Lucio Colletti facts for kids

Lucio Colletti (born December 8, 1924, in Rome, Italy – died November 3, 2001, in Venturina Terme, Campiglia Marittima, Italy) was an important Italian philosopher. He was known for his ideas about politics and society. People outside Italy started to know about him after a big interview was published in 1974.

Biography

Colletti studied philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome. He earned his degree with a paper about the ideas of Benedetto Croce. In 1951, he was inspired by another philosopher named Galvano Della Volpe.

Lucio Colletti was famous for disagreeing with some older philosophical ideas. He especially questioned the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Later in his life, he also became a critic of Marxism, which is a set of ideas about society and economics.

Colletti often changed his political views. He joined the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1949. He became an important person in the party's culture. In 1964, Colletti left the PCI. He felt the party was moving too far to the right.

In the 1970s, he supported the Socialist leader Bettino Craxi. From 1996 until he died, he was elected to the Italian parliament. He was part of Forza Italia, a political party led by Silvio Berlusconi.

Selected publications

• The Manifesto of 101
• "The Theory of the Crash". Telos, 13 (Fall 1972). New York: Telos Press.
• 1972 (1974) From Rousseau to Lenin
• 1973 (1979) Marxism and Hegel

See also

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