A compelling analysis of how Marx's ideas were received in Italy from the 1860s through the First World War

Preface to the English Edition

Chapter One
The 1860s and 1870s: Marxism rejected, and the humus of Marxism
1.1 The democratic antithesis
1.2. The anarchist antithesis

Chapter Two
The Marxism of the 1880s: the characteristics of a transition
2.1. Socialist culture: sociology
2.2. Socialist culture: political economy

Chapter Three
The Marxism of the 1890s: Foundation - and Orthodoxy?
3.1. The 'Partito marxista'
3.2. Between ideology, science, utopia and religio
3.3. 'The anatomy of civil society'
3.4. The end-of-century Marxist corpus

Chapter Four
Historical Materialism
4.1. What philosophy? What philosophy of history?
4.2. Materialism and a 'philosophy for socialism'

Chapter Five
Marxism and Reformism
5.1. Did reformism have theoretical roots? On the question of 'catastrophism'
5.2. Turati, the 'Marxist' and 'reformist'
5.3. The economic theory of the workers' movement
5.4. The articulations of non-Marxist reformism, the returns of history, and again on reformist Marxism

Chapter Six
Marxism and Revolutionary Syndicalism
6.1. Did syndicalism have roots in end-of-the-century 'revisionism'?
6.2. Early definitions of a 'Left'-Marxism
6.3. Enrico Leone's and Arturo Labriola's Marx in the 'high' period of syndicalist theory
6.4. Marxism and elitism in the universe of 'minor' syndicalist intellectuals
6.5. De hominis dignitate. A workers' syndicalist Marxism? La Scintilla in Ferrara and Il Martello in Piombino

References
Index

Paolo Favilli was a professor of Contemporary History and Head of Humanities Department at Genoa University. He is a scholar of the History of Cultures of Socialism. His studies on the history of Marxism include Il Socialismo italiano e la teoria economica di Marx (Bibliopolis, 1980), Marxismo e storia. Saggio sull'innovazione storiografica in Italia (1945-1970) (FrancoAngeli, 2006) and Il Marxismo e le sue storie (FrancoAngeli, 2016).