John Cammett
AKA: Cammett · John M. Cammett
The Record
Record pending. This file is a stub awaiting research.
Relationship Ledger
Marzani records that his 1957 booklet sparked the interest of John Cammett, then a graduate student, who became the leading American scholar of Gramsci. Source: The Education of a Reluctant Radical
John Cammett’s Antonio Gramsci and the Origins of Italian Communism (Stanford, 1967), grown out of an American doctoral dissertation completed around 1960, was the first book about Gramsci published outside Italy. Source: How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism
Eugene Genovese reviewed Cammett in Studies on the Left in 1967. The journal, founded at Wisconsin in 1959, is where corporate liberalism was developed, and its editorial circle put Genovese alongside Tom Hayden and Staughton Lynd. This is where the Gramsci line meets the American New Left. Source: For a New America: Essays in History and Politics from Studies on the Left, 1959-1967
Documents
What John Cammett wrote, oldest first. The archive argues from these rather than about them, so they are listed with the standpoint and the class of each, and a reader is free to check any of it.
- Antonio Gramsci and the Origins of Italian CommunismStanford University Press, Stanford