Around the problem of democracy: a critical approach from the political sociology of Antonio Gramsci
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https://doi.org/10.51378/eca.v69i739.3221Keywords:
Democracy, Intellectuals, Civil society, Political society, Subgroups, Classes, Status, Social transformationAbstract
In his prison writings, the Italian leader and theorist Antonio Gramsci lays the groundwork for a socialist theory of democracy. This theory can be articulated using the most important concepts developed by Gramsci: his perspective on intellectual activity, on the one hand, and his conceptions of hegemony and civil society, on the other. The former provides a general conception of non-bureaucratic relations between leaders and the led; and the latter, of the participatory model of political activity. His arguments are formulated from a realist epistemology in which class structure is conceived as the long-term determinant of a general historical process—a theoretical stance of great importance in the context of our intellectual and political situation.
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