
Indeed it has even been suggested that we are now witnessing a new phase in the development of Marxist theory following a period of Althusserianism in the sixties: the phase of 'Gramscism'. However, whilst this remark points to the growing theoretical and political interest in Gramsci as an innovative Marxist intellectual and leading protagonist of socialist revolution in the West, it does not indicate the precise nature of this new theoretical current. For there are almost as many ways of appropriating Gramsci as there are socialist tendencies. In the thirty years or so that Gramsci's prison writings have been widely available, we have encountered the libertarian Gramsci, the Stalinist Gramsci, the social democratic Gramsci, the Togliattian Gramsci, the Trotskyist Gramsci, right and left Eurocommunist Gramscis, and, recently, Gramsci as discourse theorist.
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