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Conversion to Christianity

During the presentation of the first international catalogue of stamps, Archbishop Luigi De Magistris, prefect emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary, revealed this week that the founder of the Italian Communist Party, Antonio Gramsci, returned to the Catholic faith of his childhood and received the sacraments before dying in April of 1937.[1] 2804:14D:78D3:4AD8:F881:4FB5:1696:D03A (talk) 17:44, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

This is disputed, and it's well known his last wish to be buried in the acatholic cemetery.--191.19.39.233 (talk) 17:43, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Gramsci and Left Communism

The passage cited for the sentence that claims Gramsci was a Left Communist reads as follows:

"It is likely that, had his true views been known (particularly his growing hostility to Stalin), he would have been expelled from the Party. Granted ‘provisional freedom’ on the grounds of ill health, Gramsci was moved to a supervised clinic in Rome in 1935 where he died of a stroke in 1937. He is buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. Gramsci’s prison sentence was effectively a death penalty. More and more illnesses swarmed around his body, a situation made worse by the prison authorities’ indifference. Compounding this agony, Gramsci’s contact with his wife and children was irregular, not least because Giulia was susceptible to long bouts of mental illness and proved unwilling to return to Italy. He would never see his second son, Giuliano. A letter to Tatiana notes that being cut off from his family ‘added a second prison to my life’. ‘I was prepared for the blows of my adversaries’, he writes, ‘but not for the blows that would also be dealt me from completely unsuspected corners’ (1979: 175). Yet despite this, Gramsci’s brain did not cease functioning in 1928. It is a mark of the contingent, developing nature of Italian fascism that unlike millions of subsequent victims of totalitarianism, Gramsci was imprisoned, not murdered. With the help of the Cambridge economist Piero Sraffa, he was able to receive books and journals, and his sister-in-law Tatiana campaigned ceaselessly for his release and for improvements in his condition, eventually smuggling Gramsci’s writings from his room at the clinic. These took the form of 33 notebooks, a total of nearly 3,000 pages of tiny, meticulous handwriting. These Prison Notebooks are a fragmentary, incomplete record of Gramsci’s mental efforts over a decade, written under the watchful eye of the prison censor, and reassembled years later by editors and translators. Yet despite the conditions of their production and publication, what makes the Notebooks among the most important and moving documents of the twentieth century is precisely their immediacy, their sense of not being disinterested but of transcending the confines of prison, of reaching beyond the failure of socialism and the triumph of fascism, to understand a contemporary situation and to remake it. Thus, the very different scraps of synthesis and analysis in the Notebooks – about intellectuals, language and linguistics, about literature and folklore, the Southern Question and the Risorgimento, about ‘Americanism’, ‘Fordism’ and most insistently hegemony – build towards a major understanding of power and meaning in the countries of advanced capitalism." (25, Jones, 2006)

So again, there is no citation provided for Gramsci being a left communist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.82.80.182 (talk) 18:23, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

References in Philosophy section

I am just now learning about Gramsci and would find it extremely helpful to have references in the Philosophy section to guide me in locating primary and, especially, secondary sources that support those entries. Jojalozzo (talk) 23:11, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

"philosopher, political theorist, linguist, sociologist, historian, writer, literary critic, journalist"

While Gramsci's writings cover a wide range of topics, I do not believe the description of him above is accurate. He could be accurately described as a "linguist", "historian", "philosopher", etc. if he had specialized in one of these fields, but occasionally writing on certain topics isn't enough to be classed with a specialist title like this. Hanshans23 (talk) 15:51, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Influence on Avishai Benhaim

Why is this notable? Although Ben-Haim may be notable enough to have a Wikipedia article in Hebrew, I see nothing at that article - translated - to suggest Gramsci's influence on him is important to the reader of Gramsci's article. In fact, the supposed influence looks doubtful. I am deleting it. Taquito1 (talk) 13:08, 4 April 2021 (UTC)