Turin professors first connected Gramsci to socialist thought.
Evidence
Foremost among these were Umberto Cosmo, a literary historian and Dante scholar, with whom Gramsci became friends and whom he subsequently was to criticise for his bourgeois style of attachment to the workers’ movement, and Annibale Pastore, whose lectures on Marxism Gramsci attended. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 44
Related
- Gramsci dismissed some socialist thinkers as hollow absorbers of borrowed culture (similarity 0.81)
- Turin’s strikes convinced Gramsci workers could ally with southern peasants (similarity 0.79)
- Gramsci read the Bolsheviks as living Marx’s living thought against dogmatic determinism (similarity 0.78)