Livio Maitan: Memoirs of a critical communist: Towards a history of the Fourth International - Softcover

Maitan, Livio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0850367565 ISBN 13: 9780850367560

Publisher: The Merlin Press Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

Livio Maitan's Memoirs of a communist tells of the life of a revolutionary communist in the second half of the 20th Century. From his early commitment to communism in 1942 under fascism in Italy, Livio chose to be `against the current' by rejecting both Stalinism and social democracy and charted a course towards democratic and revolutionary Marxism. In 1947 he joined the Italian Trotskyist movement, of which he remained a leading member all his life. He was one of a small group of comrades who led the Fourth International during the difficult years of the 1950s and early 1960s. First elected in 1951, he remained a member of the International leadership until his death. From 1991, he was a leader of Rifondazione Comunista. Maitan died in Rome on 16 September 2004. In this book Livio Maitan and others in his activist Marxist generation review major events in the latter half of the 20th Century. They look at questions of strategy and programme, seeking a democratic socialist alternative.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Merlin Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0850367565
• ISBN 13: 9780850367560
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296