Re: AUT: why gramsci

[vacirca@xxxxxxxxx (robert brown)]

>Dear All
>
>FYI
>
>There was in the UK a bit of 'Gramsci cult' in the early 70s.
>
>Part of this [INMHO] was an attempt by the Left to repackage itself,
>since the failure of orthodox Trotskyism to make any significant gains
>then or since was already quite clear.
>
>However there was some genuine interest in what he said and the movement
>that he came from.
>
>New Edinburgh Review gave over several issues to reprints / translations
>of his work and I still have a copy of 'Proletarian Order' by
>Gwyn Williams [who must surely be dead by now]. Its a long time since I
>read it so I can't really offer any comment.
>
>it was subtitled
>
>'Antonio Gramsci and the origins of communism in Italy 1911 - 1921'
>
>published in 1975 by Pluto
>
>ISBN 09 028 18 67 8 [Pbk]
>
>Hope this is of some use if people want to carry on with this thread.
>
>DG
>

  Hi dave,   Thanx for the info. i read Proletarian Order ages ago, may
even stll have a copy. i'm told that among cultural studies academics no
one reads Gramsci directly anymore. they read R. Williams and Bordieau.
Are you familiar with  Williams' take on Gramsci, he was part of the
Birmingham  working class cultural studies group in the 80's i think.   bob

"A fool can ask more questions than a wise man can answer"  Long live the
fool.




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