International Gramsci Journalnal

The International Gramsci Journal is the electronic journal of the International Gramsci Society. The journal twice-yearly publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles about Antonio Gramsci's life and work, the influence of his thinking on social, political, economic and cultural history and the application of his concepts to contemporary life. Submissions may be in English, Italian or Spanish.

Number 1 - 2008

Obituary for John Cammett: Organic Intellectual
Alastair Davidson
John Cammett, died on July 30, 2008. Internationally known as a pioneering scholar of Antonio Gramsci, he studied the impact of Gramsci on the Italian communist movement, which became the most significant aspect of his life’s work.

Gramsci, Class and Post-Marxism
Mike Donaldson
Often Gramsci is presented in the social sciences, particularly by post-Marxists, as a precursor of and justification for abandoning the concept of class. This is incorrect. This article outlines Gramsci’s ideas of class, class composition, formation and alliance which Gramsci based on a detailed, accurate reconnaissance of the Italy of his time.

Contribuciones De Gramsci Al Cambio Social En Chile: De La Declinación De La Ideología Pos Moderna A La Re-Emergencia De La Izquierda
Rene Leal Hurtado
Este trabajo argumenta que las teorías social demócratas y pos modernas han retardado las posibilidades de cambio social y han sido sustento ideológico del neo liberalismo en Chile. Sin embargo, el aumento de la lucha social muestra una creciente declinación de su influencia social y de su legitimidad política. Constatada esta declinación, el análisis de clases y el concepto de hegemonía de Gramsci que debatieron con el socialismo pos moderno, re-orienta el debate de la izquierda en torno a la lucha social y la construcción de un proyecto de superación del neo liberalismo.

Antonio Gramsci and Fund of Knowledge: Organic Ethnographers of Knowledge in Workers' Centres
Joseph P. Zanoni
Participants of workers’ centres, led by organic ethnographers of knowledge, will be engaged in a critique of spontaneous funds of knowledge and the development of judgment criteria to guide workers from Gramsci’s conception of common sense to good sense in the discovery of knowledge through praxis.

Security Intelligence and Left Intellectuals: Australia, 1970
Rowan Cahill
In 1970 the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) identified the ideas of Antonio Gramsci as one of the root causes of dissent, opposition and cultural ferment. This document is an example of ASIO’s concern about Marxist intellectuals and their Gramscian links.

Book Reviews

Hegemony and Education. Gramsci, Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy Revisited Deb J. Hill, Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc, Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth, 2007
Reviewed by Mike Donaldson, Sociology, University of Wollongong.

Del Gobierno del Pueblo a la Rebelión Popular: Historia del Partido Comunista 1970–1990. Francisco Herreros, Editorial Siglo xxi, Santiago, Chile, 2005.
Reviewed by Rene Leal Hurtado, SIT, Santiago.