From: "Silvano Cacciari" <mcsilvan-AT-tin.it> Subject: R: Public Intellectuals Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:49:06 +0100 > When Gramsci goes into Marxist mode, he may speak truly, but > the language, intent, and meaning, of Marx was violence and revolution which > might have led to "Social Democracy", and some (not me) would claim it was > achieved in the USSR, China and Cuba. -I'm Italian and just a little "gramscist" like more people of my intellectual generation. I believe simply you dont know the emargination that the hardliners of italian communist party reserved for Gramsci. Gramsci was in jail isolated by the party for desire of Moscow. Many Gramsci writings was "cleaned" by stalinists censors in late '30s. Anyway, late sixties Gramsci was an intellectual resource for the new left in Italy, in Europe and in Us too. It was a marxist and not stalinist Left. Today I think is Gramsci not more like a classic even if american authors like Mike Davis utilise him analyzing the present. bests Silvano Cacciari Universite' Paris VIII
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