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Article: 'O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark': The many deaths of Antonio Gramsci.(Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements)(Book review)
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- Capital & Class
- Article date:
- June 22, 2009
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Richard Day
Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements
Pluto Press, 2005, 254 pp.
ISBN 189-707103-5 pbk 17 [pounds sterling]
The two purposes of Richard Day's Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements are declared in its title: on the one hand, to evaluate anarchist tactics and strategies within a variety of contemporary social movements; and on the other, to perform a critical autopsy on Gramsci and his supposedly omnipresent concept of hegemony. Day canvases a long list of anarchist and autonomist theorists, from William Godwin to Hakim Bey, in search of a radical theory of the 'logic ...