Gramsci
Americannoun
noun
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“The old is dying and the new cannot be born,” the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci wrote in 1930.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Speakers summoned the grand ideas of figures like the Pope, Homer, Dostoyevsky, Leo Strauss, Tocqueville and Gramsci.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
Bloch’s book is only one of the numerous little-known or underappreciated works that Toscano draws upon, although usual suspects like Hannah Arendt, Antonio Gramsci and Theodor Adorno certainly appear as well.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2024
While there, you can also visit the tomb of Antonio Gramsci, the Italian philosopher, writer and founder of the Italian Communist Party, who was imprisoned until near death for opposing fascism.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
During the years 1919-20 Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist, adopted as his own the maxim ‘pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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