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

In this spirit, I will close, a bit soberly, with a famous line from the Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks: “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.”

From Slate

What was it that Gramsci said?

From Slate

The Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci defined a crisis as a historical period in which “the old is dying and the new cannot be born.”

From Salon

Within this space between, Gramsci argued, “morbid phenomena of the most varied kind come to pass.”

From Salon

And beyond that, the kind of prison literature that helped inform me, everything from Antonio Gramsci's prison letters and notes to George Jackson's letters as well, helped to show me and even beyond that, just like Malcolm X, his autobiography as someone who was incarcerated.

From Salon