Francesco Saverio Merlino
Francesco Saverio Merlino (born 9 September 1856 in Naples; deceased 30 June 1930 in Rome) was an Italian lawyer, anarchist activist and theorist of libertarian socialism.
[edit] Life
Merlino started to participate in the militant anarchist movement in Italy during his university studies.
In 1884 he went into exile in England and also travelled to the USA. After he returned to Italy in 1894 he was arrested and had to spend two years in prison.
In the following years he developed his theory of libertarian socialism in arguments with his friend Errico Malatesta.
In 1900 he defended Gaetano Bresci, an Italian-American anarchist who assassinated the king of Italy, Umberto I, in response to the Bava-Beccaris massacre. Despite successfully killing the monarch, Bresci was not sentenced to death, making him the only person to ever kill a monarch (without toppling the monarchy) and not be executed.[1]
[edit] Major works
- Socialismo o monopolismo? (1887)
- L’Italie telle qu’elle est (1890)
- gli opuscoli Necessità e basi di un accordo (1892)
- L’individua-lismo nell’anarchismo (1893)
- Pro e contro il socialismo (1897)
- L’utopia collettivista e la crisi del “socialismo scientifico” (1898)
- Formes et essence du socialisme (1898)
- Fascismo e democrazia (1924)
- Politica e Magistratura dal 1860 ad oggi in Italia (1925)
- Il socialismo senza Marx. Studi e polemiche per una revisione della dottrina socialista (1897-1930), Massimiliano Boni, Bologna 1974.
- Il problema economico e politico del socialismo. (1948)
[edit] References
- ^ Allen, John L., Jr. 2001, September 14. "He executed justice - papal execution Giovanni Battista Bugatti's life and work". National Catholic Reporter.
- Francesco Saverio Merlino: Tra anarchismo tradizionale e socialismo liberale. Interview with Gianpiero Landi, [1].
- Lucio Gabellini: Merlino: un socialismo "diverso" [2]
- Giampiero Domenico Berti: Francesco Saverio Merlino. Dall'anarchismo socialista al socialismo liberale (1856-1930). Franco Angeli Editore Milano. Mailand 1993.
- Mirko Roberti: Il "riformismo rivoluzionario" di Saverio Merlino." Un'intelligenza critica tra marxismo e anarchismo. Il basilare dilemma socialista in un tentativo originale di mediare, in una sintesi eclittica e personale, le opposte istanze. [3]
- Franco Melandri: Un convegno su Francesco S. Merlino [4]
