"This classic book, now translated into English, uses eyewitness accounts from those decades to trace uprisings of workers and students in Italy, a country where the extreme left was particularly strong...This sprawling book vividly portrays the chaos, confusion, and contradictions of those years."

Foreign Affairs

<i>"The Golden Horde</i> figures as an anthology and rather than being a straight ‘political’ or ‘workerist’ recounting the two authors include much information and assessment of the counter-cultural movements in Italy as well as the widespread factory struggles that mark the period . . . Moroni and Balestrini offer up this book as both a tool <i>mémoire</i> and as a way of charting 'the epoch defining passage from one phase of capitalism to another.'"

Penniless Press Magazine

The Golden Horde is a definitive work on the Italian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and ’70s. An anthology of texts and fragments woven together with an original commentary, The Golden Horde widens our understanding of the full complexity and richness of radical thought and practice in Italy during the 1960s and ’70s. The book covers the generational turbulence of Italy’s postwar period, the transformations of Italian capitalism, the new analyses by worker-focused intellectuals, the student movement of 1968, the Hot Autumn of 1969, the extra-parliamentary groups of the early 1970s, the Red Brigades, the formation of a radical women’s movement, the development of Autonomia, and the build-up to the watershed moment of the spontaneous political movement of 1977. Far from being merely a handbook of political history, The Golden Horde also sheds light on two decades of Italian culture, including the newspapers, songs, journals, festivals, comics, and philosophy that these movements produced. The book features writings by Sergio Bologna, Umberto Eco, Elvio Fachinelli, Lea Melandri, Danilo Montaldi, Toni Negri, Raniero Panzieri, Franco Piperno, Rossana Rossanda, Paolo Virno, and others, as well as an in-depth introduction by translator Richard Braude outlining the work’s composition and development.  
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Translator?’s Introduction (2020)Preface to the Second Edition (1997) by Primo Moroni Editor’s Note (1997) by Sergio BianchiPreface to the First Edition (1988) by Primo Moroni and Nanni Balestrini1. In the Beginning There Were the Cities, the Youth, the Workers2. The 1960s: The Generation of Existential Revolt3. The Birth of the Mass Worker and the Break-Up of the Communist Movement24. From the Classroom to Anti-Authoritarianism5. The Explosion of ’686. 1969: The Hot Autumn7. The Extra-Parliamentary Groups8.. Armed Struggle and Workers’ Autonomy9.. The Revolution in Feminism10. The Movement of ’7711. Communication, Culture, Intellectuals12. Forward! How? And Where To?AppendixDiehards of the State by Rossana RossandaBibliography
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"This classic book, now translated into English, uses eyewitness accounts from those decades to trace uprisings of workers and students in Italy, a country where the extreme left was particularly strong...This sprawling book vividly portrays the chaos, confusion, and contradictions of those years."
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781803091938
Publisert
2023-05-09
Utgiver
Vendor
Seagull Books London Ltd
Høyde
9 mm
Bredde
6 mm
Dybde
1 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
690

Biographical note

Nanni Balestrini (1935–2019) was a poet, experimental writer, visual artist, and founding member of both the avant-garde Gruppo ’63 and the revolutionary organization Potere Operaio. Primo Moroni (1936–98) was a writer, activist, and archivist. Founder of the Calusa bookshop in Milan, for decades he was a point of reference for radical movements and subcultures across Italy. Richard Braude is a translator living in Palermo, Sicily.