Political Science · Political Theory
The 'Prison Notebooks' was written by:
ALenin
BStalin
CGramsci ✓ Correct
DRosa Luxemburg
Correct answer: (C) Gramsci — The Prison Notebooks were written by Antonio Gramsci, so the answer is Gramsci.
Explanation
★The Prison Notebooks were written by Antonio Gramsci, so the answer is Gramsci.
★He wrote them between 1929 and 1935 while imprisoned by Mussolini's fascist regime.
★In them he developed the concept of cultural hegemony.
★Hegemony means the ruling class secures consent through culture and ideas, not force alone.
★He also distinguished a war of position from a war of manoeuvre in revolutionary strategy.
★Lenin and Stalin led the Soviet state but did not write this work.
★Rosa Luxemburg was a German revolutionary known for The Accumulation of Capital.
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