Who Was Gramsci?

Gramsci (1891 - 1937) was most notably the founding member of the Communist Party of Italy, which led to him being imprisoned under Mussolini's regime. Gramsci was a prolific writer on political matters where he developed Marx's ideas via the study of other thinkers and observations of the world around him. He's most remembered for his ideas of cultural hegemony wherein ideology is embedded and taught as rules and rituals that develop into the practices of people who are ingrained with those value systems, beliefs and worldviews.