{"id":11559,"date":"2017-04-06T14:28:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T14:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=11559"},"modified":"2021-02-17T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:42:50","slug":"edinburgh-peoples-festival-to-commemorate-italian-philsopher-and-anti-fascist-antonio-gramsci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/edinburgh-peoples-festival-to-commemorate-italian-philsopher-and-anti-fascist-antonio-gramsci\/","title":{"rendered":"EDINBURGH PEOPLE’S FESTIVAL TO COMMEMORATE ITALIAN PHILSOPHER AND ANTI-FASCIST, ANTONIO GRAMSCI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Edinburgh People\u2019s Festival has secured funding for a major conference commemorating the life and work of the influential Italian philosopher and anti-fascist Antonio Gramsci.<\/strong>
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People\u2019s Festival spokesman Colin Fox welcomed support from The Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust<\/em> for the seminar which will take place in The Grassmarket Centre, Candlemaker\u2019s Row\u00a0on Saturday April 29th by posing the question:-<\/p>\n

\u2018Who was Antonio Gramsci and why on earth would the Edinburgh People\u2019s Festival wish to mark the anniversary of an obscure Italian philosopher 80 years after his death?<\/p>\n

\u201cCapitalist states maintain their rule as much through cultural conditioning as through economic subjugation or coercion\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are bound to be among the questions asked by those unaware of Gramsci\u2019s towering legacy.<\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Festival intends to answer both questions on Saturday April 29th by pointing out that Gramsci is today considered by some to be the most influential Left-wing thinker Europe has produced since Marx. His ideas on politics and culture are studied by sociology and politics students the world over. Many believe his conclusions are more relevant now than they were when he developed them in Mussolini\u2019s prisons in the 1930\u2019s. In jailing him Mussolini promised to \u2018stop this brain from functioning for twenty years.\u2019 But he failed. Gramsci\u2019s famous \u2018Prison Notebooks\u2019 testify to that.<\/p>\n

\u2018Our conference will show how Gramsci\u2019s central thesis, that capitalist states maintain their rule as much through cultural conditioning as through economic subjugation or coercion, is as controversial today as ever it was.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Edinburgh People\u2019s Festival, itself a product of Gramsci\u2019s conclusions, is delighted to present a panel of international experts for our seminar, including Gianluigi Delana and Gabriella Cuccu, curator of the Antonio Gramsci Museum in Ghilarza, Sardinia, Eurig Scandrett, public sociologist, Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper<\/em> and Ray Burnett, author of\u00a0Vive la Gillie Mor: Hamish Henderson, Gramsci and Subaltern Scotland.<\/em><\/p>\n

The commemoration seminar is on Saturday 29 April<\/strong>, from 10:00 \u2013 14:00<\/strong> \u2013 at:<\/p>\n

The Grassmarket Centre, Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh, EH1 2QA<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can can get your tickets at:-<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/the-edinburgh-peoples-festival-presents-the-life-and-legacy-of-antonio-gramsci-tickets-31707834988<\/p>\n

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also see:-<\/p>\n

PADDY BORT – 1954-2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n