I don't think Gramsci was a good writer or thinker. The reason why there was no world revolution in 1917 was because most of the world was feudal or even in some places had slavery, world trade was primitive, even western European countries were still not that developed and had vestiges of the feudal mode of production here and there. there is no need to come up with an explanation on why there was no world revolution in 1917 with some cultural bullshit. there never could've been one. Lenin overthrew the provisional government with dissatisfied soldiers who wanted an end to the war and didn't actually want or understand socialism, didn't actually have class consciousness (because they were soldiers with peasant origins). it was blanquist shit that didn't and never could've worked

>>25498260

Well I appreciate your opinion but he opined on a lot more than just the Russian revolution and I was wondering what is commonly regarded as his most important work (for purposes of efficiency reading this)

But as for the revolution: the army was in large part a reactionary force, yes. However they did not simply "want to end the war" they wanted food, wages, and capable leadership.

Lenin himself wanted to end the war, and this was deeply unpopular even within the bolsheviks. Lenin was convinced germany's defeat was inevitable as was widespread revolution. The common consensus at the time was that none of that was certain.

Lenin battled with the pro war factions within the party and ultimately did not convince them, they favored trotsky's compromise approach of "no peace, no war."

What they did not count on was that the germans would force the issue and threaten to seize st Petersburg and Moscow and that the army would be incapable of resisting them. This allowed Lenin to get his way and get the treaty of Brest Litovsk signed.

Once the treaty was signed it was perceived so horrendously that it set off revolt within the army and inflamed the white cause, it formally ignited the Russian civil war. It also sidelined Lenin once again, and the bolsheviks continued to flounder until trotsky was able to build a new army.

This was not the first time Lenin had discounted Russian patriotic fervor either. (He never expected russia to withstand mobilization to begin with). And the outcome of the peace treaty with germany was first and foremost the kaiserreich's decision, not Lenin's.

Indeed, understanding the rise of stalin requires understanding how tenuous lenin's grip on the revolution always had been and how his intellectual instincts routinely conflicted with mundane realities of statecraft as well as popular opinion and those around him.

>>25498241
>what if we returned to idealism?

>>25498278

elaborate please.

>>25498241
>Prison Notebooks
Why are you reading a criminal?

>>25498369

If you answer my OP question I'll answer yours.

>>25498369
Why do people read Socratic dialogs 2000 years later? Normoid subhuman.