Gramsci e gli organismi territoriali internazionali : tre note dei Quaderni del carcere

Scholars have not yet paid much attention to the ‘theory' of ‘international territorial organisms' in Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. The present article intends to fill this gap by reading in sequence and analysing in detail, according to a philological and historical-critical approach, a number of paragraphs that have so far been considered individually. In doing so, it shows that Gramsci examines a wide range of phenomena: not only the international political forces (i.e. the Second and Third International) or the traditional alliances between States, but also certain intergovernmental organisations (such as the League of Nations) and political constellations of nationalities (such as the British Commonwealth and the Soviet Union);

the author of the Notebooks mobilises and links the categories of ‘bureaucratic centralism', ‘Napoleonism' and ‘Piedmontism' in order to study and understand these entities as vectors of peculiar hegemonic dynamics, in the scenario of passive revolution and war of position of the 20th century. Based on this investigation, the article concludes by revisiting Gramsci's theme of modern cosmopolitanism. [Publisher's text]

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