He is the author of many books in italian, german, french and spanish. History and critique of a black legend and the storm of protests against it published in 2009 in the pages of liberazione, the newspaper of the partito della rifondazione. Stalin for good or for bad was a colossus of the 20th century. I first learned about professor domenico losurdo, who died on june 28, because of his 2008 book stalin. Lenin, subjectivity, peasantworker, october revolution, stalin, losurdo. Analyzing the tragedies of the twentieth century with a comprehensive and comparative method, domenico losurdo deconstructs and contextualizes many of the accusations directed at stalin. It took place at a time, in which the nonaggression treaty. The subtitle of domenico losurdos book promises an investigation into. Lenin, subjectivity, peasantworker, october revolution. Stalin history and critique of a black legend losurdo.
This is a community to discuss current events in our world from an anticapitalist perspective and to provide. Domenico losurdo was convinced of the intrinsically political nature of. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. So i obtained losurdos book on stalin, scanned it to pdf i still have this copy. Sinistra publishing acquires rights to losurdos book on. Unless otherwise specified, ebooks are in pdf format. Originally published in italian in 2008, it has been translated into french, spanish and german.
Domenico losurdo is professor of philosophy at the university of urbino, italy. Domenico losurdo s wellreasoned and elaborately researched book, stalin. Lenin, subjectivity, peasantworker, october revolution, stalin, losurdo to give an opinion on stalin, and the regime to which he has lent his name, demands that one decides upon a frame of reference. We are incredibly excited to announce that the first book that will be published here at sinistra publishing is a translation of domenico losurdo s stalin, storia e critica di una legenda nera stalin. In the event of it being published in english, it should be supplemented with an introduction by professor losurdo himself. History and criticism of a black legend read marx every day. A new generation of communists will share her view. Hell in the obituary they wrote losurdo verso still saw the need to mention his regrettable opinion on stalin.
And for this reason, she had another view of stalin. Domenico losurdo 14 november 1941 28 june 2018 was an italian marxist philosopher better known for his critique of anticommunism, colonialism, imperialism, the european tradition of liberalism and the concept of totalitarianism. In memoriam domenico losurdo montclair state university. Below is a link to the announcement, which they also state this will be their first book. A history and critique of a black legend into english. For a long time read as an example of politicalmilitary ignorance or even blind faith in the third. A history and critique of a black legend, into english. The lives of stalin and hitler, and the fates of their respective dictatorships, drew ever closer to collision, as the world hung in the balance. Storia e critica di una leggenda nera, roma, carocci, isbn. Full text of domenico losurdo towards a critique of. Deutsher writes this essentially political biography, with what i think is the insight of a former believer but without the bitterness or.
The class struggle is continuingit has merely changed its forms. Losurdo was good enough to post it to his academic blog. Waiting for hitler, 19291941 is a history of the world during the buildup to its most fateful hour, from the vantage point of stalin s seat of power. Domenico losurdo 14 november 1941 28 june 2018 was an italian marxist philosopher, frequently characterized as a neostalinist and known for his critique of liberalism. War and revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one thats grown increasingly apparent in recent years. The publisher of verso books is mad that losurdos book on. The history and critique of a black legend, has not as yet been translated into english.
Losurdo also took a highly critical view of the european intellectual tradition. In stalins view, this process of degeneration was generated by a. Full text of domenico losurdo towards a critique of the category of totalitarianism. Transition from capitalism to socialism domenico losurdo department of humanities, university of urbino, urbino, italy abstract if we analyse the first 15 years of soviet russia, we see three social experiments. Storia e critica di una leggenda nera by domenico losurdo 4. Its a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as ernst nolte, who traces the impetus behind the holocaust to the excesses of the russian revolution. Such a biography should be made offered at an accessible price to ensure that it can reach the hands and computers of the masses. Ive seen this clown complain how its an awful book before but ive never seen why its a bad book, so i can only parse that it taking a positive but critical view on stalin is what infuriated him. Pankaj mishra, guardian t a brilliant exercise in unmasking liberal pretensions, surveying over three centuries with.
The first experiment, based on the equal distribution of poverty, suggests the universal asceticism and rough. Losurdo provides a history that mines the theory and practice of marx, engels, lenin, trotsky, stalin, gramsci, mao and castro, among others, to see how they measure up to the point made in 1919 by the first successful communist revolutionary, vladimir lenin. Domenico losurdo stalin pdf domenico losurdo 14 november 28 june was an italian marxist philosopher. I read the attacks on losurdos defense of stalin with interest. A new publishing house, sinistra publishing, has acquired the rights to publish late professor domenico losurdo s book, stalin. Lo storico statunitense grover furr a proposito del dibattito su stalin tra domenico losurdo e nicolas werth in english. Domenico losurdos wellreasoned and elaborately researched book. Reich, the extremely cautious approach by stalin in the weeks. In his view, it would be the weakness and cowardice of liberalism itself, in crisis. The history and critique of a black legend domenico losurdo were still waiting on a. This was a view still replicated by stalin in the fifties, and scarcely. For the latter, he has been criticised for relativising joseph stalins rule and.
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