Gramsci and the Struggle for Democratic Communism

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvMichael Wayne,UK) Wayne, Michael (Brunel University

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With its authoritarian distortions, the Marxism of the 20th century sundered the connections between the practice of Communism, and its essentially democratic ethos.This book reconstructs those vital threads by turning to the work of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. In the wake of the rise of neoliberalism and the new global order that it ushered in, Gramsci and the Struggle for Democratic Communism asks: what form of political rule can facilitate the transition away from capitalism’s increasingly apocalyptic end game?To answer this question, Wayne puts Gramsci into dialogue with key thinkers from his own historical period, from Marx, Lenin and Trotsky through to John Dewey and Walter Lippmann. Wayne argues that Gramsci’s contribution to Marxism helps clarify the political inheritance that class democracies bequeath a revolutionary transition. Wayne then puts Gramsci into a critical dialogue with contemporary thinkers such as Stuart Hall, Ernesto Laclau and Antonio Negri, analysing such crisis situations as Britain and Venezuela under neoliberalism. In the final chapter he develops the concept of ‘elongated dual power’ to explore how revolutionary change can be reconciled with democratic principles as the old choice between barbarism or revolutionary change looms once more on the horizon.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-04-16
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt626 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350447097

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Part One: Gramsci in his Own Time1. Gramsci and Communism's Democratic Deficit2. Marx and Gramsci on Nineteenth Century Capitalist State Formations3. Lenin and Gramsci on Economism and Hegemony4. Trotsky and Gramsci on Politics and the Culture of Everyday Life5. Gramsci and the Philosophers of the Western Public SphereInterregnumPart Two: Gramsci in Our Time6. Gramsci, Stuart Hall and Thatcherism 7. Gramsci and the British Political Cultures of Neo-Liberalism8. Gramsci and the Venezuelan Revolution9. Gramsci and the Contradictions of the Coming RevolutionIndex

Gramsci is famous as the thinker who urged Marxism to come to grips with the question of the political, of institutionality and organisation, of consensus and hegemony. But as this book persuasively demonstrates, the thought of Gramsci also offers a way to rescue and re-imagine democracy in times of acute democratic crisis. Vis-a-vis a declining capitalist democracy which is becoming increasingly illiberal and the embarrassment of a Soviet-style communism which ultimately frustrated working people’s aspirations, Gramsci’s thought invites us to move beyond our present ideological stalemate, and actively work to reconcile social justice and freedom, communism and democracy. This is an essential reading for all those who want to learn more about the relevance of Gramsci for contemporary society and its manifold political dilemmas.