Andrea Costa

Andrea Costa ( born November 30, 1851 in Imola, † January 19, 1910 in Imola ebf. ) was a socialist politician and journalist, anarchist background in Italy in the late 19th and early 20th century. He founded in 1881 one of the first socialist parties of Italy, the Partito Socialista Italiano Rivoluzionario ( PSRI ), for which he was elected in 1882 as the first Italian socialist deputy to the National Parliament ( Chamber of Deputies ). The party merged in 1893 with the participation of Costas with the Party of Italian workers to the Italian Socialist Party (PSI).

Life

Costa studied in Bologna literature, but interrupted his studies under the influence of the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin off, and turned to the dissemination of its theories. He supported Bakunin organization in the later first designated International International Workingmen's Association ( IAA). In 1871 he founded the magazine The labor union, two years after the exclusion of the anarchist wing of the IAA 1874, the newspaper Il Martello (translated: The Hammer). On the pretext of preparing a revolutionary conspiracy, he was convicted in the same year to two years' imprisonment. Then - in the same year in which Bakunin died - Costa emigrated to Paris in 1876. But even in France, he was suspended due to his anarchist activity repression and was arrested several times. With his temporary partner, the originating from Russia revolutionary feminist Anna Kuliscioff that he had met in exile in Switzerland, he returned to Italy in 1880. There, Costa turned more and more on the Bakunin's theories and approached rapidly the social democratic- Marxist ideology. In Milan, he first founded the International Journal of socialism, and finally in 1881 the Avanti (not to be confused with the established 15 years later party organ of the Italian Socialist Party Avanti ).

1882 Costa was elected the first socialist deputy for the previously co-founded by him in PSRI, the Socialist- Revolutionary Party of Italy ( Partito Socialista Italiano Rivoluzionario ) to the Italian Parliament. 1892 joined the different factions of socialists on a unification congress in Genoa under the umbrella of the Party of the Italian working together, one year later - should be renamed Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI ) - after the merger with PSRI. Andrea Costa is considered one of its founders. The Italian Parliament he was a member until his death in 1910.

Works

• Vita di Michele Bacunin. Soc. Azzoguide, Bologna 1877