![]() ![]() The Italian Communist Party (PCI) wasn’t as sectarian as the French Communist Party or even the Communist Party USA at that time, so this didn’t create unbearable tension in my family. I immediately joined the radical Left, so I was to the Left of the Communist Party. I come from one Left-wing oriented family, my father being a Communist mayor in a small city. Tell me about joining the Left.Įnzo Traverso: I was born in Italy in 1957, and so joining the Left as an adolescent wasn’t uncommon at all it was usual for someone belonging to my generation, not only in Italy but also in many other countries during the 70s. Noah Spore: Let’s start at the beginning. On May 18, 2022, Platypus Affiliated Society member Noah Spore interviewed Enzo Traverso, author of Fire and Blood: The European Civil War 1914–1945 (2007), Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory (2017), and Revolution: An Intellectual History (2021). Platypus Review 152 | December 2022-January 2023 ![]()
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