Date:
6 June, 2010 - 20:00
Location:
67 Grayson House, Radnor St, London EC1V 3SS (near Old St Tube)
Description:
1. Who was Gramsci?
Reading: summary of Gramsci's life and ideas
"Some of the ideas Gramsci would bring in to the battle to shape the newe Italian Communist Party had already been shaped in his editing of the paper Ordine Nuovo. Gramsci saw the common run of socialist journalism in his time as agitational, simplistic, bombastic, economistic. Ordine Nuovo was different, much more reflective and 'highbrow'. He conceived of it as "a communist cultural review".