Gramsci's Turn to the Superstructures - 5

Gramsci's Turn to the Superstructures - 5 

In his Prison Notebooks Gramsci rewrote

Marxist theory on the basis of the core postulates

of historical materialism, and extended the exemplars

in Marx's and Engels's political writings.

He supplied immensely rich theories of education,

the party, the state, ideology, democracy,

and social movements. His theories have provided

an important terrain for political and ideological

struggle. Above all his rewriting of Marxist

theory proved prophetic. Bourgeois hegemony,

constructed in civil society through class compromise

and by ideological apparatuses of the

state, continues to hold sway while socialist

strategy, at least in the West, has given increasing

attention to the war of position.