Selections from political writings, 1921-1926 Book

This volume is the second of two that makes available the writings of Antonio Gramsci, one of the most outstanding Marxist thinkers of Western Europe. Events chronicled in these selections include the momentous years of the foundation of the Italian Communist Party (led by Gramsci from 1924 until his arrest in 1926), the ascendancy of the Soviet Union as the authoritative force in the Communist International, and the rise and eventual triumph of fascism that forced Italian communism into nearly twenty years of illegality, and ultimately, Gramsci into prison. The crucial concerns of the articles, reports and letters are of central relevance to contemporary Marxism: the functioning of working-class power, the strategy of the united struggle against capitalism and against fascism, and the implications of proletarian internationalism.