biography
pronunciation:
[labreeohla]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1873–1959)
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| biography:
| Italian politician, born in Naples, Campania, SW Italy. He joined the Socialist Party in 1895 and was committed to spreading Marxist doctrine and fighting reformist tendencies. A trade union organizer, he founded Avanguardia Socialista (‘Socialist Avant-garde’) to diffuse his ideas. He left the Socialist Party in 1907 and was in favour of Italian intervention in Libya and in World War 1. Strongly anti-Fascist, he lived in exile until 1937. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly and a senator from 1948. |
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