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9780300081183

On Liberal Revolution

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300081183

  • ISBN10:

    0300081189

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2000-08-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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This book is the first English-language edition of a collection of writings by one of Italy's most important radical liberals, Piero Gobetti (1901-1926). In thirty-five thought-provoking essays, Gobetti proposes an original and challenging notion of liberalism as a revolutionary theory of both the individual and social and political movements, His theory is of particular relevance in the wake of the collapse of Marxist socialism, as non-Western countries with nonliberal or antiliberal cultural and moral traditions confront the problems of transition toward democracy and liberalism. Gobetti's ideas continue to influence in important ways today's heated debates over the nature of liberalism.

Gobetti was the first Italian scholar to identify "two Italys": one enlightened and modern though small and weak, the other premodern, traditional, and dominant. A witness to the seizure of power by the Fascists, Gobetti became convinced that Italy's hostility to liberalism could be overcome only with a cultural revolution. Endorsing a radical liberalism, he nevertheless be

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Norberto Bobbio
Preface xiii
Introduction: Liberalism as a Theory of Conflict xv
List of Abbreviations: Works
lvii
Piero Gobetti
Men, Women, and Ideas
Lev Trotsky
1(4)
Luigi Sturzo
5(7)
Woodrow Wilson
12(3)
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
15(4)
Antonio Gramsci
19(3)
Karl Marx
22(2)
Gaetano Mosca
24(6)
Giacomo Matteotti
30(11)
Henry Ford
41(5)
Rosa Luxemburg
46(4)
Benedetto Croce
50(8)
Benito Mussolini
58(5)
Our Liberalism
Our Faith
63(15)
Toward a New Politics
78(8)
The Bourgeoisie
86(6)
A Teacher of Liberalism
92(16)
A Manifesto
108(17)
Liberalism and the Workers
125(1)
Liberalism and the Masses
126(3)
Against the Apolitical Ones
129(1)
A Comment to a Prelude
130(1)
Democracy
131(6)
Our Protestantism
137(4)
Socialism and Communism
The Socialists
141(16)
The Communists
157(21)
Communist Feminism
178(2)
Paradox of the Russian Spirit
180(19)
Soviet Russia
199(12)
Fascism and the Missed Liberal Revolution
The Reasons for Our Opposition
211(1)
In Praise of the Guillotine
212(3)
The Capitis Deminutio of Theories
215(8)
We and the Oppositions
223(4)
A Problem of Freedom
227(1)
In Defense of Proportional Representation
228(4)
A Missed Revolution
232(3)
Index 235

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