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Il Marxismo di Gramsci

1977; Telos; Volume: 1977; Issue: 31 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3817/0377031224

1940-459X

Giacomo Marramao,

Political Economy and Marxism

Abstract It is not easy to condense into a few observations the richness of Badaloni's recent work. Its central theme is that of genesis in which the complementary notions of transition and socialization are rooted. Here Badaloni locates the live-wire which, in spite of disorder and internal divisions, runs throughout Italian Marxism. Since Labriola, there has been a tendency to separate the subjective moment from the objective necessity of the “laws of motion,” and to deal with Marxism as the “theory of the historical space for the proletarian revolution” (p. 16). Labriola brought about a speculative overturning of the traditional (Jacobin) relation between theory and the working class, locating in the latter the bearer of socialism as the “new formation” which progressively tends to displace the old one.