Keywords
Gramsci; Lebanon; Arab world; Gramsci in translation; creation of neoliberal language; taboos on words
Abstract
This is the Abstract of the English-language article by Fawwaz Traboulsi on the history, starting from the 1960s and 1970s of the translation into Arabic of Gramsci and its subsequent diffusion and influence. The author looks at the way in which currently neoliberalism has been changing political language in the attempt to bend it to its own purposes.

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