The history of Italian Marxism [electronic resource] : from its origins to the Geat War / by Paolo Favilli, Translated by David Broder.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface to the English edition -- The 1860s and 1870s : marxism rejected, and the humus of marxism -- The democratic antithesis -- The anarchist antithesis -- The marxism of the 1880s : the characteristics of a transition -- Socialist culture : sociology -- Socialist culture : political economy -- Cultural mediation in the world of organised workers -- The marxism of the 1890s : foundation -- and orthodoxy? -- The 'partito marxista' -- Between ideology, science, utopia and religio -- 'The anatomy of civil society' -- The end-of-century marxist corpus -- Historical materialism -- What philosophy? : what philosophy of history? -- Materialism and a "philosophy for socialism" -- Marxism and reformism -- Did reformism have theoretical roots? on the question of 'catastrophism' -- Turati, the "marxist" and "reformist" -- The economic theory of the workers' movement -- The articulations of non-marxist reformism, the returns of history, and again on reformist marxism -- Marxism and revolutionary syndicalism -- Did syndicalism have roots in end-of-the-century 'revisionism'? -- Early definitions of a "left"-marxism -- Enrico leone's and arturo labriola's marx in the "high" period of syndicalist theory -- Marxism and elitism in the universe of "minor" syndicalist intellectuals -- De hominis dignitate : a workers' syndicalist marxism? : la scintilla in ferrara and il martello in piombino -- References -- Index.

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In '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. 00Rejecting 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. 00Asking 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 pose the question of what 'Marxism' died with the 'crisis' at the end of the twentieth century. With a new preface for the English edition. First published in Italian by FrancoAngeli as 'Storia del marxismo italiano: dalle origini alla grande guerra', FrancoAngeli s.r.l. Milan, 1996.