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Carlo Cafiero

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Carlo Cafiero
Born(1846-09-01)1 September 1846
Died17 July 1892(1892-07-17) (aged 45)
Occupations
  • Anarchist revolutionary
  • Political activist
  • Radical essayist

Philosophy career
SchoolAnarcho-communism
Collectivist anarchism (early)
Marxism (early)

Carlo Cafiero (September 1, 1846 – July 17, 1892) was an Italian anarchist, champion of Mikhail Bakunin during the second half of the 19th century and one of the main proponents of anarcho-communism and insurrectionary anarchism during the First International.[1]

Selected works

  • Carlo Cafiero. Revolution. Black Cat Press. ISBN 978-1-926878-11-9
  • Il Capitale di Carlo Marx, brevemente compendiato da Carlo Cafiero, Biblioteca Socialista, n. 5, Bignami e c. editori, Milan 1879. Online version (in Italian)
  • "Anarchia e Comunismo", Le Révolté, Geneva, 13 and 27 November 1880. An English translation is in Daniel Guérin, No Gods No Masters, Book 1, AK Press 1998.
  • Carlo Cafiero, La rivoluzione per la rivoluzione. Raccolta di scritti a cura e con introduzione di Gianni Bosio, Milan 1968 (some texts are in French). This book was republished with all texts in Italian, as Carlo Cafiero, Rivoluzione per la rivoluzione. Raccolta di scritti a cura e con introduzione di Gianni Bosio, Rome 1970.
  • Gian Carlo Maffei (ed.), Dossier Cafiero, Bergamo 1974.

References

  1. ^ Pernicone, Nunzio (2009). Italian Anarchism 1864–1892. AK Press. pp. 111–113. "Anarchist communism as a coherent, modern economic-political philosophy was first formulated in the Italian section of the First International by Carlo Cafiero, Emilio Covelli, Errico Malatesta, Andrea Costa and other ex-Mazzinian Republicans."

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