Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (22nd January, 1891 - 27th April, 1937) was a major twenieth-century Marxist thinker. Gramsci's major work was the Prison Notebooks, a collection of his writings from his long imprisonment by the Italian Fascist government.

Gramsci opposed much of contemporary Marxism's concentration on the economy and instead focused on developing the political side of Marxist theory. His most notable contribution was the concept of hegemony: of how a dominant class gains the consent and loyalty of other classes.