Italian Communism: The Escape from Leninism : an Anthropological PerspectiveCrispen 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 83
For the PCI , the myths of the Soviet Union and of the proletariat emancipated by
the revolutionary vanguard party are old currency . So is the myth of the
Resistance and anti - Fascist struggle – though these once drew large numbers
of people ...
For the PCI , the myths of the Soviet Union and of the proletariat emancipated by
the revolutionary vanguard party are old currency . So is the myth of the
Resistance and anti - Fascist struggle – though these once drew large numbers
of people ...
Page 159
Leninism and the Vanguard Party Model According to Leninist theory , the
working class needs a party made up not of the working class itself , but of self -
appointed guardians ; a vanguard elite of déclassé revolutionary intellectuals
carefully ...
Leninism and the Vanguard Party Model According to Leninist theory , the
working class needs a party made up not of the working class itself , but of self -
appointed guardians ; a vanguard elite of déclassé revolutionary intellectuals
carefully ...
Page 173
Lenin could not have been unaware of this , particularly as other revolutionaries
who criticised his party model – from ... exclusively in terms of the value
democracy it served to the revolutionary struggle and to the proletarian
dictatorship .
Lenin could not have been unaware of this , particularly as other revolutionaries
who criticised his party model – from ... exclusively in terms of the value
democracy it served to the revolutionary struggle and to the proletarian
dictatorship .
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Contents
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The PCIs Approach to Power Society State | 23 |
Construction of Communist Identity in Italy | 52 |
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| Title | Italian Communism: The Escape from Leninism : an Anthropological Perspective |
| Author | Cris Shore |
| Publisher | Pluto Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 074530334X, 9780745303345 |
| Length | 246 pages |
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