Drake, Richard
Apostles and agitators
Italy's Marxist revolutionary tradition
Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2003, 288
With Antonio Gramsci, The revolutionary as centrist (pp. 166-193).
Drake offers an invaluable genealogy of Marxist thinkers and demonstrates how Marx and Marxism -- far from being a monolithic ideology -- were adapted to Italian political, economic, and cultural realities on the ground. In Drake's reading, Mussolini and the forgotten Amadeo Bordiga both come off as more sincere than does Gramsci. This challenge to the usual saintly portrait of Gramsci is welcome, as Drake is honest in both his criticism and praise. It is indeed a formidable cast of characters, but Drake does not neglect non-Marxist thinkers such as Filippo Turati (the grand old man of Italian socialism), Karl Kautsky, Eduard Bernstein, Vilfredo Pareto, and Georges Sorel (Stanislao G. Pugliese, Journal of Modern History).
Drake offers an invaluable genealogy of Marxist thinkers and demonstrates how Marx and Marxism -- far from being a monolithic ideology -- were adapted to Italian political, economic, and cultural realities on the ground. In Drake's reading, Mussolini and the forgotten Amadeo Bordiga both come off as more sincere than does Gramsci. This challenge to the usual saintly portrait of Gramsci is welcome, as Drake is honest in both his criticism and praise. It is indeed a formidable cast of characters, but Drake does not neglect non-Marxist thinkers such as Filippo Turati (the grand old man of Italian socialism), Karl Kautsky, Eduard Bernstein, Vilfredo Pareto, and Georges Sorel (Stanislao G. Pugliese, Journal of Modern History).
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[author] Drake, Richard |
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Rivoluzione
Revolution
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Drake, Richard
Apostoli e agitatori
Apostoli e agitatori
