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Umberto Melotti
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- Political Sociology, Ethnic Relations, Migration, Sociological thought, Marx's thought, Sociobiology, Social Anthropo... morePolitical Sociology, Ethnic Relations, Migration, Sociological thought, Marx's thought, Sociobiology, Social Anthropology, Problems of developing countries (especially Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, China, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Tanzania, Tunisia, Vietnam).Umberto Melotti is the author of "Marx and the Third World" published in Italian (Centro Studi Terzo Mondo, Milan, 1971, and Il Saggiatore, rev. ed. 1972), Spanish (Amorrortu, Buenos Aires, 1974), English (Macmillan, London, 1979, and 1984edit
A brief analysis of conflicts in sociological literature, con various examples. It takes into consideration even the main psychological, ethological and sociobiological contributions.
Research Interests: Ethology, Sociology, Psychology, Peace and Conflict Studies, Social Sciences, and 15 moreWar Studies, Sociobiology, Ethnic Conflict and Civil War, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Alain Touraine, Talcott Parsons, Vilfredo Pareto, C. Wright Mills, Auguste Comte, Ralf Dahrendorf, Asiatic mode of production, Zigmund Baumann, and Postindustrial Society
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Nella società contemporanea vi è una "deintellettualizzazione con perdita di conoscenza storica", che porta a sovrasemplificare gli eventi. Oggi, anche in un'ampia parte delle persone istruite, vi è, specialmente fra i giovani,... more
Nella società contemporanea vi è una "deintellettualizzazione con perdita di conoscenza storica", che porta a sovrasemplificare gli eventi. Oggi, anche in un'ampia parte delle persone istruite, vi è, specialmente fra i giovani, un'incapacità di pensare la storia per la mancanza anche delle nozioni più semplici, un tempo fornite dalle scuole superiori, e ciò induce a trattare il presente come se non avesse un passato alle spalle]. Ritengo pertanto opportuno premettere alle mie brevi riflessioni sulla guerra in corso nella regione di Gaza qualche richiamo alla storia. Quella guerra è infatti il risultato di una vicenda lunga e complessa, che non consente sovra-semplificazioni. Per affrontarla criticamente, non si può partire né dal 7 ottobre 2023 (come vogliono alcuni), né dal 1967 (come vogliono altri), né dal 1948 (come vogliono altri ancora), anche se, naturalmente, quel che è accaduto in tali date non va dimenticato.
Research Interests: Peace and Conflict Studies, War Studies, Ethnic Conflict and Civil War, Karl Marx, Israel, and 15 moreArab-Israeli conflict, Antisemitism, Suez Crisis, Palestine Gaza, Hamas, Gaza Strip, Benjamin Netanyahu, Abdel Gamal Nasser, Sionisme, Moses Hess, Yom Kippur War, Theodor Herzl, Six days War, Leon Pinsker, and Jewish State
's masterpiece is a complex and meaningful work, which can be appreciated by readers of all ages. However, the language used by Manzoni, dating back to the 19th century, can represent a barrier for modern readers. In recent years, several... more
's masterpiece is a complex and meaningful work, which can be appreciated by readers of all ages. However, the language used by Manzoni, dating back to the 19th century, can represent a barrier for modern readers. In recent years, several transcriptions in modern language have been published. One of the most recent and appreciated is that of prof. Umberto Melotti. The work is accurate and respectful of the original, the style is fluid and flowing, the language is modern and understandable. The transcription manages to convey the beauty and depth of Manzoni's work, making it accessible to a wider audience. One of the strengths of Melotti's transcription is its fidelity to the original, as it maintains as much as possible the meaning and tone of Manzoni's work. I am referring, for example, to the description of the plague in Milan.
Research Interests: Italian Literature, 16th Century (History), 18th Century, History of Italian Language, Letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea, and 7 moreAlessandro Manzoni, Italian American culture, Lingua italiana, Lingua e cultura italiana, I promessi sposi, Romanzi italiani del Novecento, and Films based on Italian Novels
Some general problems posed by immigration in developed Western countries are reviewed, with a focus on immigration to Italy. The author notes that immigration in Italy is distinguished by the concentration of migrants in the tertiary... more
Some general problems posed by immigration in developed Western countries are reviewed, with a focus on immigration to Italy. The author notes that immigration in Italy is distinguished by the concentration of migrants in the tertiary sector of the work force, with only minor migrant participation in the industrial labor force.
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The idea that Asia occupied its own separate historical category came to Marx from the thinkers of the Enlightenment, and in particular from Montesquieu, who was as well known to Marx as to most of his educated contemporaries who had... more
The idea that Asia occupied its own separate historical category came to Marx from the thinkers of the Enlightenment, and in particular from Montesquieu, who was as well known to Marx as to most of his educated contemporaries who had studied law and is frequently quoted by Marx, even in his earliest works. Though Hegel undoubtedly provided the main initial inspiration, Marx himself realised and admitted that Hegel’s own source was the French and English Enlightenment. The final influence came from the British economists whom Marx, exiled in London, fell to studying with renewed ardour in the early 1850s — a time when related political events, particularly the discussion about British colonial policy sparked off by the approaching expiry of the East India Company’s charter, were to lead him into a more thorough study of Asiatic society. He also collected important material from parliamentary records and the reports of British officials, from the original writings of European travellers or references to them by other authors, and lastly from historical, geographical and ethnographical works on the Middle and Far East.
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AbstractSome ethical problems are here analized in the light of ethology, bio-social anthropology and sociobiology. Particular attention is paid to such classic themes, as incest taboo, killing instinct and altruistic behaviour. The... more
AbstractSome ethical problems are here analized in the light of ethology, bio-social anthropology and sociobiology. Particular attention is paid to such classic themes, as incest taboo, killing instinct and altruistic behaviour. The author stresses the adaptive character of the existing ethical systems and points out the reasons why, in his opinion, today they appear to be, at least in part, definitely obsolete.
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Approche sociobiologique de l'exogamie en tant que moyen de prevenir la guerre entre des groupes humains partageant le meme capital genetique
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Immigration has introduced serious conflicts into European urban areas. The nature of these conflicts varies according to many factors: the countries of origin of immigrants, their cultural and religious heritage, the social and economic... more
Immigration has introduced serious conflicts into European urban areas. The nature of these conflicts varies according to many factors: the countries of origin of immigrants, their cultural and religious heritage, the social and economic problems in the hosting countries. But it is also necessary to take into account the political culture of these countries, i.e. the way in which State, people and nation are regarded and the relationships between ethnicity, nationality and citizenship are conceived. It is not by chance that France has adopted a policy of integration through cultural assimilation, the United Kingdom has practised a form of uneven pluralism emphasizing the role of ethnic communities and Germany has preferred a rotatory presence of «guest workers». Yet, all of these policies have failed owing to the important changes that have occurred both in the global context and in immigration itself. This paper analyzes what has happened in recent decades by taking into account the urban riots in England since the late ’50s, the xenophobic attacks on immigrants in Germany after its reunification and the recurrent explosions in the French banlieues since the late ’70s until the resounding events of November 2005. The last part concerns the case of Italy, which is still virtually unknown abroad.
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1966). Chimpanzees, the primates most similar to man, will even attack a leopard to save their young (Kortlandt 1965, 1972). They also share food; when they find a tree laden with ripe fruit, they communicate its location to one another... more
1966). Chimpanzees, the primates most similar to man, will even attack a leopard to save their young (Kortlandt 1965, 1972). They also share food; when they find a tree laden with ripe fruit, they communicate its location to one another (Rey-nolds and Reynolds 1965, ...
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- Immigration and security have been paired as an object of discussion far too much. Though international experience teaches us that migrating processes lead to effects of higher and deeper insecurity, Italy has until now witnessed - both... more
- Immigration and security have been paired as an object of discussion far too much. Though international experience teaches us that migrating processes lead to effects of higher and deeper insecurity, Italy has until now witnessed - both among scientists and among politicians - a tendency to deny the relationship between these two phenomena. However data clamorously contradicts this assumption. According to the most recent data available, more than 35% of the crimes are attributed to foreigners and 37% of the people in prison are foreigners. If we can share the idea, put forward by many, that data does not explain everything and is subject to influences of various nature that must be taken into consideration, the widespread attitude of denial is due to ideological options rather than any rigorous analysis of available data. However some studies in countertendency can help specify the state of the issue, identify aspects worthy of further investigation, and define the theoretical perspectives and methods most useful to continue research on this topic.
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Thus Marx was led to conclude that there was no potential for autonomous development within societies based on the Asiatic mode of production. Just as classical society lacked ‘creative capacity’ and had to await the external impetus of... more
Thus Marx was led to conclude that there was no potential for autonomous development within societies based on the Asiatic mode of production. Just as classical society lacked ‘creative capacity’ and had to await the external impetus of ‘barbaric vitality’, so Asiatic society was to receive the requisite stimulus from European colonialism.
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January 13, Bruno Rizzi died in Bussolengo, Italy, at the age of 75. Except for a brief note by Giorgio Galli in Mondoperaio, his death has gone unnoticed. Rizzi, as Galli noted, was an author ignored and “cursed.” His work on the USSR... more
January 13, Bruno Rizzi died in Bussolengo, Italy, at the age of 75. Except for a brief note by Giorgio Galli in Mondoperaio, his death has gone unnoticed. Rizzi, as Galli noted, was an author ignored and “cursed.” His work on the USSR (La Bureaucratisation du monde [Paris, 1939]), was discussed worldwide within the left opposition from the early 1940s on, but direct knowledge of his contribution has remained limited to a restricted circle of scholars and militants. His debate with Trotsky is almost always mentioned as something that one has heard of. Few know that the Bruno R. to whom the great Russian revolutionary frequently refers in his last lectures (later collected in a volume entitled In Defense of Marxism) is in fact Rizzi.
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Bureaucratic collectivism can be defined as a modern class society based on specific relations of production that set workers and bureaucrats at opposite sides. Characterized by an enlarged production (similar to capitalism's)... more
Bureaucratic collectivism can be defined as a modern class society based on specific relations of production that set workers and bureaucrats at opposite sides. Characterized by an enlarged production (similar to capitalism's) bureaucratic collectivism is clearly different from all precapitalist societies of simple reproduction (ancient, Asiatic or feudal) as well as from traditional capitalist society, which sets the proletariat against the bourgeoisie. As with all class societies, bureaucratic collectivism can be distinguished by its specific form of exploitation. A comparison between the form of exploitation characterizing bureaucratic collectivism and those of other major class societies will help clarify the nature of this recent social formation.
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At times we have used the term ‘Asia’ as Marx did, as an artificial synonym for the ‘Asiatic mode of production’, or the Asiatic system, making part of the term do the work of the whole. But, quite apart from this use of syndoche, it... more
At times we have used the term ‘Asia’ as Marx did, as an artificial synonym for the ‘Asiatic mode of production’, or the Asiatic system, making part of the term do the work of the whole. But, quite apart from this use of syndoche, it should be made quite clear that Marx’s concept of Asiatic society, while related to environmental factors, is primarily an analytic model which as such does not correspond exactly to the possible geographical configuration of Asia. In Marx’s view there are countries outside those confines based on the mode of production he called ‘Asiatic’, by analogy, and there are countries within geographical ‘Asia’ that have followed a different line of development.1
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By way of illustration we should begin, as Marx does, with the ‘primitive commune’, the primeval natural group based on ‘common ties of blood, language and custom’,1 ‘the family and the family enlarged into the tribe, or by the... more
By way of illustration we should begin, as Marx does, with the ‘primitive commune’, the primeval natural group based on ‘common ties of blood, language and custom’,1 ‘the family and the family enlarged into the tribe, or by the intermarriage between families, or the combining of tribes’.2 This community’s economy is based on mobile pursuits such as hunting, fishing and otherwise gathering the bounty of nature, grazing and nomadism in general, and the earliest forms of swiddening.8 It presupposes, rather than derives from, a temporary communal appropriation of the land: Since we may assume that pastoralism, or more generally a migratory form of life, was the first form of the mode of existence, not that the clan settles in a specific site but that it grazes off what it finds — humankind is not settlement-prone by nature (except possibly in a natural environment so especially fertile that they sit like monkeys on a tree, otherwise roaming like animals) — then the clan community, the natural community, appears not as a result of, but as a presupposition for the communal appropriation (temporary) and utilisation of the land.4
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The existence of significant intergroup conflicts in primitive human societies — in particular, war and warlike activities — has been long discussed by scholars of different disciplines; anthropologists; sociologists; psychologists;... more
The existence of significant intergroup conflicts in primitive human societies — in particular, war and warlike activities — has been long discussed by scholars of different disciplines; anthropologists; sociologists; psychologists; ethologists. However, the conclusions of these scholars are far from unanimous.
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Significant differences can be detected among societies founded on the Asiatic mode of production. Various authors have constructed typologies in an attempt to account for them.
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The schema we propose is fundamentally different from all the unilinear versions described above — whether they have five, six or seven stages — and also from the bilinear models of Plekhanov and Wittfogel, with their ambiguous... more
The schema we propose is fundamentally different from all the unilinear versions described above — whether they have five, six or seven stages — and also from the bilinear models of Plekhanov and Wittfogel, with their ambiguous ethnocentric leanings. We believe that its complexity and the form of its organisation bring it very close to Marx’s actual thought, and distinguish it from any timid first steps, such as those already mentioned, towards a multilinear schema.
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Before presenting the results of our inquiry we should pay the tribute due to those scholars who in recent years were the first to question the traditional unilinear scheme, although some may have done so from highly dubious angles, and... more
Before presenting the results of our inquiry we should pay the tribute due to those scholars who in recent years were the first to question the traditional unilinear scheme, although some may have done so from highly dubious angles, and so stimulated us to undertake this task. Pride of place must go to the over-maligned Wittfogel and the equally over-praised Hobsbawm, followed by Godelier, Rodinson, Chesneaux, Mandel, Suret-Canale, Garaudy, Schmidt, Tokei, Dhoquois — historians, philosophers, sociologists, economists, sinologists, Africanists, representing, in their own fields, the most vital forces in the new, non-unilinear, Marxism. We might likewise add the names of Huberman and Sweezy who, although taking no direct interest in the subject, have openly attacked from a Marxist viewpoint ‘the absurdity of treating the theoretical schema of the Manifesto as a universal formula’.1
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Un confronto interdisciplinare sulla sociobiologia che cerca di individuare una strada per un confronto costruttivo fra evoluzionismo e scienze sociali oltre il determinismo di molte formulazioni
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This paper discusses the relationships between the migratory policies of the EU countries with more experience of immigration and their national political cultures. It focuses on France, Germany and the United Kingdom. It then looks at... more
This paper discusses the relationships between the migratory policies of the EU countries with more experience of immigration and their national political cultures. It focuses on France, Germany and the United Kingdom. It then looks at Italy, a relatively new country of immigration, which, with 3,000,000 legal immigrants, has become the fourth country of immigration in Europe and the first in the Mediterranean basin. In its final part it highlights the incipient process of ‘communitarisation’ of the immigration policies of EU countries in the last decade. This process, which has already entailed a significant convergence of their migratory policies, is expected to continue after the recent enlargement of the European Union.
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The book is a careful integral transcription into modern Italian language of "I Promessi Sposi" (The bethroted / Les fiancés / Los novios), the well-known novel by Alessandro Manzoni. This publication occurs 150 years from the death of... more
The book is a careful integral transcription into modern Italian language of "I Promessi Sposi" (The bethroted / Les fiancés / Los novios), the well-known novel by Alessandro Manzoni. This publication occurs 150 years from the death of Alessandro Manzoni and is aimed at making it easier and more pleasant both to Italians and foregneirs to read and enjoy this everlasting masterchief.
Research Interests: Sociology, Political Sociology, Italian (European History), Italian Studies, War Studies, and 15 moreItalian Literature, Italian (Languages And Linguistics), Roman Catholicism, XVII century, Novels, Alessandro Manzoni, Romantic love, Teaching Italian as a Second Language, Italian History, Lombardy, History of Epidemics, History of Milan, Cultural Antropology, la Monaca di Monza, and Spanish rule
This book (602 pages, 29,50 euro or dollars) is an integral transcription in Italian modern language of the novel "I Promessi Sposi" (The Bethrotes / Les Fiancés / Los Novios), by Alessandro Manzoni, the masterchief of Italian Literature,... more
This book (602 pages, 29,50 euro or dollars) is an integral transcription in Italian modern language of the novel "I Promessi Sposi" (The Bethrotes / Les Fiancés / Los Novios), by Alessandro Manzoni, the masterchief of Italian Literature, published in 1840-1842. This transcription has benn published on May 2023, 150 years od the death of Manzoni, to celebrate him and to make it easear end clearer, to Italians and foregneirs, to read his great novel.
Research Interests: Sociology, Political Sociology, Anthropology, Italian Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, and 15 moreItalian Cultural Studies, Italian Literature, Italian (Languages And Linguistics), Catholicism and religions, XVII century, Letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea, Alessandro Manzoni, Romantic love, Contemporary Italian History and Politics, Teaching Italian as a Second Language, Italian History, Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature and Culture, History of Italian language and the questione della lingua, I promessi sposi, and pandemic in fiction
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Recent trends in immigration to Italy from developing countries are analyzed. The author reviews patterns in international migration and the current international division of labor. The difficulties in distinguishing between immigrants... more
Recent trends in immigration to Italy from developing countries are analyzed. The author reviews patterns in international migration and the current international division of labor. The difficulties in distinguishing between immigrants and refugees is noted. The author then shows how third world immigrants are filling the gaps in the Italian labor force and concludes that Italy must accept the consequences of adapting to the ethnic and cultural changes resulting from this immigration and take steps to improve the imbalances in the current labor system to reduce the demand for future immigration.
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Ci siamo ormai lasciati alle spalle il centocinquantenario della proclamazione del Regno d'Italia (impropriamente presentato come il centocinquantenario dell'Unità italiana, raggiunta in effetti solo assai più tardi, nel 1918), con la... more
Ci siamo ormai lasciati alle spalle il centocinquantenario della proclamazione del Regno d'Italia (impropriamente presentato come il centocinquantenario dell'Unità italiana, raggiunta in effetti solo assai più tardi, nel 1918), con la sbornia di retorica, i costosissimi festeggiamenti e le scontate polemiche di stampo diverso (cattolico-tradizionalista, sudista e nordista) che l'hanno accompagnato. Può essere pertanto utile riconsiderare ora, sine ira ac studio, la concezione italiana della nazione, con particolare riferimento alla sua declinazione in Italia, che resta assai meno nota di quanto si potrebbe pensare. A rendere opportuno questo ripensamento concorrono, del resto, anche i processi e gli eventi che negli ultimi decenni, specialmente in Europa, hanno profondamente modificato il contesto politico, economico, sociale e culturale all'interno del quale va analizzato anche il fatto nazionale con le sue varie rappresentazioni. Basti qui ricordare le significative trasformazioni di carattere tecnico, economico, sociale, culturale e politico che hanno preparato il processo di globalizzazione, a partire da quella nuova divisione internazionale del lavoro che si andata profilando già dalla metà degli anni '70 come risposta alla grande crisi strutturale (scatenata dall'esplosione del costo del petrolio, ma dovuta anche a molti altri fattori) che aveva investito il sistema capitalistico mondiale 1 ; la crisi sempre più grave delle società di collettivismo burocratico dell'Est europeo e poi il loro tracollo, aperto dal gioioso abbattimento del muro di Berlino (1989), odioso e impudente simbolo di un'oppressione non più tollerabile 2 ; la conseguente fine di quella "guerra fredda" fra gli opposti blocchi politici, economici, ideologici e militari che aveva segnato per quasi mezzo secolo la storia del secondo dopoguerra; l'accelerato sviluppo del processo di unificazione europea, con la trasformazione delle preesistenti comunità istituite negli anni '50 con finalità prevalentemente economiche (la Ceca, la Cee, la Ceea) nell'Unione Europea (1992), un'organizzazione sovrannazionale sui generis con sempre più significative competenze anche politiche, e i suoi sorprendenti allargamenti a un numero senza precedenti di Paesi; e, non ultima, la travolgente immigrazione dai Paesi extracomunitari e neocomunitari, che, a ritmo irregolare ma sempre sostenuto, ha interessato tutto il continente europeo, modificandone irreversibilmente la fisionomia. Un processo, quest'ultimo, che ha investito da tempo anche l'Italia (che in precedenza era stata invece per più di un secolo il primo Paese europeo di emigrazione), sua più esposta propaggine meridionale, immersa per tre quarti nel Mediterraneo, il mare, da molti secoli non più nostrum, che divide e unisce tre continenti: barriera e ponte, al tempo stesso, tra Paesi sviluppati e Paesi sottosviluppati, così come tra Paesi cristiani e Paesi islamici, cui si aggiunge la piccola ma importante enclave ebraica d'Israele, cioè i Paesi che ospitano le tre grandi religioni monoteistiche, tuttora in aspro conflitto nonostante gli ormai rituali richiami alla tolleranza, alla convivenza e al dialogo. 3 Non sarà inutile partire da un richiamo alle passate e presenti configurazioni del concetto di nazione nei principali Paesi europei, in relazione anche alle loro prevalenti culture politiche, che restano tuttora assai differenti, anche se risultano ormai in via di almeno parziale omologazione proprio per
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... not be. I thank RD Alexander, P. van den Berghe, N. Chagnon, I. DeVore, M. Dicke-mann, P. Ellison, W. Irons, GP Murdock, J. Shepher, B. Smuts, and P. Whitten for valuable thoughts and encouragement. JOHN HARTUNG ...
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Even from outside the Marxist school of thought it has been remarked that ‘Rule by decree has conspicuous advantages for the oppressive rule of extensive territories with heterogenous population’. This is because ‘its efficiency is... more
Even from outside the Marxist school of thought it has been remarked that ‘Rule by decree has conspicuous advantages for the oppressive rule of extensive territories with heterogenous population’. This is because ‘its efficiency is superior because it ignores all intermediary stages between issuance and application and it prevents political reasoning by the people. It can easily overcome the variety of local customs and need not rely on the necessarily slow process of development of general law. It is most helpful for the establishment of a centralised administration because it overrides automatically all matters of local autonomy.’1
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This book ("Marx: passato, presente, futuro", Meltemi, 2021) is a new, revised and updated edition of "Marx and the Third World", wich was published in Italian (Il Saggiatore, Milan, 1972), Spanish (Amorrortu, Buenos Aires, 1974), English... more
This book ("Marx: passato, presente, futuro", Meltemi, 2021) is a new, revised and updated edition of "Marx and the Third World", wich was published in Italian (Il Saggiatore, Milan, 1972), Spanish (Amorrortu, Buenos Aires, 1974), English (Macmillan, London, and Humanties Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J., 1977 and 1982) and Chinese (Academy of the Social Sciences, Pekin). Its main subjects are: Marx' theory of historical development, the Asiatic mode of production, the past and present of India, China and Russia, and the perspectives of these countries.
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The book is a new, revised and updated edition of "Marx e il Terzo Mondo", which appeared in Italian in 1971 (C.S. Terzo Mondo, Milan) and 1972 (Il Saggiatore, Milan) ans was translated into Spanish ("Marx and the Third World", Amorrortu,... more
The book is a new, revised and updated edition of "Marx e il Terzo Mondo", which appeared in Italian in 1971 (C.S. Terzo Mondo, Milan) and 1972 (Il Saggiatore, Milan) ans was translated into Spanish ("Marx and the Third World", Amorrortu, Buenos Aires), English ("Marx and the Third World, Macmillan, London, and Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, 1977 and 1982) and Chinese (Academy of the Social Sciencesm, Peking). The book analyses the thought of Marx, with specific attention to the Asiatic mode of production; India, China and Russia; the revolution in the developing countries; the so-called "socialist" revolutions; as well as the later involution of these revolution and the formation in Russia and China of a form of "bureaucratic collectivism". The main part of the book presents an alternative scheme of historical development.
Research Interests: Political Sociology, Marxism, Political Science, Political History, Philosophy of Karl Marx, and 15 morePhilosophy of History, Marxist theory, Indian ancient history, Modern Japanese History, Russian Revolution, Early China, Contemporary China, Karl Marx, 19th century Russian History, Anthropology of Socialism and Postsocialism, Theories of Socialism, Urss, Karl Marx Theory of the Mode of Production, Bruno Rizzi, and Leon Trotsky
The book is a new, revised and updated edition of "Marx e il Terzo Mondo", which appeared in Italian in 1971 (C.S. Terzo Mondo, Milan) and 1972 (Il Saggiatore, Milan) ans was translated into Spanish ("Marx and the Third World", Amorrortu,... more
The book is a new, revised and updated edition of "Marx e il Terzo Mondo", which appeared in Italian in 1971 (C.S. Terzo Mondo, Milan) and 1972 (Il Saggiatore, Milan) ans was translated into Spanish ("Marx and the Third World", Amorrortu, Buenos Aires), English ("Marx and the Third World, Macmillan, London, and Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, 1977 and 1982) and Chinese (Academy of the Social Sciencesm, Peking). The book analyses the thought of Marx, with specific attention to the Asiatic mode of production; India, China and Russia; the revolution in the developing countries; the so-called "socialist" revolutions; as well as the later involution of these revolution and the formation in Russia and China of a form of "bureaucratic collectivism". The main part of the book presents an alternative scheme of historical development.
Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Economic History, Political Sociology, Marxism, and 15 morePolitical Science, Philosophy of Karl Marx, Philosophy of History, Indian ancient history, Bureaucratic Politics, Russian Revolution, Socialism, Post-Socialism, Japanese Culture, Early China, Contemporary China, Russia, Trotsky, Asiatic mode of production, and Bruno Rizzi
This is the third edition (completely revised and uptodated) of "Marx e il Terzo Mondo" (Milan, 1971 ans 1972), translated into English ("Marx and the Third World", Macmillan, London, and Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ., 1977... more
This is the third edition (completely revised and uptodated) of "Marx e il Terzo Mondo" (Milan, 1971 ans 1972), translated into English ("Marx and the Third World", Macmillan, London, and Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ., 1977 and 1982); into Spanish ("Marx y el Tercer Mundo", Amorrortu, Buenos Aires, 1974); and into Chinese (Academy of Social Sciences. Pekin, 1982). It analyses the Marx's thought, with special attention to India, China and Russia; and defines the post-revolutuonary regimes instaured in Russia and Chinas as different forms "bureucratic collectivism", seen as the peculiar form of modernization of what Marx had called "Asiatic mode of production" (to which large part of the volume is dedicated).
Research Interests: Economic History, Political Sociology, Marxism, Political Science, History of Capitalism, and 15 morePolitical History, Marxist theory, Indian ancient history, Social History, Japanese Literature and Culture, Russian Revolution, Socialism, Early China, Contemporary China, Third World, Russia, Soviet Union, 19th century Russian History, Trotsky, and Bruno Rizzi
Il capolavoro di Alessandro Manzoni è un'opera complessa e ricca di significati, che può essere apprezzata da lettori di tutte le età. Tuttavia, la lingua utilizzata da Manzoni, risalente all'Ottocento, può rappresentare una barriera per... more
Il capolavoro di Alessandro Manzoni è un'opera complessa e ricca di significati, che può essere apprezzata da lettori di tutte le età. Tuttavia, la lingua utilizzata da Manzoni, risalente all'Ottocento, può rappresentare una barriera per i lettori moderni. Negli ultimi anni sono state pubblicate diverse trascrizoni dei Promessi Sposi in lingua moderna. Una delle più recenti e apprezzate è quella del prof. Umberto Melotti. Il lavoro è accurato e rispettoso dell'originale, lo stile è fluido e scorrevole, il linguaggio è moderno e comprensibile. La trascrizione riesce a trasmettere la bellezza e la profondità dell'opera di Manzoni, rendendola accessibile a un pubblico più vasto. Uno dei punti di forza della trascrizione di Melotti è la sua fedeltà all'originale, poiché mantiene il più possibile il significato e il tono dell'opera di Manzoni. Mi riferisco, ad esempio, alla descrizione della peste di Milano. Il linguaggio utilizzato è moderno e attuale, e il testo è facile da seguire. Questo rende la lettura dei Promessi Sposi più accessibile a un pubblico più vasto, anche a coloro che non sono abituati a leggere testi classici.