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From International Socialism, No.12, Spring 1963, p.32.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
Il Politechnico: Antologia
Lerici Milan.
In 1945, a weekly of politics and culture, economics and literature, marxism and pragmatism, was born out of a new Italy, an Italy without a past. Politechnico carried out a comprehensive critique of existing culture, and sought to link this critique to the wider European tradition, posing it in an authentic lyrical and critical tradition.
The publisher Lerici has produced now an anthology of the journal which provides an opportunity to survey what has happened since 1945. Politechnico began as a weekly, doubtful always of its future with so limited an audience. The violence of the class-war expressed itself through the mounting printers’ bills and the boycott by the distributing chains. Every publishing initiative has its season and its function – its ideals are never of eternal validity, but accepting an eternal deficit is to sabotage what little life might be possible. To gamble on a brief heroism is just to accept the indefensible level of bourgeois culture which it was Politechnico’s function to fight.
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