Gramsci

[gram-shee, grahm-shee]

noun

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

Gramsci

/ 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

Example Sentences

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.”

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

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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.

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A century before the military takeover, deforestation of the island by Italian railways and companies left Sardinia “literally razed as if by a barbarian invasion,” declared the legendary Sardinian journalist and Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci in 1919.

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But a more trenchant quote for our times might come from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, written about a decade after Yeats’ poem: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”

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