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Antonio Francesco Gramsci 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.
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Born 22 January 1891 · Died 27 April 1937 · Q83003
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“of a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality and, therefore, a world intimately ingrained in”
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“For twenty years we must stop this brain from functioning.”
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“When a politician puts pressure on the art of his time to express a particular cultural world, his activity is one of politics, not of artistic criticism. If the cultural world for which one is fighting is a living and necessary fact, its expansiveness will be irresistible and it will find its artists.”
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It was suggested that it was due to Pott disease, a form of tuberculosis that can cause deformity of the spine
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Awarded Viareggio Prize (1947).
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As the Italian Communist Party, PCI) after World War II and whose gradualist approach was a forerunner to Eurocommunism, stated that the PCI's practices during this period were congruent with Gramscian thought
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Died 1937-04-27.
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“È piú facile formare un esercito che formare dei capitani”
Was moved from the prison at Turi to a clinic at Formia; he was still being denied adequate medical attention
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Joseph Stalin's manoeuvres inside the Bolshevik party moved Gramsci to write a letter to the Comintern in which he deplored the opposition led by Leon Trotsky but also underlined some presumed faults of the leader
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And remained in prison until shortly before his death in 1937
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1924–1929).
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Gramsci, now recognised as head of the PCd'I, gained election as a deputy for the Veneto
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And with whom he had two sons, Delio (1924–1982) and Giuliano (1926–2007)
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Gramsci travelled to Russia as a representative of the new party
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This shows that Juventus truly have something special, a charm that has never lost strength over the years." Gramsci's interest in football dates back to a 16 August 1918 article for the PSI's newspaper Avanti!, titled "Football and Scopone".
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Became co-editor of the Piedmont edition of Avanti
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And gave talks on topics such as Romain Rolland, the French Revolution, the Paris Commune, and the emancipation of women
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Gramsci won a scholarship to study at the University of Turin, sitting the exam at the same time as Palmiro Togliatti
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Gramsci's father was convicted of embezzlement and imprisoned, reducing his family to destitution
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Born 1891-01-22.
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When a politician puts pressure on the art of his time to express a particular cultural world, his activity is one of politics, not of artistic criticism. If the cultural world for which one is fighting is a living and necessary fact, its expansiveness will be irresistible and it will find its artists.
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