreting Gramsci, we discover key rules that set the rhythm of all of his proposal, no less than from the time of the Turin manufacturing facility councils up until eventually the writing of his ultimate notebooks. those principles additionally demonstrated the fundamental id of his considering, all through (and over and above) the variety of its manifestations: simply as we mostly locate in all nice thinkers. This book's name, relating the metaphor of a ray of sunshine passing via a prism, expresses this counterpoint among id and variety. the most type we discover within the subtitle speaks to this related not easy, thought of within the context of Gramsci's political motion and the unconventional Leninism that guided him in his successful conflict with Bordiga: the 'united front'. This political formulation was once coined in Germany in 1921 and was once imperative to the past due Lenin's considering, and during this paintings Del Roio exhibits its a variety of diverse interpretations because the foundation for analysing Gramsci's personal place during this regard.
Biographical note
Marcos Del Roio, PhD in Political technology at FFLCH-USP, is Professor of Political technology on the college of Philosophy and Sciences at UNESP (campus of Marilia), the place he focuses totally on the parts of Political thought of Socialism and employee coverage. He has released books, ebook chapters, and articles in Brazil and in another country. he's the editor of the magazine Novos Rumos, and director of the Astrojildo Pereira Institute.
Readership
Scholars and activists drawn to the improvement of Gramsci’s pondering and/or the advance of United entrance politics in the course of the Nineteen Thirties and the increase of German fascism.
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45 It was precisely with the purpose of preventing the realisation of such a prescient anticipation of later fascism that Gramsci directed a true and proper accusation against the leadership of the psi, with all its contradictions and inconsistencies. The psi had not proven able to rally the workers’ and peasants’ forces because it did not seize the moment for the international socialist revolution of which Italy was a part, remaining a parliamentarian party acting within bourgeois liberal democracy, absent from the international politics of the workers’ movement.
17–34. In order to follow Gramsci’s intellectual and political trajectory in the decade in which he lived and fought in Turin, it is very useful to look up D’Orsi 2004, Olmo 1998 and Dias 2000. Gramsci 1973, p. 215. 36 It is easy to see that for Gramsci, the proletarian state could not be born from some sort of democratic advance within the liberal-bourgeois institutions, but only from the social institutions generated by self-organisation in the sphere of labour, aiming at its own liberation. Once again, it is possible to observe the similarity with Rosa Luxemburg’s thought.
Luxemburg 1976, p. 550. Luxemburg 1976, p. 551. war, revolution and the communist scission in gramsci 19 need to split with reformism and with the leadership that took the workers’ party to that situation. According to Lenin’s critique, she thus concealed the link between ‘social-chauvinism’ and ‘opportunism’, the nationalist stance of social democracy and reformism. For Lenin, ‘this is wrong from the standpoint of theory, for it is impossible to explain the “betrayal” without linking it up with opportunism as a trend with a long history, the history of the whole Second International’.