Enzo Traverso on Fascism, Marxism and Israel

Enzo Traverso is an Italian scholar of European intellectual history, and the author of several books on critical theory, Marxism, Fascism, revolution, and contemporary historiography. He teaches at Cornell University, and his most recent book is Revolution: An Intellectual History.

In this interview with his Verso editor, Sebastian Budgen, he discusses the origins of his political thinking, fascism in Europe in the 20th century, the new far-right, totalitarianism, and Israel. You can find all his work, here.

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Revolution

by Enzo Traverso

This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of “dialectical images”: Marx’s “locomotives of history,” Alexandra Kollontai’s sexua...

The New Faces of Fascism

by Enzo Traverso

What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to the years between the two world wars and envisions a dark landscape of viol...

Fire and Blood

by Enzo Traverso

Translated by David Fernbach

Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914–1945). Its overture was played out in the trenches of the ...

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