ELENA SAVINO

Il marxismo di Giuliano Pischel, interprete e traduttore

N. 204

Summary - In the 1920s, at the time of Gobetti, Socialists and Rosselli's adepts following the Italian marxist tradition were the new protagonists of the heterodox debate on Karl Marx. With his four articles on "II Quarto Stato", Giuliano Pischel became one of the most representative protagonists of the Marxist debate in Italy. He promoted a dialogue that had been interrupted 20 years earlier, and between 1945 and 1948 he published a series of books on Marx and Engels' thought. In 1945, Pischel published a new translation of "II Catechismo dei Comunisti", a fundamental text for the final edition of "II Manifesto", and a brief introduction on "L'Origine della Famiglia, della Proprietà Privata e dello Stato", a minor work by Engels. A year later, Pischel published a translation of the II volume of "Il Capitale". In 1947, he published a brief anthology of Marx's works, "Pagine di Filosofia Politica", and the first Italian translation of "L'Ideologia Tedesca". Finally, in 1948 Pischel wrote his most important and challenging book, "Marx Giovane" (1818-1849). Such books enlighten Pischel's dialogue on Marx with the elder generations, enucleate the central topics of his own ideas, and analyse the influence of contemporary historiography. In the final notes, Pischel's interpretation of Marxism sides that of Labriola and Mondolfo and defines an Italian interpretation of Marx. The aim of Pischel's work was to promote a true understanding of Marx's ideals, and to discuss the wrong interpretations of his writings. The result of Pischel's effort is a confirmation of the humanistic historicism of Marx's philosophic system cited by Mondolfo. With his works, Pischel embodied the ideal continuation of the critical studies on Marx between the first and second post-war periods.