He was a philosopher, marxist theorist, political and italian journalist. He was born in 1891 and he spent almost all his life on prision, because he was a communist militant in Mussolini's times. Almost all his works were wrote in jail, like The Prison notebooks and other ideas of marxist theory, he also wrote Historical materialism and the philosophy of Benedetto Croce (1948), The intellectual and cultural organization (1949), etc. I like him because he was very clever and he suscribed to materialism. He developed concepts like hegemony or hegemonic bloc for explanning the domination of certain social class in society, starting from the historical materialism of Marx. He was also General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party. In 1937, Antonio Gramsci acquired full freedom, but he was very sick, so he spent six days at hospital and died because he had a cerebral hemorrhage. His brother told that before he died, he converted to catholicism.
Gramsci is one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century contributed significantly to the Marxist theory giving a cultural emphasis, that gives rise to anthropologists and our work on social stratification.
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Gramsci is a great Marxist. He opened the theory to new limits and his contribution is invaluable to anthropology.
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"Almost all his works were wrote in jail, like The Prison notebooks"
" His brother told that before he died, he converted to catholicism."
2 points.
Paula