Antonio Gramsci, Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (born 1891)

Antonio Gramsci

Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)

Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher and politician. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. A vocal critic of Benito Mussolini and fascism, he was imprisoned in 1926, and remained in prison until shortly before his…