Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist and politician, born in Ales, Sardinia, in 1891. He co-founded the Italian Communist Party in January 1921 and led it before being arrested by Benito Mussolini's Fascist government in November 1926; he remained imprisoned for most of the rest of his life. During his eleven years in prison he filled more than thirty notebooks with roughly three thousand pages of political and cultural analysis, published after his death as the Prison Notebooks. His best known contribution to social theory is the concept of cultural hegemony, the argument that a ruling class maintains power less through direct coercion than by shaping the cultural institutions, values and common sense a society treats as natural. He died in Rome in 1937.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionDeveloped the theory of cultural hegemony, describing how a ruling class secures power through cultural and ideological consent rather than force alone, articulated across the Prison Notebooks written during his imprisonment under Mussolini. 1 Notable Work Antonio Gramsci
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Antonio Gramsci developed the concept of cultural hegemony in his Prison Notebooks to explain how a ruling class secures consent rather than relying on coercion alone.
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Antonio Francesco Gramsci (UK: GRAM-shee, US: GRAHM-shee; Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo franˈtʃesko ˈɡramʃi] ; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist and politician.
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Antonio Francesco Gramsci (UK: GRAM-shee, US: GRAHM-shee; Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo franˈtʃesko ˈɡramʃi] ; 22 January 1891-27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist and politician. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. A vocal critic of Benito Mussolini and fascism, he was imprisoned in 1926, and remained in prison until shortly before his death in 1937. During his imprisonment, Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and analysis. His Prison Notebooks are considered a highly original contribution to 20th-century political theory.
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Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony, which describes how the state and ruling capitalist class-the bourgeoisie-use cultural institutions to maintain wealth and power in capitalist societies.
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