Etica, volontà e politica. Gli anni di apprendistato di Álvaro Cunhal

Journal title HISTORIA MAGISTRA
Author/s Joao Arsénio Nunes
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2013/13
Language Italian Pages 13 P. 34-46 File size 701 KB
DOI 10.3280/HM2013-013004
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

Álvaro Cunhal (1913-2005), the leader of the Portuguese Communist Party for about half a century, was renowned for his ethical profile, and ethical concerns are constantly present in his political writings, as well as in his artistic and literary works. This article tries to assess his youth writings, written during the 1930s, in the perspective of the connection between philosophical principles and his development as a communist politician. A parallel is established with Gramsci’s thought, for whom the ethics of historical materialism entails the relationship between human will and objective conditions. Starting from the "negative will" of the opposition to Salazar’s dictatorship, Cunhal sketches the project of an antifascist revolution that can be understood as the constrution of a new "collective national - popular will".

Keywords: Pcp, ethics and politics, collective will, Gramsci, antifascism.

  1. Andrade L., Intelectuais, Utopia e Comunismo. A inscrição do marxismo na cultura portuguesa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/FCT, Lisboa 2010.
  2. Bukharin, N., A Teoria do Materialismo Histórico: http://www.marxists.org/portugues/bukharin/1921/teoria/index.htm#topp
  3. Cunhal, A., Obras Escolhidas, vol.I, edições Avante!, Lisboa 2007.
  4. Cunhal, A., Felicidade e Infelicidade, in «Estudantes livres», nº 5, 23 de Fevereiro de 1931.
  5. Cunhal, A, Personalidade, in «Estudantes livres», nº 7, de 1 de Junho de 1931.
  6. Dimitroff g. et alii, Origens da Estratégia Frentista, Iniciativas Editoriais, Lisboa 1975.
  7. Dimitrov G., Youth against fascism: speech at the opening of the sixth congress of the Youth Communist International: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/09_25.htm
  8. Frosini F., Volontà, in G. Liguori e P. Voza (a cura di), Dizionario Gramsciano, Carocci, Roma 2009.
  9. Gramsci A., Lettere dal Carcere, La biblioteca dell’identità de L’Unione Sarda, Cagliari 2003.
  10. Gramsci A., Quaderni del Carcere, edizione critica dell’Istituto Gramsci a cura di V. Gerratana, Einaudi, Torino 1975.
  11. Natoli C., Fascismo, Democrazia, Socialismo: comunisti e socialisti tra le due guerre, Franco Angeli, Milano 2000.
  12. Pereira J. P., Álvaro Cunhal. Uma biografia política, vol.1, Temas e Debates, Lisboa 1999.
  13. Pita A P., Conflito e Unidade no Neo-Realismo Português, Campo das Letras, Porto 2003.

Joao Arsénio Nunes, Etica, volontà e politica. Gli anni di apprendistato di Álvaro Cunhal in "HISTORIA MAGISTRA" 13/2013, pp 34-46, DOI: 10.3280/HM2013-013004