The Dialogue between Catholics and Communists in Italy during the 1960s

This article addresses the problem of relationship between the Catholic and Marxist worlds in Italy in the Sixties. In a country with the largest Communist Party of the West and home to the Vatican, in the council and post-council years some intellectuals tried to create the conditions for a dialogu...

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Published in:Journal of the history of ideas 2014-07, Vol.75 (3), p.493-512
Main Author: Saresella, Daniela
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Catholic philosophy
Catholicism
Catholics
Christianity
Christians
Collaboration
Communism
Communists
History of ideas
Humanism
Ideology
Italy
Marxian economics
Marxism
Partisanship
Political culture
Political ideologies
Political parties
Politics
Religion
Zizek, Slavoj
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Summary:This article addresses the problem of relationship between the Catholic and Marxist worlds in Italy in the Sixties. In a country with the largest Communist Party of the West and home to the Vatican, in the council and post-council years some intellectuals tried to create the conditions for a dialogue between the two cultures: books and articles were thus published in magazines and journals. The dialogue would have repercussions in the Seventies when Aldo Moro and Enrico Berlinguer hypothesized not only a cultural and a intellectual collaboration but also a political one, between the Communist Party and the Christian Democrats.
ISSN:0022-5037
1086-3222
1086-3222
DOI:10.1353/jhi.2014.0021