The Man

Abstract

T W O FACTS M UST BE BORNE IN MIND in understanding Gramsci’s thought in the Ordine Nuovo period of 1919-1920. T he first was the fact that he read as much Lenin as he could acquire after 1917 and disseminated it through the factories.33 T he second is that even so, very little Leninism was reaching Western Europe before late 1920 and this m eant a lopsided understanding of Lenin which is clear from Gramsci’s work.34