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Gramsci's Thought

P. Govinda Pillai , B.R. AMBEDKAR 1

Translated by : M.G. Radhakrishnan

Afterword by : E.M.S. Namboodiripad , A.G. Noorani

LeftWord Books 2021

Language: English

119 Pages

5.5*8.5 Inches

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About the Book

In the early 1990s, E.M.S. Namboodiripad (1909–1998) came across the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937). Gramsci, one of the most significant communist theorists of his time, had spent his time in prison writing essays and notes to clarify the situation of the communist revolution in Italy, and the victory of the fascist forces. These writings, written in secret over a decade (1929–1937) largely in the prison of Turi near Bari, were smuggled out by Gramsci’s family, preserved by his comrades, and then published first a little over a decade after Gramsci’s death. It was P. Govinda Pillai (1926–2012) – known to his comrades as PG – who had first given EMS a volume of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. EMS read part of it and jokingly chided PG for not giving him Gramsci’s work to read a decade or more earlier as he found himself astounded by the great quality of the theoretical assessments in it. By now in his early 80s, EMS told PG to write a book about Gramsci in Malayalam. PG said that he would only do so if EMS wrote it with him, so the two of them got to work. An early fruit of the reading EMS had done was published in The Marxist in 1995. The next year, EMS and PG released a full book on Gramsci’s thought in Malayalam. This book – translated by PG’s son M.G. Radhakrishnan – is the English version of that effort.

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B.R. AMBEDKAR 1

Since 1948, Ambedkar had diabetes. He remained in bed from June to October in 1954 due to medication side-effects and poor eyesight. His health worsened during 1955. Three days after completing his final manuscript The Buddha and His Dhamma, Ambedkar died in his sleep on 6 December 1956 at his home in Delhi.

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  1. Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar. Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar was an Indian independence activist.
  2. Gandhian and social worker, best known as the man who defeated B. R. Ambedkar in a general election.

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Review

For socialists today, the history and downfall of the USSR is something of a conundrum. In 1970 it was a political, economic, military and socialist powerhouse. And yet it then entered a period of decline that led to it's downfall a mere 20 years later, and to disastrous consequences for workers and liberation movements worldwide.

  1. An outstanding work on China's socialist transition from 1949 to the present.

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I recently purchased this book and I couldn’t be happier! The quality is crystal clear, the noise cancellation works perfectly, and it’s incredibly comfortable to use for long periods. Highly recommend

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Gramsci's Thought-. Will be found very useful to all students of Modern Indian Political History and to any lay reader who may be curious about understanding the pattern of politics and government of modern India.

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In a large country as India which is so personality and cult driven, it requires real guts and nerves of steel to present a critique of someone as colossus a figure as M K Gandhi. E M S Namboodiripad, the senior Indian communist statesman and ideologue offers a scathing critique of Gandhi, also called Mahatma Gandhi by millions of his followers, adopting a Left viewpoint, while being patient and deeply respectful towards him, but not fawning towards Gandhi as is found in several works, thereby contributing to a balanced and well rounded perspective about the "Mahatma and the Ism". Will be found very useful to all students of Modern Indian Political History and to any lay reader who may be curious about understanding the pattern of politics and government of modern India.

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