Gramsci dismissed some socialist thinkers as hollow absorbers of borrowed culture
Evidence
Social-Democratic theoreticians. Of Baratono (1875 1947), the more important of the two and once defined by the Reformist Socialist leader Turati as “the philosopher of the leadership of our Party”, Gramsci wrote (Ordine Nuovo , 17 January 1922): “The revolutionary verbalism of the Rt. Hon. Adelchi Baratono has no parallel except in the philosophical verbalism of Professor Adelchi Baratono, pedagogue… . Baratono’s interior life, his capacity for understanding, the activity of his imagination, show him as nothing other than the tape-worm of a political and philosophical culture that he has absorbed as a reader of books and newspapers.” — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2625
Related
- Turin professors first connected Gramsci to socialist thought. (similarity 0.81)
- Gramsci’s Centre repudiated Italy’s pre-Livorno socialist tradition as provincial (similarity 0.79)