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The Revolutionary Marxism of Antonio Gramsci
Gramsci's interpretation of Marxism as a comprehensive conception of the world is the essential theme of this book. The discussion is aimed at illuminating the various ways in which Gramsci applied Marxist thought to political, cultural, and social issues.
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Antonio Gramsci : towards an intellectual biography
This biography lifts the study of Gramsci away from the sterile debate about whether he was or was not a Leninist and offers a fully integrated account of the life and work of one of the great figures of international Marxism.
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Renewing Italian socialism : Nenni to Craxi
The first comprehensive history of Italian Socialism in English, this book ranges from the defeat of Socialism by Mussolini in 1926 to its resurgence as a powerful force in Italian politics today, and sheds new light on such figures as Morandi, Nenni and Italy's first socialist prime minister, Bettino Craxi.
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The French and Italian Communist Parties
Beginning with a review of the numerous studies that tend to emphasize the national, societal dimension of the Italian and French communist parties, Cyrille Guiat's book is a comparative study of the two parties from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.
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IL MODELLO DI PARTITO NEL PASSAGGIO DAL PCI AL PDS
The article deals with organizational transformation of the Italian Communist Party as seen in P. Ignazi « From Pci to Pds » (1992) and C. Baccetti « Pds » (1994). Two questions are the centre of attention: on the one hand the relationship between « internal preconditions » and « external challenge » in the change of parties, and on the other hand the problem of the organizing model originating from the disintegration of the Pci. As regards the first problem, P. Ignazi emphasises the action of « external challenge » as detonators of change, whereas C. Baccetti paints a picture of change as more « endogenous » and centred on balances of organisational power. Whereas Ignazi underlines the importance of the generation turnover that occurred in the communist machinery in the seventies, Baccetti emphasizes continuity as a prevailing feature of the role played by cadres. It can therefore be said that while Ignazi is more inclined to bring out subjective elements, Baccetti is more inclined to bring out the importance of organizing roles. The weakness of cohesion and stability of the dominant coalition under the spur of external pressures and the increasing difficulty of distributing collective and selective incentives, bring about the possibility of « voices » as well as « exit » among middle cadres. The second question concerns the new organising model of the Pds. The change of the structure of the dominant coalition and the end of the « democratic centralism » system cause a reduction in the systemic compactness of the organisation as regards both the relation parliamentary groupfextra-institutional leadership and the relation centre/periphery and organising control on the external environment.On the whole, the reading of these important books suggests two conclusions. On the one hand, the changes occurred more because of external processes than because of an explicit will; on the other hand, the transformation process destroyed the old structures without creating a new one. The change still maintained its original negative feature.
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Parties and movements in Italy: the case of feminism and the PCI
Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI). Emergence of the feminist movement, its impact on the Communist party, women's role within the party's organization, transition from PCI to the Democratic party of the Left (PDS), and other issues; 1960s-1991. Summary in Italian.
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Mobilization, Social Movements and Party Recruitment: The Italian Communist Party since the 1960s
Political life in the advanced industrial democracies since the Second World War has been characterized by periods of mass mobilization and protest followed by years of relative quiescence and institutional dominance. The individual phases have prompted extensive reflection. Far less attention, however, has been devoted to how developments in one phase might influence the subsequent one. Using data from a 1979 survey of activists of the Italian Communist Party, this article examines how the cycle of protest which swept Italy in the late-1960s and early-1970s was reflected in the distribution of attitudes towards dissent within the different generations of party activists. Our findings clearly suggest that participation in social movements had independent effects on the presence of particular tolerance attitudes and that phases of mobilization affect the distribution of politically salient attitudes among party activists during a subsequent phase of institutionalization. This, in turn, has possible implications for processes of change in the Italian political system.
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