1706 Communications their graves prematurely. He included in this last during the heyday of the Red Brigadists, To draw category reformist Marxists, such as Costa, whose life attention to the Marxist cultural dimension of Italian he called upon the proletariat to end at the earliest terrorism is not the exercise in Cold War liberalism opportunity. All of the figures who come after Cafiero that Martin accuses me of performing. It is rather an in my book-Antonio Labriola, Arturo Labriola, Be attempt to understand how ideas, in Perry Miller's nito Mussolini, Amadeo Bordiga, Antonio Gramsci, phrase, become "coherent and powerful imperatives to and Palmiro Togliatti-s-embodied the violent interpre human behavior." tation of Marxism. Each acted in a specific historical RICHARD DRAKE context, but the Marxist revolutionary tradition exhib University of Montana its striking uniformities through the generations. The extra parliamentary left, of which Red Brigadism was one element, championed this tradition in the 1970s James Martin does not wish to respond. Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/109/5/1706/15520 by guest on 24 September 2021 and 1980s. In explaining their reasons for killing THE EDITORS government labor economists Massimo D'Antona (1999) and Marco Biagi (2002), the current Red Brigadists denounced them, in the classic language of ERRATA revolutionary Marxism, for their reformist ideas. In claiming that I fail to consider other interpreta The cover illustration for the October 2004 issue was tions of Marxism, Martin overlooks my sustained mistakenly credited to the Hagley Museum of Wil mention of Filippo Turati, who relentlessly criticized mington, Delaware. It was actually reproduced with all the major figures in the book. Consequently, he kind permission of the Newark Museum, and the moves in and out of the narrative as the supreme editors regret the error. embodiment of the reformist Marxist tradition. Like Eduard Bernstein, Turati wanted to democratize The title of Helen Sjursen's book, reviewed in the Marxism and to humanize it. Giacomo Matteotti and October 2004 issue (PI'. 1202-1203), was incorrectly Elio Vittorini, who also appear in the book, carried on rendered. The correct title is The United States, West this reformist struggle within the Italian left, as did ern Europe and the Polish Crisis:International Relations Enrico Berlinguer, the leader of the Communist Party in the Second Cold War. The editors regret the error.
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