Antonio Gramsci
Power rests on cultural hegemony, not just force.
"Indifferenti" (I hate the indifferent) essential
Article signed A. G., at 25, in La città futura, a one-issue paper of the Piedmont Socialist Youth Federation (11 February 1917). Reprinted later in other socialist papers.
The Revolution against "Capital" essential
An article on the Bolshevik revolution (Avanti!, 24 November 1917): the will of men can defy the "canons" of historical materialism.
Articles in L'Ordine Nuovo
The Turin weekly he founded with friends, centred on factory councils. Not yet in our corpus.
Some Themes of the Southern Question
An unfinished essay, cut short by his arrest in November 1926, published in 1930. Not yet in our corpus.
Letters from Prison essential
Private letters to his sister-in-law Tania, his wife Giulia, his mother, his brothers, his sons, under prison censorship. Published in 1947, after his death. We quote the Caprioglio and Fubini edition (1965).
Prison Notebooks essential
29 notebooks written in prison, never published or revised by him: notes, first drafts and recopied versions. Published after Gramsci's death, first by theme (Platone and Togliatti, 1948-1951), then in order of writing by Valentino Gerratana (1975). We quote the Gerratana edition ("Q 12, §1" = notebook 12, note 1), from an unofficial transcription: we have not proofread it. The French extracts (Éditions sociales) are thematic selections, used only when they carry the same reference.