Gramsci and Trotsky

In June 1930 Alfonso Leonetti, Paolo Ravazzoli, and Pietro Tresso – three of the eight members of the Executive of the Italian Communist Party – were expelled.

The revolutionary socialist as democratic philosopher. (Review of “The Gramscian Moment”).

Click here to read the review, and click here to download it as pdf. The review also includes a list of links to other reviews of “The Gramscian Moment”.

“The Gramscian Moment”: an interview with Peter Thomas

Click here to read an interview with Peter Thomas about his book “The Gramscian Moment”, or click here to download the interview as pdf.

Anderson and Gramsci

Peter Thomas’s book The Gramscian Moment gives over its second chapter to a discussion and critique of Perry Anderson’s famous study from 1976, The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci. Large parts of later chapters are also polemic against Anderson.

London conference on Gramsci

A conference on Gramsci in London on 28 May 2010 showed that recent research has fatally undermined interpretations of Gramsci as a “post-Marxist” or loyal forerunner of “Eurocommunism”.

Discussing Gramsci: pluralism and hegemony

Alessandro Carlucci, organiser of a forthcoming conference in London on “New Insights into Gramsci’s Life and Work”, spoke with Martin Thomas at a London AWL forum on 18 March about the ideas of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Report from Martin Thomas:

The other shore of Gramsci’s bridge: Gramsci and “post-Marxism”

Notes by Martin Thomas.

Gramsci’s life and ideas

Notes by Martin Thomas.

Talk by Peter Thomas on the ideas of Gramsci

Peter Thomas is a Marxist writer and author of The Gramscian Moment. He gave a presentation about his research into the thought of Antonio Gramsci at Workers’ Liberty’s Ideas for Freedom winter event in London, 28-29 November 2009.

Gramsci on materialism and idealism

Gramsci frequently distances himself from, so to speak, “excessive” materialism in Marxist discussion, and indicates that there is much to be said for “idealism”.