On the 135th Anniversary
of the Birth of Antonio Gramsci
On the occasion of the 135th anniversary of his birth, we present a text ( a 23-page document, A5 size, in PDF format) by Nuova Egemonia that examines the continuing relevance of the Southern Question and the Sardinian Question
Gramsci was born on 22 January 1891 in Ales, Sardinia, and died on 27 April 1937 in Rome. His death was caused by the fascist regime. Gramsci died as a consequence of the prolonged imprisonment to which he was subjected and of the absence of adequate medical care in the face of his increasingly severe health conditions. It was a slow assassination, an unspeakable crime committed against the Italian and international proletariat.
Gramsci, effectively the founder of the Communist Party of Italy (PCd’I), was the greatest Italian Marxist-Leninist, a comprehensive leader of the proletariat, a revolutionary cadre of the highest level, who developed a specific theoretical framework for the proletarian revolution in Italy. Gramsci’s thought must be understood as the expression of the concretization of Marxism-Leninism of the Third International within the Italian reality. [read more]
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