Born in Vercelli in 1861, Luigi Galleani is considered, with Errico Malatesta, the most influential militant of Italian-speaking anarchism. A tireless thinker, agitator, and public speaker, he attracted large numbers of workers to the revolutionary cause in Italy and the United States. This book, the result of a fruitful collaboration between Antonio Senta, a scholar of anarchist history, and Sean Sayers, a philosopher and Galleani’s grandson, is the biography of one of the most charismatic exponents of workers’ struggles in Europe and the United States between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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PREFACE, by Sean Sayers
PART ONE: INSURGENT IN ITALY
Chapter I: From Law Student to Labor Organizer
Chapter II: La Boje!
Chapter III: The Redemption of Labor
Chapter IV: From Il Nuovo Combattiamo! to L’Attaque
Chapter V: With Reclus on Lake Geneva
Chapter VI: Come, Oh May
Chapter VII: “The helm is to be built”
Chapter VIII: Against Legalitarian Socialism
Chapter IX: In Prison
Chapter X: Internal Exile and the Question of Protest Candidates
Chapter XI: From Island to Island
INTERLUDE: ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
Chapter XII: In Egypt
Chapter XIII: Running Again
PART TWO: THE MOST DANGEROUS ANARCHIST IN AMERICA
Chapter XIV: The Revolt of the Dyers
Chapter XV: La Questione Sociale
Chapter XVI: Strike!
Chapter XVII: A Spaniard in Montreal
Chapter XVIII: Among the Quarry Workers of Vermont
Chapter XIX: Cronaca Sovversiva
Chapter XX: The End of Anarchism?
Chapter XXI: La salute è in voi!
Chapter XXII: A Little Bit of Theory
Chapter XXIII: The Mexican Revolution
Chapter XXIV: From Vermont to Massachusetts
Chapter XXV: Facing the World War
Chapter XXVI: Nulla dies sine linea
Chapter XXVII: Free Country
Chapter XXVIII: Adversus hostem aeterna auctoritas!
EPILOGUE: RETURN TO ITALY
Chapter XXIX: In the Thick of the Biennio Rosso
Chapter XXX: The Last Resistance
Index
O autorze
Sean Sayers is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England. He has published extensively on topics in Marxist and Hegelian philosophy.