Selections from Political Writings, 1921-1926

xii, 516 pp. With additional texts by other Italian Communist leaders. This present volume covers the momentous years of the foundation of the Italian Communist Party (whose leader Gramsci was from 1924 until his arrest in 1926), the ascendancy of the Soviet Union as an authoritative force in the Communist International, and the rise and eventual triumph of fascism which forced Italian communism into nearly twenty years of illegality and Gramsci into prison. The crucial concerns of the articles, reports and letters in this volume are of central relevance to contemporary Marxism--the functioning of working-class power, the strategy of the united struggle against capitalism and against fascism, and the implications of proletarian internationalism--and the collection is indispensable for a proper understanding of the fighting traditions of the Italian Communist Party. Complete with subject and name index, a chronology and full notes, and including relevant texts by other Italian Communist leaders...--rear wrapper