Gramsi- wrote his thoughts in "prison notebooks" Intro: Antonio Gramsci is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism , second only to Marx himself. he is considered as father of Neo-Marxism. Context: a contemporary of Mussolini and wanted to find out Why Marxist predictions didn’t come true and why capitalism rather than collapsing further prospered. Neo-Marxism(inspired by Young Marx) wanted human emancipation in its truest sense and not just economic revolution. But to be truly emancipated you must come out of the mental hegemony of the capitalists. This mental hegemony is created through various institutions like the state, civil society, church. These form part of super structure and hence Gramsci has been called as the theoretician of superstructure. Influence- Benetton Croce. Gramsci appreciated Croce’s skillful use of the scholarly journal and press “to saturate the intellectual life of Italy with a single point of view, a...