Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher, journalist, and socialist politician, lived at the beginning of this century in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy. His work, partly developed in the long imprisonment imposed on him by Mussolini, constitutes a political theory that is considered as one of the great contemporary philosophical contributions to the critic and the social fight for the transformation of the capitalist society.
The starting point for his theory has as genesis Marx’s conception concerning the development and operation of the capitalist society, composed of the contradictory duality between dominant class and subordinate class, between possessors and the poor, and between the capitalists and the proletariat. The private ownership both of the earth and of the means of production of the material life (base or infrastructure of the society) has, in the superstructure, i.e., in the ideological and spiritual sphere of the society, a direct correspondence. Gramsci agrees with Marx in...
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Moraes, R.d.A. (2015). Gramsci and Culture. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_323-1
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