A Few Words about Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci is an absolutely brilliant theorist, an example of the fact that it is impossible to divide genius people into “right” and “left”, “ours” and “others.” Genius negates political views: it doesn’t matter whether Gramsci is “leftist” and Schmitt is “rightist” – it is much more important that they are geniuses. Gramsci’s political writings, his systematization, formalization, and conceptualization of political processes brilliantly explain what happened in the last century, and to a large extent perfectly explain what is happening now, and, moreover, like Schmitt’s ideas they hold brilliant potential for forecasting the future. They have not lost their relevance. We take Carl Schmitt, apply his concept of the “political” to any situation, and everything becomes clear. The explanatory potential, the power of a politological system is much more valuable than the ideological views of its creator. Exactly the same can be applied to Gramsci. I am convinced that he is part of the Fourth Political Theory, his methodology is unique: its sense has just begun to be unveiled. Gramsci is about the future. Gramsci is a fundamentally important author.