11 Facts About Piero Gobetti

1.

Piero Gobetti was an Italian journalist, intellectual and radical liberal and anti-fascist.

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2.

Piero Gobetti was an exceptionally active campaigner and critic in the crisis years in Italy after the First World War and into the early years of Fascist rule.

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3.

Piero Gobetti attached himself to causes such as educational reform and votes for women led by the independent deputy, Gaetano Salvemini.

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4.

In 1920, Piero Gobetti was influenced by Antonio Gramsci, fellow ex-student and Communist editor of the L'Ordine Nuovo .

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5.

Deeply moved by the Russian Revolution, which he understood as a liberal event, Piero Gobetti conceived the working class as the leading subject of a liberal revolution.

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6.

Liberals, Piero Gobetti argued, should understand the term 'liberal' as adaptable to different classes and institutional arrangements other than the bourgeoisie and parliamentary democracy.

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7.

Resistance leader Ada Piero Gobetti was his wife and contributed to La Rivoluzione Liberale as well as other magazines.

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8.

Piero Gobetti was highly attentive to the dangers of Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party, which entered government in October, 1922.

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9.

In December 1924, Piero Gobetti began to edit a journal of European literary culture entitled Il Baretti.

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10.

Piero Gobetti used the journal to put into practice his idea of liberal anti-fascism and his conviction that the Italian people could learn to reject the insular nature of fascist culture by means of an education in European culture.

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11.

Piero Gobetti was beaten up in 1925 and escaped to Paris early the next year.

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