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- 2015
The Search for a New Revolution: Leo Valiani and the Legacy of “Giustizia e Libertà”Keywords: Antifascism, Socialism, Antitotalitarianism, Communism, “Giustizia e Libertà”, Leo Valiani, “Partito d’Azione” Abstract: Sa?etak This paper will deal with two relevant issues in the intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe: 1) the relationship between socialism, antifascism and antitotalitarianism; 2) the possibilities of a democratic revolution in the midst of the Second World War. In order to analyse them, I will focus on Leo Valiani’s biography and thought between 1939 and 1944, when he left the Communist Party and became a prominent figure of the “Partito d’Azione”. A special attention will be paid to the ways in which Valiani’s antitotalitarian and revolutionary socialism was tied to the complex legacies of the Italian antifascist group “Giustizia e Libertà”
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