Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 07:26:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gerald Levy <glevy-AT-pratt.edu>
Subject: Re:  Re: AUT: why gramsci


>                 please give me some examples of what you mean by the
> contradictory  and changing praxis of  Gramsci. bob brown

I was thinking most especially of how his relation to the leadership of
the Italian Communist Party and Stalinism affected his evaluation of the
class struggle in Italy. After all, he didn't die until 1937. By that time
the PCI and the USSR had changed considerably in character from what they
had been earlier on. Thus Gramsci should be held accountable for not
speaking and writing against Stalinism (including the Stalinism within the
PCI) and Stalinist policies (e.g. on the popular front, social
democracy, fascism, etc.) which led to disasterous results in Italy and
elsewhere.  Although he wrote much about the role of "intellectuals" it
Italy, his own silence on these matters set a very poor example for how
others should behave.

None of the foregoing suggests, though, that there isn't much of a
positive nature that can also be learned from Gramsci.

Jerry




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