From Italy’s Petrogrado to Argentina’s Turin. Study of the Young Gramsci through the Past and Present Group

Abstract

This article discusses a first approach to Jose Maria Arico and the Past and Present Group’s perception on young Gramsci’s political thought and his political praxis. Arico’s insights should not be limited to his latest works in Argentina, when he unveiled his theoretical and political view focused on the context of a tragic “defeat” of the popular movements in the 1960s, and the retreat of Marxism as a collective action mobilization and a theoretical reference for change. Thus, this article intends to restore the “translations” and other works provided by Arico on Gramsci’s thought, particularly those that came out during a period in which there was an increase mass mobilization in Argentina under the “Cordobazo” (1969), and more specifically after the publication of the Pasado y Presente magazine in 1973.