Pre-prison writings / edited by Richard Bellamy ; translated by Virginia Cox.

Translated from Italian.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxxii) and index.

Glossary of Political, Labour and Other Organizations -- 1. Our Marx. An Active and Functional Neutrality (31 October 1914). Socialism and Culture (29 January 1916). History (29 August 1916). Socialism and Co-operation (30 October 1916). Three Principles and Three Kinds of Political Order (11 February 1917). Freedom and Discipline (11 February 1917). Socialism and Italy (22 September 1917). Notes on the Russian Revolution (29 April 1917). Why We Need a Cultural Association (18 December 1917). The Revolution Against Capital (24 December 1917). Critical Criticism (12 January 1918). Socialism and Economic Organization (9 February 1918). Socialism and Actualist Philosophy (9 February 1918). The Club of Moral Life (March 1918). Our Marx (4 May 1918). Class Intransigence and Italian History (18 May 1918). Cocaine (21 May 1918). Football and Scopone (27 August 1918). Cultural and Poetic Mysteries (19 October 1918). Men, Ideas, Newspapers and Money (23 October 1918) -- 2. The New Order.

The Sovereignty of Law (1 June 1919). The Price of History (7 June 1919). Workers' Democracy (21 June 1919). The State and Socialism (28 June - 5 July 1919). The Conquest of the State (12 July 1919). Unions and Councils (11 October 1919). The Trade Unions and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (25 October 1919). Syndicalism and the Councils (8 November 1919). Out of the Dilemma (29 November 1919). The Historical Role of the Cities (17 January 1920). The Italian State (7 February 1920). The Drunken Soldier (18 February 1920). The Factory Worker (21 February 1920). Towards a Renewal of the Socialist Party (8 May 1920). The Factory Council (5 June 1920). Two Revolutions (3 July 1920). The Communist Groups (17 July 1920). The Programme of L'Ordine Nuovo (14 and 28 August 1920). The Communist Party (4 September and 9 October 1920). Red Sunday (5 September 1920) -- 3. Socialism and Fascism. Russia and the International (9 January 1921). The Livorno Congress (13 January 1921).

Socialists and Fascists (11 June 1921). Why the Bourgeoisie Can No Longer Govern the Country (2 July 1921). La Stampa and the Fascists (28 July 1921). Moral Problems and the Class Struggle (7 August 1921). The Two Fascisms (25 August 1921). Legality (28 August 1921). April and September 1920 (7 September 1921). The Mainstay of the State (13 November 1921). The Essence of the Crisis (5 February 1922). Letter to Trotsky on Italian Futurism (8 September 1922) -- 4. The Construction of the Italian Communist Party. Our Union Policy (18 October 1923). Against Pessimism (15 March 1924). The Mezzogiorno and Fascism (15 March 1924). The Party School (1 April 1925). The Party Grows in Strength by Combating Anti-Leninist Deviations (5 July 1925). Cell Organization and the World Congress (28 July 1925). The Organizational Basis of the Party (15 August 1925). A Study of the Italian Situation (2-3 August 1926). The Soviet Union on the Path to Communism (7 September 1926).

Letter to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (14 October 1926). Some Aspects of the Southern Question (September-November 1926).

This collection of Gramsci's pre-prison writings, newly translated and including a number of pieces not previously available in English, covers the whole gamut of his journalistic activity, ranging from general cultural criticism to commentaries on local, national and international events.

These early articles reveal the genesis of many of the themes of the Prison Notebooks, such as the function of intellectuals, the importance of cultural hegemony in holding societies together, and the role of the party in organizing a revolutionary consciousness. In particular, the collection highlights the specifically Italian political, cultural and social origins and relevance of much of Gramsci's innovatory reworking of certain central concepts of Marxist thought.

It will be of interest to a broad range of scholars and students concerned with the history of political, social and cultural thought in the twentieth century.