19108 Articles by: Abigail Torre
Abigail Torre grew up in Chile and now lives in Berkeley, California where she is cochair of the East Bay chapter of Democratic Socialists of America.
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“That Secret Fire”: Italo Calvino & the Primacy of Labor
This essay is the first in a short series I’m doing for this blog about the idea of “the party” on the left and its relevance at the current moment, inspired by Bhaskar’s post on Jodi Dean’s talk, “The Communist Horizon.” I start with the writer Italo Calvino and Italian lessons on the party from the fifties.
“That Secret Fire”: Italo Calvino & the Primacy of Labor
This essay is the first in a short series I’m doing for this blog about the idea of “the party” on the left and its relevance at the current moment, inspired by Bhaskar’s post on Jodi Dean’s talk, “The Communist Horizon.” I start with the writer Italo Calvino and Italian lessons on the party from the fifties.