LUCIANO AMODIO

Rosa Luxemburg e Gramsci. Continuitą e differenze

N. 1/1986

Summary — Rosa Luxemburg and Gramsci constitute, for various psychological-biographical, historical and political reasons, the elements of a possible line of ideal continuity that links up left socialism with non-Stalinist communism. But their ideological and cultural differences are non the less profound. Gramsci belonged to an environment and to a culture arrived at the Great War with uneasiness and misgivings towards democracy and that, also at the left, privileged the politic in respect of the social. In this context, the Great War has brought together the existing totalitarian tendencies which had in Gramsci its most profound ideologist. Characteristic elements of the Italian culture joining with the sudden Russian revolutionary experience and with the Leninist ideology gave rise to the most original synthesis realized within "western communism".