A Note on the Text

Throughout, references to Gramsci’s prison writing follow the international standard: notebook number, according to the 1975 Italian critical edition (edited by Valentino Gerratana), followed by number of note. In this way, notebook (quaderno) 12, note 3 becomes Q12§3. We have also given page references to one of the English anthologies of Gramsci’s writings, where possible. In referring to Gramsci’s writings we have used the following abbreviations:

SPN:

 

Selections from Prison Notebooks, edited and translated by Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1971).

SPWI:

 

Selections from Political Writings (1910–1920), edited by Quintin Hoare and translated by John Mathews (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1977).

SPWII:

 

Selections from Political Writings (1921–1926), edited and translated by Quintin Hoare (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1978).

LP:

 

Letters from Prison by Antonio Gramsci, edited and translated by Lynne Lawner (London: Quartet, 1979).

SCW:

 

Selections from Cultural Writings, edited by David Forgacs and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and translated by William Boelhower (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1985).

FSPN:

 

Further Selections from the Prison Notebooks, edited and translated by Derek Boothman (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1995).

GR:

 

The Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings, 1916–1935, edited by David Forgacs (New York: New York University Press, 2000).