Michael Wayne is Professor of Screen Media at Brunel University, UK. He is author of Marx's Das Kapital For Beginners (2012) and Marxism and Media Studies: Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends (2003).

• 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.

Michael Wayne is Professor of Screen Media at Brunel University, UK. He is author of Marx's Das Kapital For Beginners (2012) and Marxism and Media Studies: Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends (2003).

• 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.

Michael Wayne is Professor of Screen Media at Brunel University, UK. He is author of Marx's Das Kapital For Beginners (2012) and Marxism and Media Studies: Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends (2003).

• 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.