A heterodox Marxist and his century : Lelio Basso
Subtitle: selected writings
By: by Lelio Basso ; edited by Chiara Giorgi ; translated by Matteo Mandarini and David Broder
Series: Historical materialism book series -- volume 216; Historical materialism book series -- 216
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9789004321687; 9789004432123
Subjects: Socialism; History
Description: "Lelio Basso was a major thinker and political leader of Italian socialism; his writings are here presented for the first time in English translation. They document his anti-fascist work from the 1920s to the 1940s, his short-lived leadership of the Socialist Party, his internationalist work in the 1970s, his rediscovery of Rosa Luxemburg and renewal of Marxist thinking. The texts collected in this book provide an original contribution to the renewal of Marxism in Europe and an example of political practice rooted in mass mobilisation and international solidarity, with major lessons for the contemporary left"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.