“Towards the War of Position,” published in mid 2013, was originally intended to be the first part in a two-part series on Gramsci and Mao. I had originally intended Part II to be called “Protracted People’s War and the War of Position: Parallel Ruptures of Mao and Gramsci with Leninism?” and I was looking to explore what I believed to be striking parallels between Gramsci and Mao on questions of the revolutionary Party, the protracted nature of revolutionary strategy building towards a dual power, and other related questions. Alas, this project had to be put on hold in the interest of other important theoretical work required of our organization.
I want to continue to acknowledge an old comrade, Maxwell, who first made me aware of the striking parallels between Gramsci and Mao, as well as the tremendous importance of studying Gramsci in our effort to reconceptualize communist strategy in the imperialist centers today.
Because of its length, Part I was published in four sections in serial form on our website, with each section hyperlinked below.
-Comrade Amil K., August 2015
Section I: It’s Time to Jailbreak Gramsci
Section 2: The Strengths and Limitations of Lenin’s State and Revolution
Section 3: The Historical Context of Gramsci’s Political Work Prior to the Prison Notebooks
Section 4: Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks: Towards the War of Position
Dear comrades, we shall study your contributions about Gramsci. As a matter of fact, an article in the latest issue of “La Voce”, the (new)Italian Communist Party review, deals with the matter, quoting the very same parts of the Notebooks you analyze, and particularly about the Relation of Forces. Unfortunately, we have it only in Italian language. Anyway, we could send it to you on Facebook. Maybe you can translate it. You know, some passages of the Italian article are somehow the same of yours.
Paolo Babini
CARC Party – Int Dept
Gramsci and the Protracted Revolutionary People’s War
– http://www.nuovopci.it/eile/en/testi/Gramsci_and_the_PRPW.odt
– http://www.nuovopci.it/eile/en/testi/Gramsci_and_the_PRPW.doc
The “war of position“ of Gramsci is essentially a paraphrase of the more explicit expression of PRPW that we use, taking it from Mao.
-> continue -> http://www.nuovopci.it/eile/en/gramsci_prpw.html