Apostles and Agitators

Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition

Richard Drake

    Preface

    1. Karl Marx: The Word

    2. Carlo Cafiero: Prophet of Anarchist Communism

    3. Antonio Labriola: The Philosopher of Praxis

    4. Arturo Labriola: The Revolutionary Betrayed

    5. Benito Mussolini: The Indispensable Revolutionary

    6. Amadeo Bordiga: The Revolutionary as Anti-Realpolitiker

    7. Antonio Gramsci: The Revolutionary as Centrist

    8. Palmiro Togliatti: The Revolutionary as Cultural Impresario

    Coda: Revolution and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

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Richard Drake is Professor of History, University of Montana and the author of The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy (winner of the American Historical Association's Howard R. Marraro Prize).