Antonio Gramsci

I have been for the most part skeptical about whether Louis Althusser’s essay on state apparatuses accomplishes anything not previously explained in more humanistic and less functionalist terms by Antonio Gramsci. Indeed, although there appears to be a clear divergence between the two insofar as Gramsci associates ideological work with civil society whereas Althusser locates it in the state, even this distinction is not as stark in light of certain passages in Selections from the Prison Notebooks

Antonio Gramsci’s ideology adheres to the fundamental re-orientation of Marxist thought applied to the revolutionary change in the context of 20th Century Western European society. His discourse on the dynamics of class struggle and the power of dominating institutions, forms the foundation of a distinct cultural critique of the causes and consequences of the elite’s maintenance of hegemony (dominance) — that is, through the consent of the mass of people as a result of the ruling classes propagation

For centuries many significant people had huge impacts on society and how they should be managed. Antonio Gramsci had a unique way of thinking that had a specific manner to determine what is necessary for a successful revolution during the industrialization era. He had ideas and questions about how the ones in power sustain their control. The Islamic State is a self proclaimed modern government on the rise and their views on laws and military authority has spread tremendously. Gramsci’s concept has

things they do not want to do or wish to do. In that way it can be said that power is understood as possession or as something owned by those in power. As power is theorized in many different ways by great thinkers such as Michael Foucault and Antonio Gramsci, this essay will look at how Gramsci’s conception of power is different from and/or complementary to Foucault’s conception of power. It will show as to whether there is space for resistance in either of their notions of power as well as how they

interpretation of Gramsci. My approach aims to avoid reductionism, intellectualism, and one-sidedness, as well as the traditional practice of conflating his political thought with his active political life. I focus on the political theory of the Prison Notebooks and compare it with that of Gaetano Mosca. I regard Mosca as a classic exponent of democratic elitism, according to which elitism and democracy are not opposed to each other but are rather mutually interdependent. Placing Gramsci in the same tradition

anthropologist, Antonio Gramsci, develops his own theories in an attempt to rationalize why communism is not happening and why the revolution never occurred. It is critical to acknowledge that Gramsci’s work was written under punitive circumstance, since he was imprisoned my Mussolini for being a Communist supporter (Douglas). He was forced to censor his work and write in various tenses to conceal his attitudes towards Mussolini’s regime. Consequently, his writings are compromised, making

ritual ceremony, “chanting” in the Buddhism culture, displaying how the religion is used for concealing relations of power within this definite culture. Through this examination, I will use the theories of Karl Marx (religion as ideology) and Antonio Gramsci (hegemony being concept of power), to support the display of how the power distributes religion. By relating to the definition of power, I argue that, for the members of this community, ‘power’ is about ease and security- no inequality. The

AUTHOR] Antonio Gramsci was an Italian communist scholar, journalist, and activist who served as a deputy member of the Italian Parliament, representing the Italian Communist Party (PCI), which he helped to establish in 1923. In the wake of the triumph of Mussolini and the Italian fascists in 1926, Gramsci was sentenced to 20 years in prison in order to prevent his thought from spreading (Crehan 2003:17). From 1926 to 1937, when he was released from prison only to die one week later, Gramsci composed

The Influence of Identity on the Study of Multicultural Literature A statement of the problem that the student will explore in the comprehensive exam: I am in my sixth year of teaching in an interdisciplinary freshman program at the secondary level whose curriculum centers on the exploration of the socio-historical development of race and racism in the United States. At the heart of the curriculum between World Studies and English is Marc Aronson’s text, Race: A History Beyond Black & White. While

authority, especially of one nation over another” (Callahan, 2004, p. 12). In other words, the United States can be seen as the dominate nation over all other nations. This concept was first mentioned in Notes on the Southern Question (1926) by Antonio Gramsci and was defined as “a system of class alliance in which a ‘hegemonic class’ exercised political leadership over ‘subaltern classes’ by ‘winning them over’” (Ramos Jr., 1982). The logic of hegemony, as it relates to American foreign policy, is