What the future fortunes of Gramsci s] writings will be, we cannot know. However, his permanence is already sufficiently sure, and justifies the historical study of his international reception. The present collection of studies is an indispensable foundation for this. Eric Hobsbawm, from the preface

Antonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the world s greatest cultural critics. Antonio A. Santucci is perhaps the world s preeminent Gramsci scholar. Monthly Review Press is proud to publish, for the first time in English, Santucci s masterful intellectual biography of the...