Gramsci's Politics - Hardcover

Sassoon, Anne Showstack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816616477 ISBN 13: 9780816616473

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 1987

Synopsis

xxi, 297 pages ; 23 cm. Contents: I. The years in Turin -- Revolution as creation -- The ordine nuovo -- II. The struggle for a new type of party -- Organisation as a political problem -- Gramsci's new emphasis on the party -- The need to forge a revolutionary party adequate to its task -- The organisation of the party -- The relationship between the party and the class -- III. Gramsci's concept of the party and politics in the prison notebooks -- The state as 'Hegemony fortified by coercion' -- The historical bloc -- The lessons of the Italian bourgeois revolution -- The conquest of hegemony by a subaltern class -- The organisers of hegemony: the intellectuals -- Intellectuals and the political party -- The modern prince -- Democratic centralism versus bureaucratic centralism -- The party as a vanguard: the relationship with the masses -- The analysis of the conjuncture and the argument against economism -- The war of position: a strategy for the bourgeoisie in the war of position -- The party as the decisive element -- Conclusion: the party, the state and democracy.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0816616477
• ISBN 13: 9780816616473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 297