Antonio Gramsci Audiobook By Giuseppe Fiori, Tom Nairn - translator cover art

Antonio Gramsci

Life of a Revolutionary

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Antonio Gramsci

By: Giuseppe Fiori, Tom Nairn - translator
Narrated by: Tim Bruce
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Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of the Italian Communist Party in his early 30s, was arrested by Mussolini’s police in 1927, and remained imprisoned until shortly before his death 10 years later. The posthumous publication of his Prison Notebooks established him as a major thinker whose influence continues to increase.

Fiori’s biography enlarges upon the facts of Gramsci’s life through personal accounts, and through Gramsci’s own writings to relatives and friends. In relating Gramsci’s growth as a political leader and theorist to his private experience, it offers acute insights into his involvement in the factory councils movement. It examines his relationship with political opponents, including Mussolini, and with his comrades within the Communist Party before and during Gramsci’s imprisonment. It is an approach which seeks to explicate, as well as underscore, the substantial achievement of one of the most important figures in Western Marxism.

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Admittedly, I knew very little about Antonio Gramsci, but his name came up in conversation, and I felt the need to learn more. You have any interest in socialism or more so in Marxism, Gramsci is someone who you should get to know. He led a short life, thanks to fascism, but lasted long enough to put forth a number of divergent and still relevant theories. Worth checking out for sure.
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Antonio Gramsci

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Loved the letters pieced together in chronological order. Almost as if you heard him talk face to face with who he wrote his letters to.

Great story of Gramsci’s personal life

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This an excellent introduction to the life and work of one of the most important thinkers of the last century. It gives context to Gramsci’s struggles against fascism and helps clarify the environment where he operated. Great place to start while reading his published works or the prison notebooks.

Well written and well narrated

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Not what I expected. Looking for his strategy on changing a culture into socialism

Socialism

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a complete void of what made this man great. intolrably boring and trivial expose on everything outside of his great political thoughts.

nothing about the realan

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