Gramsci e il marxismo come storicismo assoluto

In a few notes of Prison Notebooks written starting from 1932, Antonio Gramsci defines the «philosophy of praxis» as «absolute historicism».The aim of this paper is to clarify the meaning of conceiving Marxism as historicism, the meaning of the adjective “absolute” in this context and the relationship between Gramsci’s conception of Marxism and other forms of historicism, especially Benedetto Croce’s one.