Un crocevia politico e generazionale. Mazziniani, garibaldini, internazionalisti e il XII Congresso operaio del 1871

Abstract

 The article reconstructs the preparation, debate and consequences of the 1871 workers’ congress wanted by Giuseppe Mazzini to establish his hegemony over workers’ associations but also to contain the outflow of young republicans to the International Workers’ Association. The confrontation that developed was substantiated by a generational shift that, between the completion of the Risorgimento and the Paris Commune, facilitated the redefinition of the political cultures of Italian radicalism represented by Mazzinianism, Garibaldianism and the emerging internationalist socialism, in which the new post-Risorgimento democratic
generation redefined its own value landscape and ways of commitment.