File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2001/lyotard.0102, message 26


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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