Daniel Egan, Ph.D. in Sociology, Boston College, 1994, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His major research and teaching areas are social theory, political sociology, and globalization. His current work focuses on the intersection between military doctrine and social theory.

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Marxism and the Military Metaphor

2. Gramsci's Marxism
Working Class Organization and Revolutionary Politics
Political Relations of Power

3. War of Maneuver and War of Position
War as Metaphor
Analysis of the Metaphor

4. Marxism and Insurrection
Engels and Insurrection
Lenin, Trotsky and Insurrection
The Communist International and Insurrection
The Gramscian Nature of Insurrection

5. Soviet Military Doctrine
Creating the Red Army
Soviet Military Science: Tactics, Operational Art, Strategy
Deep Battle and Gramsci's War of Position

6 Marxism and Guerrilla Warfare
People's War
The Foco
The Gramscian Character of Guerrilla Warfare

7. Conclusion: Lessons for Socialist Political Strategy
The Dialectic of Position and Maneuver
The Gramscian War of Position and Twenty-First Century Socialism

References
Index

An illuminating examination of the role that the metaphors ?war of position' and ?war of maneuver' play in Gramsci's theory.