By Francisco Fernández Buey, Nicholas Gray
Reading Gramsci is of substantial biographical and philosophical curiosity for students and partisans of communism alike.
English translation of Leyendo a Gramsci, released via El Viejo Topo in 2001
Part of the ancient Materialism (HM) publication Series.
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Buey adds ‘and a particular sense of solidarity’ to the quotation, although this is not in the original. 34 CHAPTER 1 This first period in prison in San Vittore, which opens with the simile of Nansen’s sailors, conjuring an image of a consciously chosen serenity in the face of difficulty, draws to a close between February and April 1928 with another simile and with the surfacing of a suspicion. In his letters to Giulia, Gramsci informs her that there has been a whole cycle of changes affecting his state of mind, and then states that a period of his life in prison is coming to an end.
He requests a book by Trotsky, and tells Giulia that he cannot find an explanation for Stalin’s attack on the latter, that he finds this behaviour very irresponsible and dangerous, but that he has not yet seen the papers and that perhaps his lack of knowledge of the material might have impaired his judgement. This was written on 13 January 1924. In the same letter, Gramsci seeks Giulia’s personal complicity: ‘In order to avoid any danger related to dispersion, you should write to me in code’. ‘Dispersion’ is here a euphemism for the atmosphere created by the revolutionary low ebb, which was giving rise to suspicion and to unexpected manoeuvres within the new International.
1, p. 96. Buey adds ‘and a particular sense of solidarity’ to the quotation, although this is not in the original. 34 CHAPTER 1 This first period in prison in San Vittore, which opens with the simile of Nansen’s sailors, conjuring an image of a consciously chosen serenity in the face of difficulty, draws to a close between February and April 1928 with another simile and with the surfacing of a suspicion. In his letters to Giulia, Gramsci informs her that there has been a whole cycle of changes affecting his state of mind, and then states that a period of his life in prison is coming to an end.