Martin Clark, Antonio Gramsci and the Revolution that Failed (New Haven & London: Yale U. Press, 1977) ("I cannot claim that Gramsci--any more than the Yugoslavs--has the answer to these problems. What I do claim is that the Factory Council movement in Italy was concerned with many of the issues that are still relevant today, and that Gramsci was one of the few Socialist thinkers to worry about the very presuppositions of Socialism. He thought 'workers' self-management' was essential, both on moral grounds--it rescues men from serfdom--and on economic grounds--it alone can produce a sober disciplines, industrious skilled labour force. He has not been proved wrong yet. However, the questions whether 'self-management' might not depend on 'workers' power', whether 'workers' power' is compatible with the discipline of the market place, and whether a market system is compatible with 'social solidarity', will no doubt prove as troublesome in the future as they did for Gramsci in the 1920s. So, too, will the appeal of authoritarianism, and perhaps above all the tenacity of old institutions and old bureaucracies. With all their failings, regimes collapse much less often than one would expect." Id. at 11-12.).
Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, Volume I, edited and translated from the Italian by Joseph A Buttugieg (New York: Columbia U. Press, 1992, 2011).
Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, Volume II, edited and translated from the Italian by Joseph A Buttugieg (New York: Columbia U. Press, 1996, 2011).
Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, Volume III, edited and translated from the Italian by Joseph A Buttugieg (New York: Columbia U. Press, 2007, 2011).
