Article: Hegemony and Power: On the Relation Between Gramsci and Machiavelli.

Gramsci is almost the only communist leader to survive with honor in the "post" fields of so many recent currents of leftist thought. He has, in fact, not only survived but flourished, through the widespread dissemination of key concepts like hegemony and organic intellectual. Fontana notes early in his introductory chapter the multiple appearances Gramsci continues to make, depending on the interpreter: "the Crocean or Hegelian Gramsci, the Leninist Gramsci, the Jacobin Gramsci, the democratic-spontaneist Gramsci, the voluntarist Gramsci, and so on ad nauseam". The ad nauseam is rather too much like an expression of Crocean intellectual distacco for a book that otherwise ...

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