Antonio Gramsci met a pretty tragic end. Jailed by the Mussolini regime in Italy for 11 years and eventually just withered away from illness. Died too young just like so many victims of fascism.
Western media still hate him because his theory (if they remember him that is), one Italian fucker even wrote a book that Gramsci turned marxism into fascism and thus every modern marxist is a fascist. Funnily enough they seem to recognise importance of Gramsci theory more than ultras and dogmatists.
Antonio Gramsci met a pretty tragic end. Jailed by the Mussolini regime in Italy for 11 years and eventually just withered away from illness. Died too young just like so many victims of fascism.
Managed to go on an absolute tear with the prison notebooks though, even under surveillance, and deliver excellent analysis of culture and hegemony.
Western media still hate him because his theory (if they remember him that is), one Italian fucker even wrote a book that Gramsci turned marxism into fascism and thus every modern marxist is a fascist. Funnily enough they seem to recognise importance of Gramsci theory more than ultras and dogmatists.
Gramsci is one of the most bafflingly misunderstood or misconstrued figures in the Marxist canon precisely due to the nature of the theory he wrote.