Antonio Gramsci

Further Selections from the Prison Notebooks

       

The Church as an Institution and the Clergy as Intellectuals

 Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Catholic Social Policy, the Hierarchy and Popular Religion in Italy

Religion, the Lottery and the Opium of Poverty

Concordats and Church-State Relations

Past and Present [4] Religion in Schools

Pre-Prison Political Writings 1910-1926

1916

Men or machines? (Avanti!, 24 December)
Newspapers and the Workers  (Avanti!, 22 December 1916)

1917

Notes on The Russian Revolution (Grido del Popolo, 29 April)
The Russian Maximalists (Grido del Popolo, 28 July)
The Revolution Against 'Capital' (Avanti!, 24 December)
Character  (Grido del Popolo, 3 March 1917)

1921

Caporetto and Vittorio Veneto (L'Ordine Nuovo, 28 January)
War is war (L'Ordine Nuovo, 31 January)
Worker´s control (L'Ordine Nuovo, 10 February)
The general confederation of labour (L'Ordine Nuovo, 25 February)
Real dialectics (L'Ordine Nuovo, 3 March)
Officialdom (L'Ordine Nuovo, 4 March)
Unions and councils (L'Ordine Nuovo, 5 March)
Italy and Spain (L'Ordine Nuovo, 11 March)
Socialists and communists (L'Ordine Nuovo, 12 March)
England and Russia (L'Ordine Nuovo, 18 March)
The italian parliament (L'Ordine Nuovo, 24 March)
The Communists and the Elections
The Elections and Freedom
Elemental Forces
The Old Order in Turin
Socialists and Fascists
Reactionary Subversiveness
Referendum
Leaders and Masses
Bonomi
The "Arditi del Popolo"
The Development of Fascism
Against Terror
The Two Fascisms
The Agrarian Struggle in Italy
Those Mainly Responsible
Parties and Masses
Masses and Leaders
One Year 

1922

The "Alleanza del Lavoro"
A Crisis within the Crisis
Lessons

1924

Editorial: March 1924
"Leader"
Against Pessimism
Gramsci to Togliatti, Scoccimarro, Leonetti, etc. (21 March 1924)
The Programme of L'Ordine Nuovo
Problems of Today and Tomorrow
Gramsci to Zino Zini (2 April 1924)
Gramsci to Togliatti, Scoccimarro, etc. (5 April 1924)
The Como Conference: Resolutions
Gramsci's Intervention at the Como Conference
The Italian Crisis
Democracy and Fascism
The Fall of Fascism

1925

Report to the Central Committee: 6 February 1925
Speech to the Italian parliament, 16 May 1925
Introduction to the First Course of the Party School
The Internal Situation in our Party and the Tasks of the Forthcoming Congress
Elements of the Situation

1926

The Italian situation and the tasks of the PCI (Lyons, January 1926)
The party's first five years (L'Unita, 24 February 1926)
A study of the Italian situation (Report to the 2-3 August 1926 meeting of the Party's Executive Commitee.)
The peasants and the dictatorship of the proletariat (L'Unità, 17 September 1926)
Once again on the organic capacities of the working class (L'Unità, 1 October 1926)
We and the Republican Concentration (L'Unità, 13 October 1926)
Some aspects of the southern question (Unfinished, October 1926)

Prison Notebooks 1929-1935

Contents of Notebooks

Hegel and associationism
Military art and political art
The Intellectuals

The Intellectuals
On Education
The Modern Prince 
State and Civil Society 
The Study of Philosophy

Structure and Superstructure [i]
Structure and Superstructure [ii]
Structure and Superstructures [iii]
The Concept of ‘Historical Bloc’
Ethico-Political History
Ethico-Political History and Hegemony
Political Ideologies
Ideologies
Validity of Ideologies
Analysis of Situations: Relations of Force
Some Theoretical and Practical Aspects of ‘Economism’ [also in The Modern Prince]
Observations on Certain Aspects of the Structure of Political Parties in Periods of Organic Crisis

War of Position and War of Manoeuvre
War of Position and War of Manoeuvre or Frontal War

Agitation and Propaganda
Caesarism

The Problem of Political Leadership in the Formation and Development of the Modern State in Italy
Rationalization of the Demographic Composition of Europe
Some Aspects of the Sexual Question
Financial Autarky and Industry
‘Animality’ and Industrialism
Rationalization of Production and Work
Taylorism and the Mechanization of the Worker

Philosophy: Some preliminary reference points

Collections of Gramsci’s Writings

Selections from Political Writings (1921-1926)

I SOCIALISM AND FASCISM

1 Caporetto and Vittorio Veneto
2 War is War
3 Workers' Control
4 The General Confederation of Labour
5 Real Dialectics
6 Officialdom
7 Unions and Councils
8 Italy and Spain
9 Socialists and Communists
10 England and Russia
11 The Italian Parliament
12 The Communists and the Elections
13 The Elections and Freedom
14 Elemental Forces
15 The Old Order in Turin
16 Socialists and Fascists
17 Reactionary Subversiveness
18 Referendum
19 Leaders and Masses
20 Bonomi
21 The "Arditi del Popolo"
22 The Development of Fascism
23 Against Terror
24 The Two Fascisms
25 The Agrarian Struggle in Italy
26 Those Mainly Responsible
27 Parties and Masses
28 Masses and Leaders
29 One Year
30 The "Alleanza del Lavoro"
31 A Crisis within the Crisis
32 Lessons


II THE ROME CONGRESS

33 Theses on Tactics of the PCI ("Rome Theses") - Bordiga and Terracini
34 Congress Interventions
35 Report on the National Congress to the Turin Communist Section


III TOWARDS A NEW LEADING GROUP

36 Origins of the Mussolini Cabinet
37 Togliatti to Gramsci (I May 1923)
38 Gramsci to Togliatti (18 May 1923)
39 Report by the minority of the Italian delegation to the Enlarged Executive meeting of June 1923
40 What the relations should be between the PCI and the Comintern
41 Faction Meeting: Fragment of the minutes (12 July 1923)
42 Three fragments by Gramsci
43 Gramsci to the Executive Committee of the PCI
44 Our Trade-union Strategy
45 What is to be Done?
46 Gramsci to Scoccimarro (5 January 1924)
47 Gramsci to Terracini (12 January 1924)
48 Gramsci to Togliatti (27 January 1924)
49 Gramsci to Leonetti (28 January 1924)
50 Gramsci to Togliatti, Terracini and others (9 February 1924)

IV THE NEW ORIENTATION
51 Editorial: March 1924
52 "Leader"
53 Against Pessimism
54 Gramsci to Togliatti, Scoccimarro, Leonetti, etc. (21 March 1924)
55 The Programme of L'Ordine Nuovo
56 Problems of Today and Tomorrow
57 Gramsci to Zino Zini (2 April 1924)
58 Gramsci to Togliatti, Scoccimarro, etc. (5 April 1924)
59 The Como Conference: Resolutions
60 Gramsci's Intervention at the Como Conference
61 The Italian Crisis
62 Democracy and Fascism
63 The Fall of Fascism
64 Report to the Central Committee: 6 February 1925
65 Introduction to the First Course of the Party School
66 The Internal Situation in our Party and the Tasks of the Forthcoming Congress
67 Elements of the Situation

V THE LYONS CONGRESS
68 Minutes of the Political Commission nominated by the Central Committee to finalize the Lyons Congress documents
69 The Italian Situation and the Tasks of the PCI ("Lyons Theses") - Gramsci and Togliatti

VI REARGUARD ACTION
70 The Party's First Five Years
71 A Study of the Italian Situation
72 The Peasants and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
73 Once Again on the Organic Capacities of the Working Class
74 We and the Republican Concentration
75 On the Situation in the Bolshevik Party

I Gramsci to Togliatti
II To the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party
III Togliatti to Gramsci
IV Gramsci to Togliatti

76 Some Aspects of the Southern Question

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

I. PROBLEMS OF HISTORY AND CULTURE
1. The Intellectuals
2. On Education
3. Notes on Italian History

II. NOTES ON POLITICS
1. The Modern Prince
2. State and Civil Society
3. Americanism and Fordism

III. THE PHILOSOPHY OF PRAXIS
1. The Study of Philosophy
2. Problems of Marxism