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Letters from inside the Italian Communist Party to Louis Althusser

1973; Telos; Volume: 1973; Issue: 16 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3817/0673016150

1940-459X

T. Good,

Political theory and Gramsci

Abstract In these pages a significant effort is undertaken to bridge the perennial gap between Marxist-Leninist theory and practice. Maria Antonietta Macciocchi is particularly suited to this task. She has been a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) for over twenty years. She participated in the underground during World War II and has served as a foreign correspondent for L'Unità. In 1968, eager to re-establish contact with the Italian working class, Macciocchi accepted the Party's proposal that she become a candidate from parliament from Naples. Before departing from Paris where she had been serving as L'Unità's correspondent she suggested to her friend Louis Althusser that they conduct a political correspondence.