Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism

The Political Theory and Practice of Opposition

By Emanuele Saccarelli

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About the Book

This book examines the legacy of Antonio Gramsci and Leon Trotsky in the shadow of Stalinism in order to reassess the very different and distorted academic reception of the two figures, as well as to contribute to the revitalization of Marxism for our time.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Introduction: Enter Stage Left, Gramsci and Trotsky

Part I: The Mummy, the Professor, and the Cannibal: The Contemporary Uses and the Marxist Reclamation of Antonio Gramsci

Chapter Two: Out of the Wrappings: Gramsciology and the Embalming of Political Theory

Chapter Three: A Man of Modest Appetite: Gramsci and Political Cannibalism

Part II: The Fortune-Teller and the High-Wire Act: Leon Trotsky, Stalinism, and Political Theory

Chapter Four: Telling Fortunes to the Doomed: Trotsky from Clairvoyance to Theory

Chapter Five: The Balance of Criticism: Trotsky’s High-Wire Act

Chapter Six: Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author(s)

Emanuele Saccarelli graduated from the University of Minnesota with a doctorate in Political Science and is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at San Diego State University. His publications include Empire, Rifondazione Comunista, and the Politics of Spontaneity and Alone in the World: The Existential Socrates in the Apology and Crito.