ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the communicative aspects of several contemporary episodes of social mobilization in the West, in critical times. Occupy Wall Street (OWS) in the United States, Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S) in Italy, and Indignados/Podemos in Spain through a Gramscian lens in order to demonstrate the continuous relevance of a Gramscian framework, as well as its privileged relation with communication. On the other hand, Peter Thomas (2010) argues in The Gramscian moment that Gramsci's thought should be revived for its substantial contributions to contemporary philosophic and political questions. For Thomas, in order to recover the significance of Gramsci, we need to unpack what for many was just a euphemism for Marxism the philosophy of praxis as a theoretical and practical theory in its own right. This philosophy of praxis materializes in Gramsci's dialectics, absolute historicism, and immanentism.
