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Apostles and Agitators : Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (300 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674034327
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Apostles and AgitatorsDDC classification:
  • 335.43/092/245
LOC classification:
  • HX286
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Karl Marx: The Word -- 2. Carlo Cafiero: Prophet of Anarchist Communism -- 3. Antonio Labriola: The Philosopher of Praxis -- 4. Arturo Labriola: The Revolutionary Betrayed -- 5. Benito Mussolini: The Indispensable Revolutionary -- 6. Amadeo Bordiga: The Revolutionary as Anti-Realpolitiker -- 7. Antonio Gramsci: The Revolutionary as Centrist -- 8. Palmiro Togliatti: The Revolutionary as Cultural Impresario -- Coda: Revolution and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: One of the most controversial questions in Italy today concerns the origins of the political terror that ravaged the country from 1969 to 1984. In this study of how an ideology of terror becomes rooted in society, Richard Drake explains the historical character of the revolutionary tradition to which so many ordinary Italians professed allegiance.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Karl Marx: The Word -- 2. Carlo Cafiero: Prophet of Anarchist Communism -- 3. Antonio Labriola: The Philosopher of Praxis -- 4. Arturo Labriola: The Revolutionary Betrayed -- 5. Benito Mussolini: The Indispensable Revolutionary -- 6. Amadeo Bordiga: The Revolutionary as Anti-Realpolitiker -- 7. Antonio Gramsci: The Revolutionary as Centrist -- 8. Palmiro Togliatti: The Revolutionary as Cultural Impresario -- Coda: Revolution and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

One of the most controversial questions in Italy today concerns the origins of the political terror that ravaged the country from 1969 to 1984. In this study of how an ideology of terror becomes rooted in society, Richard Drake explains the historical character of the revolutionary tradition to which so many ordinary Italians professed allegiance.

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