The question communist: history and future of an idea

Abstract

The book now published by the publisher Boitempo is opened by the editor's warning that the text translated by Rita Coitinho is the result of two sources, one of which is a printed copy, left by Domenico Losurdo himself, and the second a digital file with the latest update of 2017, whose title – “provisional” according to the editor – was The communist question one hundred years after the October Revolution. This “provisional” title largely reflects the characteristics that the work has, as it is a dispute over the communist movement and its future, more than a dispute over the “idea of ​​communism”. In one sentence: we are faced with a text by a political activist who is defending his position on the future of the movement created by Marx and Engels in 1848.