Italian Communism: The Escape from Leninism : an Anthropological PerspectivePluto Press, 1990 - 246 pages Crispen Shore's work is based on research in the heart of the Communist-governed city of Perugia. He traces major factors which explain the success of the PCI - its disengagement from the Soviet Union, its break with the strictures of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy, its development of an independent popular national vision of socialism and the expansive sub-cultural role it has created for itself within Italian society. |
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Page 92
... Party section , for this is one of the critical areas where ideology and organisation are welded together most conspicuously . However , that ' welding ' is not always successful , and contradictions emerge most visibly at section level ...
... Party section , for this is one of the critical areas where ideology and organisation are welded together most conspicuously . However , that ' welding ' is not always successful , and contradictions emerge most visibly at section level ...
Page 94
... party organisation , there was little if any immediate rupture with the socialist model . Throughout the period of Bordiga's leadership ( 1921-4 ) , the newly formed PCd'I remained fixed in the old Socialist Party mould , its organisation ...
... party organisation , there was little if any immediate rupture with the socialist model . Throughout the period of Bordiga's leadership ( 1921-4 ) , the newly formed PCd'I remained fixed in the old Socialist Party mould , its organisation ...
Page 101
... Party organisation , the function of workplace cells was reduced , in the words of Massari ( 1982 : 158 ) , - to that of a mere relic testifying to a pretended ideological continuity - that needs to be constantly reaffirmed in the party ...
... Party organisation , the function of workplace cells was reduced , in the words of Massari ( 1982 : 158 ) , - to that of a mere relic testifying to a pretended ideological continuity - that needs to be constantly reaffirmed in the party ...
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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