Antonio Gramsci

Alastair Davidson, Monash University, Australia Many large Italian cities have a main thoroughfare ‘via Gramsci’, showing that the Communist leader has become part of Italy’s ‘national patrimony’, while internationally, the interest in Gramsci’s writings is second to none.

Otto Bauer (1881-1938)

Ewa Czerwińska-Schupp, Adam Mickiewicz University

The History of Italian Marxism

Paolo Favilli, Genoa University 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.