Politics and education in Antonio Gramsci

Abstract

The article, written on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the death of Antonio Gramsci, aims to underline the importance that this Italian politician gave to culture and education as the basis for building an alternative to the bourgeois society. Revisiting Marxism in view of the new Italian (and international) historical situation, based on the philosophy of praxis and the relationship between intellectuals and masses, Gramsci identified the conditions for the creation of a “hegemonic culture” and an “educational principle”, both capable of building the new man (the modern Leonardo) and to plan the communist society.