{"id":13921,"date":"2020-02-18T15:02:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T23:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=13921"},"modified":"2020-02-18T15:02:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T23:02:20","slug":"bio-antonio-gramsci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/18\/bio-antonio-gramsci\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio:  Antonio Gramsci"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"220\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gramsci.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gramsci.png 220w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gramsci-106x150.png 106w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Gramsci-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonio_Gramsci#mw-head\">J<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Antonio Francesco Gramsci<\/strong>&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_English\">UK<\/a>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/English\">\/\u02c8\u0261r\u00e6m\u0283i\/<\/a>,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonio_Gramsci#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_English\">US<\/a>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/English\">\/\u02c8\u0261r\u0251\u02d0m\u0283i\/<\/a>,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonio_Gramsci#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;Italian:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/Italian\">[an\u02c8t\u0254\u02d0njo fran\u02c8t\u0283esko \u02c8\u0261ram\u0283i]<\/a>&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/8a\/It-Antonio_Gramsci.ogg\">listen<\/a>); 22 January 1891 \u2013 27 April 1937) was an Italian&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marxism\">Marxist<\/a>&nbsp;philosopher and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Communist\">communist<\/a>&nbsp;politician. He wrote on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_theory\">political theory<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sociology\">sociology<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linguistics\">linguistics<\/a>. He attempted to break from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economic_determinism\">economic determinism<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Classical_Marxism\">traditional Marxist<\/a>&nbsp;thought and so is considered a key&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neo-Marxism\">neo-Marxist<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonio_Gramsci#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;He was a founding member and one-time leader of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Communist_Party_of_Italy\">Communist Party of Italy<\/a>&nbsp;and was imprisoned by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benito_Mussolini\">Benito Mussolini<\/a>&#8216;s Fascist regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis during his imprisonment. His&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prison_Notebooks\">Prison Notebooks<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;are considered a highly original contribution to 20th century&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_theory\">political theory<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonio_Gramsci#cite_note-Sassoon-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;Gramsci drew insights from varying sources \u2013 not only other Marxists but also thinkers such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli\">Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vilfredo_Pareto\">Vilfredo Pareto<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges_Sorel\">Georges Sorel<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benedetto_Croce\">Benedetto Croce<\/a>. The notebooks cover a wide range of topics, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Italy\">Italian history<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italian_nationalism\">nationalism<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_French_Revolution\">the French Revolution<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fascism\">fascism<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fordism\">Fordism<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_society\">civil society<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folklore\">folklore<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religion\">religion<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_culture\">high<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Popular_culture\">popular culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gramsci is best known for his theory of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cultural_hegemony\">cultural hegemony<\/a>, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class \u2013 the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bourgeoisie\">bourgeoisie<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 use cultural institutions to maintain power in capitalist societies. The bourgeoisie, in Gramsci&#8217;s view, develops a hegemonic culture using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ideology\">ideology<\/a>\u00a0rather than violence, economic force, or coercion. Hegemonic culture propagates its own values and norms so that they become the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Common_sense\">common sense<\/a>&#8221; values of all and thus maintain the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Status_quo\">status quo<\/a><\/em>. Hegemonic power is therefore used to maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than coercive power using force to maintain order. This cultural hegemony is produced and reproduced by the dominant class through the institutions that form the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Base_and_superstructure\">superstructure<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More at:  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonio_Gramsci\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonio_Gramsci<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJ Antonio Francesco Gramsci&nbsp;(UK:&nbsp;\/\u02c8\u0261r\u00e6m\u0283i\/,[2]&nbsp;US:&nbsp;\/\u02c8\u0261r\u0251\u02d0m\u0283i\/,[3]&nbsp;Italian:&nbsp;[an\u02c8t\u0254\u02d0njo fran\u02c8t\u0283esko \u02c8\u0261ram\u0283i]&nbsp;(listen); 22 January 1891 \u2013 27 April 1937) was an Italian&nbsp;Marxist&nbsp;philosopher and&nbsp;communist&nbsp;politician. He wrote on&nbsp;political theory,&nbsp;sociology&nbsp;and&nbsp;linguistics. He attempted to break from the&nbsp;economic determinism&nbsp;of&nbsp;traditional Marxist&nbsp;thought and so is considered a key&nbsp;neo-Marxist.[4]&nbsp;He was a founding member and one-time leader of the&nbsp;Communist Party of&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/18\/bio-antonio-gramsci\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13923,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13921\/revisions\/13923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}