Juan Dal Maso, "Hegemony and Class Struggle: Trotsky, Gramsci and Marxism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

New Books in Sociology · Apr 29, 2022 · 55m

The Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky exerted a powerful influence on the world, even if his historical and theoretical contributions have often been downplayed, and people who wish to be associated with him are few and far between today. There are a number of factors that have contributed to this marginalization, but correcting it will require revisiting his thought in a careful and contextualized manner in order to better understand his ideas, salvage the underlying core and adapt it for the 21st century. One person attempting to do this is Juan Dal Maso in his new book Hegemony and Class…