Marxism and idealism. Education on Labriola, Croce, Dear, Gramsci

Abstract

Repetita iuvant, said the Latins: this is the importance of retracing the Italian stages of the slow and unique evolution of that philosophy, largely of Marxist derivation, called “da praxis”, following the indications provided by a rich historiographical tradition on the subject. A path that, inaugurated at the time of the Second International by the atypical figure of Antonio Labriola, and later continued, although in different directions, by heterodox intellectuals such as Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile, found its point of arrival in the thought and work of Antonio Gramsci, which, in some way, took up and reworked the ideas of its predecessors.