# @sociology_official on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DXYnywzkdI4
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- **Posted:** 2026-04-21T07:12:38.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sociology Group| Official Account (@sociology_official) — https://gondola.cc/sociology_official

## Caption

Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of monsters.”

This phrase speaks not only to Gramsci’s time, but to our own: when older sociopolitical and economic structures are collapsing, but no new stable order has yet emerged.

In such transitional moments, Gramsci argued, uncertainty, instability and reactionary forces dominate, creating a breeding ground for extremism, authoritarianism and political “monsters” - figures or movements that thrive in times of disorder.

Source: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/higher-ed-gamma/2025/03/17/old-world-dying-and-new-one-struggling-be-born

#gramsci #sociology #criticaltheory #hegemony #socialchange

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