Il Marx di Gramsci

In the prison of Turi, Gramsci engaged in a very intense confrontation with the works of Marx. This new reading began with the translation from German of a series of texts in Notebook 7 and with the drafting of the first series of “Philosophical Notes” and notes on Canto X of Dante's Inferno. But Gramsci did not limit himself to studying Marx; he sought to rewrite his fundamental concepts. From this confrontation arose categories such as "historical bloc," "translatability," and "passive revolu-tions." A particular importance was given to Capital, on the basis of which he conducted the critique of Croce and his research on Americanism.