''Critica marxista'' is a political magazine published in Rome, Italy. Founded in 1963 it is one of the earliest political periodicals in the country.

History and profile

''Critica marxista'' was launched in 1963. It was started by

Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy. The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) ...

(PCI) as a theoretical journal. The founding editors were

Luigi Longo Luigi Longo (15 March 1900 – 16 October 1980), also known as Gallo, was an Italian communist politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party from 1964 to 1972. He was also the first foreigner to be awarded an Order of Lenin. Early ...

Alessandro Natta Alessandro Natta (7 January 1918 – 23 May 2001), was an Italian politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from 1984 to 1988. Before and during the World War Born in Oneglia, Natta attended the Scuola Normale Superiore ...

and

Emilio Sereni Emilio Sereni (13 August 1907, Rome – 20 March 1977, Rome) was an Italian writer, politician and historian. Biography Born into a Jewish family of anti-fascist intellectuals, Sereni graduated from the Liceo Terenzio Mamiani in Rome. Broth ...

. Until 1992 the magazine remained as a publication of the PCI. The PCI were planning to close down the publication, but a group of Italian intellectuals led by Aldo Tortorella and Aldo Zanardo bought it. The magazine covers analyses and contributions to rethink the leftist politics. It has been published on a bimonthly basis by Editori Riuniti from its start. The headquarters is in Rome. Leading contributors of ''Critica marxista'' include Louis Althusser, Nicola Badaloni, Franco Cassano, Umberto Cerroni, Biagio De Giovanni,

Cesare Luporini Cesare Luporini (20 August 1909 – 9 April 1993) was an Italian philosopher, historian of philosophy and politician. Biography Luporini was born in Ferrara, but lived in Florence since childhood. Luporini graduated from the University of Floren ...

, Giacomo Marramao, Giuseppe Prestipino, Silvano Tagliagambe,

Edoardo Sanguineti Edoardo Sanguineti (9 December 1930 – 18 May 2010) was a Genoese poet, writer and academic, universally considered one of the major Italian authors of the second half of the twentieth century. Biography During the 1960s he was a leader of th ...

Luciano Canfora Luciano Canfora (; born 5 June 1942) is an Italian classicist and historian. Born in Bari, Canfora obtained his first degree in Roman History in 1964 at Pisa University. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Bari. Hi ...

Mario Tronti Mario Tronti (born 24 July 1931 in Rome) is an Italian philosopher and politician, considered one of the founders of the theory of operaismo in the 1960s. An active member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) during the 1950s, he was, with Ran ...

and Giuseppe Vacca,

Remo Bodei Remo Bodei (3 August 1938 – 7 November 2019) was an Italian philosopher. He was a professor of the history of philosophy at the UCLA University, Los Angeles California, and also had taught at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore ...

Massimo Cacciari Massimo Cacciari (; born 5 June 1944) is an Italian philosopher, politician and public intellectual. Biography Born in Venice, Cacciari graduated in philosophy from the University of Padua (1967), where he also received his doctorate, writing a ...

, Eric Hobsbawm.

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