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17 - Anarchism and Syndicalism in Italy

from The North Atlantic Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
Carl Levy
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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This chapter will present an overview of Italian anarchism and syndicalism during the era of liberal Italy and the fascist era (1870–1945) and will conclude with a discussion of the contrasting period after 1945. It will examine the personalities, the political culture, the conviviality and artistic manifestations, the social geography, gender relations, and emotional contexts, and the doctrines of Italian anarchism and syndicalism. This chapter employs a synoptic historical overview in order to understand how the anarchists retained a strong presence in the quotidian life of the Italian left in the era of liberal Italy even as the socialists were predominant and explains their relative marginalization after 1945.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 411 - 443
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Giulietti, Fabrizio, Gli anarchici italiani della Grande Guerra al fascismo (Milan: Franco Angeli, 2015).Google Scholar
Giulietti, Fabrizio, Il movimento anarchico italiano nella lotta contro il fascismo, 1927–1945 (Manduria and Rome: Piero Lacaita, 2004).Google Scholar
Giulietti, Fabrizio, Storia degli anarchici italiani in età giolittiana (Milan: Franco Angeli, 2012).Google Scholar
Levy, Carl, ‘Italian Anarchism, 1870–1926’, in Goodway, D. (ed.), For Anarchism: History, Theory, and Practice (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 24–78.Google Scholar
Masini, Pier Carlo, Storia degli anarchici italiani dal Bakunin a Malatesta (Milan: Rizzoli, 1974).Google Scholar
Masini, Pier Carlo, Storia degli anarchici italiani nell’epoca degli attentati (Milan: Rizzoli, 1981).Google Scholar
Pernicone, Nunzio, Italian Anarchism, 1864–1892 (Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2009).Google Scholar
Pernicone, Nunzio, and Ottanelli, Fraser M., Assassins against the Old Order: Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018).Google Scholar
Santarelli, Enzo, Il socialismo anarchico in Italia (Milan: Feltrinelli, 1977).Google Scholar
Senta, Antonio, Utopia e azione. Per una storia dell’anarchismo in Italia (1848–1984) (Milan: Eléuthera, 2015).Google Scholar

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