Gramsci
Americannoun
noun
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Gramsci wrote these words during the crisis unleashed by the onset of Soviet communism, Mussolini’s fascism and the Great Depression.
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
Paradoxically, they cite Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher, and his theory of “cultural hegemony” to explain how beliefs expressed by the ruling class trickle down to become cultural norms.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022
Gramsci brilliantly played with these terms, extending them as he grappled with the generalized crisis of authority in his own time.
From Salon • Oct. 18, 2021
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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