Gramsci

American  

[gram-shee, grahm-shee] / ˈgræm ʃi, ˈgrɑm ʃi /

noun

1. Antonio 1891–1937, Italian political leader and theorist: a founder of the Italian Communist Party 1921.

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Gramsci British  

/ ˈɡramʃɪ /

noun

1. Antonio. 1891–1937, Italian politician and Marxist theorist: founder (1921) of the Italian Communist party. His important works were written during his imprisonment (1926–37) by the Fascists

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Example Sentences

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

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

Shahdad was also a "compulsive preacher" of Baloch rights, the student friend said - and the book Prison Notebooks, by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, was "his bible".

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2020

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