Richard Hostetter. The Italian Socialist Movement.

Contents

Preface

I – THE SOCIAL QUESTION AND THE MAKING OF ITALY

National Unity and the Party of Action

Cavour and the Bourgeois Alliance

The Mezzogiorno and National Unity

Social Revolution and Patriotism: Carlo Pisacane

Conclusion

II – THE PIEDMONTESE AND MAZZINIAN LABOR TRADITIONS

The Piedmontese Societies of Mutual Aid

Morality and the Social Problem: Mazzini

Conclusion

III – MAZZINI AND THE ITALIAN LABOR MOVEMENT (1860-1864)

The Question of Political Action by Labor: Congress of Florence (1861)

The Parma and Naples Congresses

Conclusion

IV – BAKUNIN IN ITALY (JANUARY 1864 TO SEPTEMBER 1866)

Mazzini and the Creation of the First International

Bakunin in Florence

Bakunin in Naples (June 1865 to October 1866)

The International Revolutionary Fraternity

Conclusion

V – BAKUNIN IN ITALY (OCTOBER 1866 TO AUGUST 1867) AND THE INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY

La Situazione Italiana

The Liberty and Justice Association

Bakunin and the League for Peace and Liberty

The International Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the I.W.A.

VI – ITALY AND THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL (1866-1870)

The Workers’ Societies and International Socialism

The Macinato Revolt

The Neapolitan I.W.A. Section

Conclusion

VII – MAZZINI AND THE PARIS COMMUNE (MARCH TO AUGUST 1871)

The Commune’s Initial Impact on Italian Radical Republicans

The Mazzinian Critique

Republican “Internationalism” (Summer 1871)

The “Socialism” of Garibaldi

VIII – THE PARIS COMMUNE AND ITALIAN SOCIALISM (SUMMER 1871)

Carlo Cafiero and the Neapolitan I.W.A. Section

The Cafiero-Engels Correspondence

The Sicilian and Turin Sections

Inauguration of the Bakunin-Mazzini Polemic

Conclusion

IX – BAKUNIN VERSUS MAZZINI (SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1871)

Conflicting Congress Projects

Bakunin’s “To My Friends of Italy”

The Congress of Rome

Internationalist Strength (Autumn 1871)

Conclusion

X – ITALIAN SOCIALISM AND THE “AUTHORITARIAN-LIBERTARIAN” DISPUTE (NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER 1871)

The London Conference and the Sonvilliers Circular

Protagonists: Bakunin, the London Council, Garibaldi

Repercussions in Naples

Repercussions in Turin and Milan

The Bologna Fascio Operaio

Inauguration of Bakunin’s Campaign to Win the Romagna

Conclusion

XI – ANARCHO-SOCIALISM PENETRATES THE ROMAGNA (JANUARY TO MARCH 1872)

The Garibaldian “Democratic Congress” Movement

The Bologna Congress, March 17-19, 1872

Bakunin’s Letters to the Romagna (January to March 1872)

Conclusion

XII – ANARCHIST TRIUMPH (MARCH TO AUGUST 1872)

Socialism in Turin, Milan, Florence, and Naples (January to July 1872)

Engels Concedes Defeat

The “Defection” of Carlo Cafiero

Italian Socialism versus the General Council

The Rimini, Hague, and St. Imier Congresses

Conclusion

XIII – ANARCHO-SOCIALISM VERSUS THE ITALIAN STATE AND SOCIETY (SEPTEMBER 1872 TO SEPTEMBER 1873)

Italian Liberalism and the Socialist Problem

The Eclipse of Marxian Influence

The Consolidation of Bakuninism

XIV – THE PROPAGANDA OF DEEDS: I. THE INSURRECTIONAL ATTEMPT OF 1874 (OCTOBER 1873 TO JUNE 1876)

Anarchist Resources, Internal and External

Insurrectional Preliminaries

Rupture of the Bakunin-Cafiero Alliance

The Attempted “Social Liquidation”

The Trials of 1875: Rome, Florence, Trani

Genesis of a Legalitarian Current

The Bologna Trial of 1876

XV – THE PROPAGANDA OF DEEDS: II. SAN LUPO (JULY 1876 TO APRIL 1877)

Italian Socialism and the Government of the Left

The Congresses of Florence-Tosi and Bern (October 1876)

Consolidation of the Legalitarian Current

“Social Liquidation,” Revised Edition: San Lupo

XVI – DISINTEGRATION OF THE ANARCHIST INTERNATIONAL AS AN ORGANIZATION

The Insurrectional Principle on the Defensive

1878: Decapitation of the Italian International

The Trials of 1879

XVII – THE IDEOLOGICAL LIQUIDATION OF THE ITALIAN INTERNATIONAL (1879-1882)

The Anarchist Dilemma

The Shift to Legalitarianism: Andrea Costa’s Defection

Obsequies of the Italian Anarchist Movement