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Antonio Gramsci
Author · 36 books
Antonio Gramsci was a writer, politician, political theorist, linguist and philosopher, from Sardinia (Italy). A founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy, he was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime. His writings are heavily concerned with the analysis of culture and political leadership, and he is notable as a highly original thinker within the Marxist tradition. He is renowned for his concept of cultural hegemony as a means of maintaining the state in a capitalist society.
