diff --git a/content/author/gramsci.md b/content/author/gramsci.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1352516 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/author/gramsci.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ ++++ +title = "Antonio Francesco Gramsci" ++++ + +Antonio Francesco Gramsci (22 or 23 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime. + +Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis during his imprisonment. His Prison Notebooks are considered a highly original contribution to 20th-century political theory. Gramsci drew insights from varying sources – not only other Marxists but also thinkers such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Vilfredo Pareto, Georges Sorel and Benedetto Croce. The notebooks cover a wide range of topics, including Italian history and nationalism, the French Revolution, fascism, Taylorism and Fordism, civil society, folklore, religion and high and popular culture. + +(from [Monoskop](https://monoskop.org/Antonio_Gramsci)) \ No newline at end of file