Antonio Gramsci
1891 – 1937 Italian philosopher, Marxist theorist, politician
Italian Marxist thinker who developed the theory of cultural hegemony while imprisoned by the Fascists.
- Religion
- Marxist and atheist.
- Affiliations
- Italian Communist Party, which he helped found and led until his arrest.
Antonio Gramsci co-founded the Italian Communist Party and was jailed by Mussolini's regime in 1926. In his Prison Notebooks he argued that the ruling class holds power as much through cultural hegemony, its worldview accepted as common sense, as through force, and that change requires a long war of position within a society's institutions. His ideas became central to later Marxist and cultural theory, and were later distorted by the cultural Marxism conspiracy theory.
In the timeline
- 1929 – 1935 Gramsci and the theory of cultural hegemony mentioned