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Gramsci and the Italian Communist Party
The Italian Communist Party was not just an insurrectionary party looking for a moment of a war maneuver. In many ways that was successful, but in its success was also its failure. For young Italians of the late 1960s and early 1970s who were attracted to the versions of the new left, Gramsci seemed old-hat. The Subaltern Studies Group in South Asia and in India see Gramsci as a way to think through some of the specificities of Indian history and the Indian subcontinent.