The History Of Italian Marxism: From Its Origins To The Great War (historical Materialism Book)
by Paolo Favilli /
2016 / English / PDF
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InThe History of Italian Marxism
The History of Italian Marxism, Paolo Favilli offers an
articulated analysis of the different levels at which Marx's ideas
- and 'Marxism' as a doctrinal 'system' - were received in Italy
from the time of the First International up till the eve of the
First World War. Rejecting any linear understanding of the relation
between Marx's texts and the assumption of Marxism as the ideology
of the burgeoning workers' movement, Favilli explores the growth of
different forms of Marxist culture through the period of the Paris
Commune, the late-nineteenth-century debate on 'revisionism', and
the rise of revolutionary syndicalism. Asking in each case whether
'Marxism' meant a science, an ideology, a way of doing politics, a
utopia, a myth or a religion, Favilli goes on to assess which of
these 'Marxisms' died with, and which have survived, the 'crisis'
at the end of the twentieth century. With a new preface to the
English edition. First published in Italian as
, Paolo Favilli offers an
articulated analysis of the different levels at which Marx's ideas
- and 'Marxism' as a doctrinal 'system' - were received in Italy
from the time of the First International up till the eve of the
First World War. Rejecting any linear understanding of the relation
between Marx's texts and the assumption of Marxism as the ideology
of the burgeoning workers' movement, Favilli explores the growth of
different forms of Marxist culture through the period of the Paris
Commune, the late-nineteenth-century debate on 'revisionism', and
the rise of revolutionary syndicalism. Asking in each case whether
'Marxism' meant a science, an ideology, a way of doing politics, a
utopia, a myth or a religion, Favilli goes on to assess which of
these 'Marxisms' died with, and which have survived, the 'crisis'
at the end of the twentieth century. With a new preface to the
English edition. First published in Italian asStoria del
marxismo italiano: dalle origini alla grande guerra
Storia del
marxismo italiano: dalle origini alla grande guerra,
FrancoAngeli s.r.l. Milan, 1996.
,
FrancoAngeli s.r.l. Milan, 1996.