# Augusto Del Noce (in this topic) Hub: [[Topics/Religion, Trust and Civilization/Religion, Trust and Civilization|Religion, Trust and Civilization]] · Analysis: [[Users/@noFrontMilitar/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - noFrontMilitar on Gramsci, Christianity and Hegemony (2026-10-24)|@noFrontMilitar on Gramsci (Oct 24, 2026)]] - **Who:** Italian Catholic philosopher and political thinker (1910–1989). Professor in Turin, Trieste and Rome; a Christian Democrat senator from 1984. - **Key works:** *Il problema dell'ateismo* (1964); *Il suicidio della rivoluzione* (1978), translated as *The Suicide of the Revolution* (McGill-Queen's UP); *The Crisis of Modernity* (English selection). - **Thesis used in the post:** Marxism, by making history absolute, ends up dissolving into bourgeois nihilism and the affluent, "technological" society. The revolution "commits suicide" by producing the secular consumer order it fought. He traced this process through Gramsci, whom he read as shaped by Giovanni Gentile's actualism. - **In this topic:** cited by @noFrontMilitar for the idea that Marxism became "the great servant of nihilism". That is a fair paraphrase; the essay omits the Gentile link, which is central to Del Noce's reading of Gramsci.