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table of contents
  1. Front Matter
  2. Part One—Gramsci as Leader of the Communist Movement in Italy, 1919-1926
    1. Introduction
    2. Two Editorials From Ordine Nuovo
      1. I
      2. II
    3. The Programme of Ordine Nuovo
    4. The Southern Question
  3. Part Two—Gramsci in Prison, 1926-1937
    1. Introduction
    2. The Study of Philosophy and of Historical Materialism
      1. Connection between Common Sense, Religion and Philosophy
      2. Relationship between Science, Religion and Common Sense
    3. What is Man?
    4. Marxism and Modern Culture
    5. Critical Notes on an Attempt at a Popular Presentation of Marxism by Bukharin
      1. I. Premise
      2. 2. General Questions
        1. Historical Materialism and Sociology
        2. The Constituent Parts of Marxism
        3. The Intellectuals
        4. Science and System
        5. The Dialectic
        6. The Concept of "Science"
        7. The so-called "reality of the external world"
        8. Judgment of Past Philosophies
        9. Immanence and Marxism
        10. Questions of Nomenclature and Content
        11. The Concept of "Orthodoxy"
    6. The Formation of Intellectuals
    7. The Organisation of Education and Culture
  4. Part Three—The Modern Prince: Essays on the Science of Politics in the Modern Age
    1. Notes on Machiavelli's Politics
    2. The Science of Politics
    3. Elements of Politics
    4. The Political Party
    5. Some Theoretical and Practical Aspects of "Economism"
    6. Foresight and Perspective
    7. Analysis of Situations, Relations of Forces
    8. Observations on Some Aspects of the Structure of Political Parties in Periods of Organic Crisis
    9. On Bureaucracy
    10. The Theorem of Definite Proportions
    11. Sociology and Political Science
    12. Number and Quality in Representative Régimes
    13. Hegemony (Civil Society) and Division of Powers
    14. The Conception of Law
  5. Biographical Notes and Glossary

The Modern Prince

and other writings by

Antonio Gramsci

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International Publishers

New York

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This selection of writings by Antonio Gramsci was made with the approval of the Instituto Gramsci at Rome, and was translated into English by Dr. Louis Marks, who has also contributed the biographical Introductions to Parts I and II.

by Louis Marks, 1957

Third Printing, 1968

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number

67-25646

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"From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need arises concretely of building a new intellectual and moral order, i.e. a new type of society, and hence the need to elaborate the most universal concepts, the most refined and decisive ideological weapons."

Gramsci's Prison Notebooks

"I am feeling a bit tired and cannot write a lot. Write to me always, and tell me about everything that interests you at school. I think you like history, just as I did when I was your age, because it is about living men. And everything that is about men, as many men as possible, all the men in the world united among themselves in societies, working and struggling and bettering themselves must please you more than any other thing."

Gramsci's last letter from prison to his elder son Delio written shortly before his death

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This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. This translation of the text was published and registered in 1957 without copyright renewal meaning it has entered the public domain.

This work was converted into an ebook in February, 2026 by August G. Smith.

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