Gramsci censored terms like Marx and class to evade prison censors
Evidence
But he did so with an extra caution, eliminating any surviving words or phrases, like the name of Marx or the word “class”, which might attract the attention of the censor and so cause his work to be brought to an end. Most significantly of all, in a note in one of the Quaderni entitled “Questions of Method” (see below pp. 382 -86 ) he offers a warning, ostensibly about Marx but equally if not more applicable to himself against confusing unfinished or unpublished work with works published and approved by an author during his lifetime. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 16
Categorization
- QUESTION: What coded vocabulary did Gramsci substitute for class and Marx? Decoding those substitutions could reveal how censorship shaped his theoretical vocabulary itself.
- XREF: connects to: Gramsci’s censorship forced a coded vocabulary for Marxist class concepts — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1796; Gramsci’s prison terminology camouflaged revolutionary concepts against censorship; Prison censorship forced Gramsci to mask Marxists and Marxist concepts in code names — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 25 (+9 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Gramsci’s censorship forced a coded vocabulary for Marxist class concepts — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1796; Gramsci’s prison terminology camouflaged revolutionary concepts against censorship; Prison censorship forced Gramsci to mask Marxists and Marxist concepts in code names — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 25 (+9 more)
Broader Connections
- Prison censorship forced Gramsci to mask Marxists and Marxist concepts in code names
#corroborates(0.97) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 25 - Gramsci’s censorship forced a coded vocabulary for Marxist class concepts
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