O “Novíssimo Príncipe”. Gramsci e a reconstrução da teoria marxista do partido

Abstract

It is only in his Prison Notebooks, through the political formulacrystallized in the 'Modern Prince', that gramscian theory of the politicalparty reaches its final configuration. Beyond to direct dialogue with theleninian formulations and those subsequently developed by the CommunistInternational, is also noticeable echoes of critical dialogue withelitist sociology of the political party of Robert Michels. Largely, is thanksto this critical and nonsectarian approach that Gramsci could produce oneof the most original reflection on the party organization within the Marxisttradition, facing the issues previously neglected of oligarchyzation and142ARTIGO Tempo da Ciência Volume 20 Número 40 2º semestre de 2013bureaucratization of workers' parties, thus providing a possible theoreticaloverrun for the inevitability of elitist thesis of split between the party leader'score interests and the interests of their social reference. The objectiveof this work is to restore some contributions of Gramsci to the reconstructionof theory of the revolutionary party today.