Gramsci

an alternative communism?

Maurice A. Finocchiaro

pp. 123-146

This is an attempt to determine the character of Antonio Gramsci's Marxism by way of a critical analysis of Luciano Pellicani'sGramsci: An Alternative Communism? His interpretation is that, except for a peaceful revolutionary strategy, Gramsci is a typical Marxist-Leninist. This is criticized by pointing out that it is largely grounded on non-Gramscian texts, that its references to Gramsci are primarily to an intermediate phase of his development, and that its construal of the mature texts of the">Prison Notebooks does violence to the contexts of the passages quoted. The criticism strongly points in the direction of either an original Gramscian communism or a Gramscian noncommunism.

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DOI: 10.1007/BF00832127

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Finocchiaro, M. A. (1984). Gramsci: an alternative communism?. Studies in East European Thought 27 (2), pp. 123-146.

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