In the conjuncture of ‚Antinomies’—this was as true of Hobsbawm or Gerratana as of myself—we were writing of a different era: a time when there had recently been the largest mass strike in history in France, the overthrow of a government by workers in Britain, continuous outbreaks of revolt in Italy, the defeat of the United States in Vietnam, and a revolution in Portugal, where hopes and fears of a social upheaval, galvanizing Washington and Bonn to vigilance, were still fresh. It was the last hour of what Lukács, in his tribute to Lenin in 1923, had called the actuality of the revolution. Portugal features both in ‚Antinomies‘ and in Hobsbawm’s rejoinders to it.

—Perry Anderson, The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci, October 2016 preface, (London: Verso, 2020), 25.