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VARELA PETITO, Gonzalo. Explaining Italian Underdevelopment: The Liberal Revolution of Piero Gobetti. Perf. latinoam. [online]. 2010, vol.18, n.36, pp.9-41. ISSN 0188-7653.

This article presents to the readers in Latin America the thought of the Italian liberal writer and politician Piero Gobetti (Torino 1900-Paris 1926) who was a close friend of Antonio Gramsci and one of the main intellectual influences on the work of the marxist peruvian thinker José Carlos Mariátegui. His most relevant book, La Rivoluzione Libérale, was translated into Spanish only recently but -as Mariátegui understood- some of Gobetti's ideas are very relevant to an analysis of Latin American socialformations. His very original "movement oriented" liberalism was influenced by the Russian revolution as well as by philosophers like Georges Sorel, Gaetano Mosca, Benedetto Croce and Henri Bergson.Gobetti's major concern in politics was to promote the emergence of a new ruling class. For a better comprehension of his thought, Gobetti's ideas are here compared with those of Gramsci and Mariátegui.

Palabras llave : Gobetti; liberalism; Latin America; Mariátegui; Gramsci.