Antonio Gramsci and 'the international': past, present and future

There is no abstract, but this is a representative paragraph from the introduction:

'Accordingly, this chapter focuses on four key themes: (1) Gramsci as an avowedly ‘international’ theorist which does not require his concepts to be ‘scaled-up’ from the ‘national’ to ‘the international’ due to his inherent interest in the intertwining of the relations of force across different territorial and geographic scales of uneven development; (2) the ‘passive revolutionary’ road to capitalism related to struggles between class forces from above and below that combine elements of ‘revolution’ and ‘restoration’ in constituting and/or restructuring capitalist social relations of production; (3) the contemporary period of a globalizing world economy linked to the transnational expansion of capitalist class fractions and the implications for labor; and (4) the nature of, and conflicts accompanying, the current period of crisis since the Great Recession (2007 onward) in which the authoritarian dynamics of neoliberalization have come to the fore in repressing anti-capitalist social movements. It is then argued, in conclusion, that a critical, Gramsci-inspired approach has profound political consequences, for it enables us to appreciate the imperative of rethinking alternatives to the current world order during the current plight of capitalist crisis.'