Gramsci asks whether passive revolution characterizes the present as much as the past

Evidence

Does the conception of the “passive revolution” have a “present” significance? Are we in a period of “restoration-revolution” to be permanently consolidated, to be organised ideologically, to be exalted lyrically? Does Italy have the same relation vis-a-vis the USSR that the Germany (and Europe) of Kant and Hegel had vis-a-vis the France of Robespierre and Napoleon? — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 584

Categorization

• QUESTION: This maps Croce’s historiography onto Cold War geopolitics in a way that invites further reading on how intellectuals repress the constitutive struggles of their own regimes.