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Mazzini and Marx Thoughts Upon Democracy in Europe
Salvo Mastellone
Book Code: C8076
ISBN: 0-275-98076-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98076-4
232 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/2003
List Price: $99.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The 15 chapters and appendix reveal firsthand accounts in Mazzini's own writing that contribute to understanding his contribution to European democratic thoughts and ideals. Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above.
    —Choice     September 2004
  • It is hard to imagine a more authoritative craftsman; Mastellone's painstaking labors offer a highly rewarding examination....In the end, Mastellone suggests that the issues raised in Mazzini's assessment remain crucial for an understanding of fundamental movements of the modern world--nationalism, communism, and democracy. Whether one agrees or disagrees with Mastellone, the seriousness of his book's substance makes reading it an enriching and stimulating experience.
    —Journal of Modern History     June 2006
Description: Between August 1846 and April 1847, Guiseppe Mazzini, in London exile, published six articles in English in the People's Journal, the last of which was on "Communism." With these articles, which became known in his native country in an 1852 Italian reworking, Mazzini powerfully inserted himself into the debate on the nature of democracy, alongside the most illustrious intellectuals of the time, Tocqueville, Blanc, Cabet, and Proudon. In two of his pieces, Mazzini answered the democratic communists-the Fraternal Democrats-who in 1847 invited the twenty-eight year old Karl Marx to London to rebut Mazzini's perceptive criticisms of communism and to explore a new possible elaboration of the ideology. Mastellone confronts the English text of Mazzini with the German text of Marx and traces an almost forgotten theoretical contest that has been ignored, but remains crucial for an understanding of two fundamental movements of the modern world: communism and democracy.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Spencer M. DiScala
  • Introduction
  • In London: The Idea of Democracy
  • The Italian Workers' Union: "A Democratic Society"
  • The Opening Letters Affair
  • Italy and the English Institutions (1845)
  • Mazzini and the Northern Star
  • The "German Communism"
  • The Polish Democracy and the Cracow Manifesto
  • The Democratic Communists of Brussels: Engels and Marx
  • Thoughts upon Democracy in Europe
  • Agreement and Disagreement on Democracy
  • The People's International League: "A Democratic Society"
  • The Deficiencies of Communism and Cosmopolitism
  • The Replies of the Cosmopolites
  • The Communist League in London and the Communist Manifesto
  • The Political Language of the "Thoughts"
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Subject Index
  • Index of Political Terms
LC Card Number: 2003053551
LCC Class: JC423
Dewey Class: 321
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