Cesare Seassaro (25 March 1891 in

Pavia Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the capit ...

, Italy – 15 November 1921 in

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, Croatia) was a socialist journalist and publicist. In 1918, he authored ''Cooperazione e municipalizzazione. La personalità giuridica dell’azienda municipalizzata''. Originally from a bourgeois family, Seassaro became an involved Catholic socialist after participating in the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. He eventually became an early member of the

Communist Party of Italy The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current ...

. Already in 1919 he wrote for the weekly

L'Ordine Nuovo ''L'Ordine Nuovo'' (Italian for "The New Order") was a weekly newspaper established on 1 May 1919, in Turin, Italy, by a group, including Antonio Gramsci, Angelo Tasca and Palmiro Togliatti, within the Italian Socialist Party. The paper was the ...

founded by

Antonio Gramsci Antonio Francesco Gramsci ( , , ; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a ...

. Seassaro began working for the Triestine communist newspaper ''

Il Lavoratore ''Il Lavoratore'' ("The Worker") was the organ of the Austrian Socialist party and a pacifist paper with ties to Austria through links between Italian and Austrian Socialist parties, out in Trieste.Risa B. Sodi, ''Narrative and Imperative: The Fir ...

'' in September 1921, after it had restarted publication following a Fascist attack in February 1921. Seassaro wrote various articles for ''Il Lavoratore'' that fused communist theory and current events on topics such as internationalism, Fascism, and revolution. Additionally, he contributed his perspectives on the compatibility of communism and Christianity. Seassaro traveled to

Fiume Rijeka ( , , ; also known as Fiume hu, Fiume, it, Fiume ; local Chakavian: ''Reka''; german: Sankt Veit am Flaum; sl, Reka) is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia (after Zagreb and Split). It is located in Primor ...

in November 1921 to support the construction of the

Communist Party of Fiume The Communist Party of Fiume ( it, Partito Comunista di Fiume – Sezione della III.a Internazionale) was instituted in November 1921, after the proclamation of the Free State of Fiume created by the Treaty of Rapallo, 1920, Treaty of Rapallo. Th ...

. He died there in his sleep of accidental gas intoxication.

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1891 births 1921 deaths Writers from Pavia {{Italy-politician-stub