Prison censorship forced Gramsci to read Marx mostly through Croce’s commentaries
Evidence
Access to Marxist texts was restricted by prison censorship, and he was forced to supplement his reading of the originals by reference to commentaries and critiques. Many of the passages from Marx which occur in the philosophical and economic sections of the Quaderni coincide with those quoted by Benedetto Croce in his Materialismo storico ed economia marxistica . — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 231
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 231
- XREF: connects to: Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks were written under fascist imprisonment and smuggled out.; Incarceration’s isolation from source texts shaped Gramsci’s theoretical work.