Abstract

Despite its inauspicious title, this book is not an Althusserianization of Gramsci. Macciocchi is not the least concerned with periodizing Gramsci, establishing at what point he became a scientist of the revolution, or with reinterpreting Gramsci from the viewpoint of the present strategy of the Italian (or French) Communist Party. On the contrary: she is primarily interested in vindicating the historical Gramsci from the dogmatic stranglehold of party orthodoxy that has hitherto marketed him as the theoretical missing link between the glory of the Bolshevik revolution and the gloomy bureaucratism of its outcome. Then, why such a title? The Althusserian form contradicts the polemical content.