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 53
5 million members come from proletarian ' backgrounds . However , looked at in
another way , these figures show that over half the PCI ' s members - and an even
larger number of its electors – do not belong to the industrial working class ...
5 million members come from proletarian ' backgrounds . However , looked at in
another way , these figures show that over half the PCI ' s members - and an even
larger number of its electors – do not belong to the industrial working class ...
Page 95
Meanwhile the idea of agitation and proletarian insurrection grew in importance ,
and the Party began to suffer the effects of clampdown , arrest and persecution .
By the end of the 1920s its organisation had been virtually smashed ; most of its ...
Meanwhile the idea of agitation and proletarian insurrection grew in importance ,
and the Party began to suffer the effects of clampdown , arrest and persecution .
By the end of the 1920s its organisation had been virtually smashed ; most of its ...
Page 161
... theory of the state as an instrument of class domination , emphasising points
that Marx and Engels had not elaborated : the ' need to smash the bourgeois
State machinery ' , the establishment of the proletarian state , ' proletarian
dictatorship ...
... theory of the state as an instrument of class domination , emphasising points
that Marx and Engels had not elaborated : the ' need to smash the bourgeois
State machinery ' , the establishment of the proletarian state , ' 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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