Among the distinguished authors of the Italian socialist thought, the name of Arturo Labriola is undoubtedly among the least cited. Yet the political thinker Neapolitan ferried perhaps the first in what we consider our cultural heritage, the great nineteenth-century French cultural contribution of socialism of Proudhon and Sorel. Born in 1873 in Naples, Labriola was one of the most active theoretical and shakers of the late nineteenth century Italian Socialism.
bitter and ravenous reader of the works of Marx and Engels, was forced into exile to escape arrest, determined following the riots of 1898. Expatriate in Switzerland first and then in France, began to approach the work of Georges Sorel, just at the turn of the century. After internal conflicts with the direction Turati, founded in 1902 in Milan, the Socialist Vanguard magazine, from which pages did not fail to express his support for intervention and in general the statement in national strategic and geo-political sense. The basic idea of \u200b\u200bour thinker in the meantime had critically reviewed the dialectical-materialist approach of Marxism, which in his view would be dogmatic, scientific, soon, somehow dominated most of the Italian Communist and European culture the first part of the twentieth century.
substantially close to the criticisms expressed in Karl Marx, Proudhon in The Poverty of Philosophy and Sorel in Reflections on Violence and the illusions of progress, Labriola found in the "social myth" of self-free working party mediation and its gradual emancipation and moral revolution in the technical sense, the construction of a new and great social entity defined by the idea of \u200b\u200ba nation of Labor, built on the foundations of a new concept in the relations of production and which provides for the joint management and cooperation in technical and creative industrial process. Overcoming positivism in both its form plutocratic capitalist (owner - worker - owner) in its form as collectivist Marxist (master - the proletarian dictatorship - messianism collectivist), Labriola wanted to destroy capitalism and the exploitation of labor and avoid slipping into an abstract mass reduction in the social and global re-educated by the bureaucratic and oppressive constraint of one-party state.
This idea led him to return to Italy in 1935, after his flight to the advent of the fascist regime in 1922, supporting the cause of the Duce and alongside Nicola Bombacci as a monthly contributor to the Truth, which he founded, edited and directed . Just from the columns of the magazine became a symbol for the whole wing revolutionary and socialist fascism, Labriola wished to reiterate what were his ideas of emancipation of all social classes from purely economic logic of the material, to achieve that state Nazionale del Lavoro, proletarian that Italy would find in the Social Republic, but for no time and in tragic historical coincidence, its highest realization.
The socialization of the economy is not only what Bombacci himself described the rescue workers and peasants more authentic, completing what the Bolsheviks had only just begun but never completed, but also the affirmation of a new way of thinking about the economy, according to a vision that would put at the heart of man and his needs, the national community and its needs. Just in the thirties, the Neapolitan socialist, will highlight the center of the process of exploitation as they are large accumulations of financial capital, mergers geopolitical, the lowering of protection and the disintegration of ethnic communities and traditional.
After seventy years we can say that there was absolutely spot on.
Cultural Association Tyr Perugia, www.controventopg.splinder.com
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