Antonio Gramsci and the Revolution that Failed

1978 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 479
Author(s):  
John M. Cammett ◽  
Martin Clark
Keyword(s):  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
The Revolution

Antonio Gramsci and the Revolution That Failed

Telos ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 1977 (32) ◽  
pp. 241-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Luke
Keyword(s):  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
The Revolution

Gramsci, the Via Italiana, and the Classical Marxist‐Leninist Approach to Revolution

1979 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 66-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph V. Femia
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Marxist Approach ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Advanced Capitalist ◽  
The Revolution

IT IS NOW COMMON (AND QUITE CORRECT) TO PRAISE ANTONIO Gramsci as the first Marxist theorist to understand that the revolution in Western Europe must deviate sharply from the strategic path taken by the Bolsheviks in Russia. With characteristic disdain for old and rigid formulae, he pointed to the crucial differences between advanced capitalist countries and the Russian Empire of 1917, and he attempted in his prison notebooks (Quaderni) to develop criteria of orientation and action appropriate to modern circumstances. What he offered was a new What is to be done? for the developed West, a fundamental reassessment and revision of the accepted Marxist approach to revolution. The nature of this enterprise has prompted many – critics and admirers alike – to lay emphasis on the tie between Gramsci and Togliatti-ism. Gramsci put forward ideas, it is claimed, whose logic is manifest in the ‘Italian (read “constitutional”, “parliamentary”, “democratic”, “pacific”) road to socialism’. It is now casually assumed in many circles that he was the ideological progenitor of what has come to be known as Eurocommunism, the increasingly influential body of doctrines that purports to marry liberalism and Marxism. In the following pages, this assumption, and other related ones, will be closely examined and evaluated.

scholarly journals The Architecture of ‘Passive Revolution’: Society, State and Space in Modern Mexico

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADAM DAVID MORTON
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
The Political ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Spatial Ordering ◽  
Passive Revolution ◽  
The Revolution

AbstractThis article analyses the political economy of Henri Lefebvre's concept of ‘state space’ with specific attention directed towards the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City, completed in 1938. The conditions of modernity can be generally related to the spatial ordering of urban landscapes within capital cities conjoining the specifics of national identity with imitative processes. Antonio Gramsci captured such sentiments through his understanding of the condition of ‘passive revolution’. The key contribution of this article is to draw attention to forms ofeveryday passive revolution, recognising both cosmopolitan and vernacular aspects of modern architecture in relation to the Monument to the Revolution. A focus on the Monument to the Revolution thus reveals specific spatial practices of everyday passive revolution relevant to the codification of architecture and the political economy of modern state formation in Mexico. These issues are revealed, literally, as vital expressions in the architecture of everyday passive revolution in modern Mexico.

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