Gramsci's greatest popularity clearly was in the 70s and 80s, when the idea of a reform could come together. In Donald Sussoon's great thousand page history, 100 years of European socialism, he sees that moment in 1978, 79 as the highest success of European socialism and communism. But also the moment when it then loses very quickly to the forces of neoliberal capital," says Simon Tisdall.
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. The second of a two-part interview.
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