Andrea Costa
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BiographyEdit
Andrea Costa was born on 29 November 1851, in the Romagnol city of Imola, into a poor Catholic family. In 1870, he graduated from secondary school and moved to the regional capital of Bologna, where he worked as a clerk to pay for his education at the University of Bologna.Template:Sfn
Anarchist activismEdit
During his years as a student, he joined the International Workingmen's Association (IWA), became a follower of the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin and adopted the philosophy of revolutionary socialism.Template:Sfnm In August 1872, Costa presided over an Italian Congress of the IWA in Rimini, where delegates voted to split from the Marxists and affiliate themselves with the Anti-authoritarian International.Template:Sfnm Later that year, Costa attended the St. Imier Congress as an Italian delegate.Template:Sfn During this period, Costa established the anarchist publications Fascio Operaio and Il Martello.Template:Sfn Under Costa's influence, anarchism spread rapidly throughout the Romagna region.Template:Sfn
The Panic of 1873 led to a period of economic depression and rising social conflict in Italy.Template:Sfn In response to the rising socio-economic crisis, Costa organised the 1874 Bologna insurrection.Template:Sfnm The insurrection was intended to start in Romagna and spread throughout the rest of the country, but it quickly collapsed.Template:Sfnm Already aware of the planned uprising, the Italian authorities arrested Costa before the insurgents had even mobilised.Template:Sfn He was subsequently imprisoned for his role in the attempted uprising.Template:Sfnm After 18 months in prison, he was acquitted of the charges against him and released.Template:Sfn
Following the defeat of the 1874 insurrection, Costa began reevaluating his political ideology.Template:Sfn He was fiercely criticised by many of his comrades for "excessive optimism" in revolution, which led him to become disillusioned in the prospects of revolutionary change through conspiracy and insurrection, and to advocate for gradualism.Template:Sfn In 1877, when Carlo Cafiero made plans for an insurrection in Southern Italy, Costa refused to support it, thinking the conditions were not right and the plan poorly-made. He instead remained in Romagna, waiting to see if it would be successful before taking action.Template:Sfn After the suppression of the insurrection, Costa fled to Switzerland in order to escape the political repression that followed.Template:Sfnm By this time, he had completely lost faith in revolutionary change, but resisted fully adopting a legalistic perspective and instead sought a middle path between revolutionary and reformist socialism.Template:Sfn During his exile, he met and married the Russian revolutionary Anna Kuliscioff, who influenced him to complete his move away from anarchism towards reformist socialism.Template:Sfnm
In August 1879, Costa published the open letter "To My Friends in Romagna",Template:Sfnm in the socialist newspaper La Plebe.Template:Sfnm In the letter, he publicly announced his ideological conversion,Template:Sfnm which influenced many other Romagnol anarchists to adopt reformist socialism.Template:Sfnm This attracted strong criticism from Carlo Cafiero, who had remained a staunch partisan of insurrectionary anarchism. He denounced Costa's advocacy of participation in parliamentary politics, which he equated with an abandonment of socialism and support for the capitalist status quo.Template:Sfn The following year, Cafiero openly decried Costa as an "apostate" who had changed his political beliefs in order to advance his career, and made public death threats against him.Template:Sfn
Socialist political careerEdit
In 1880, Costa returned to Italy and established the Rivista Internazionale del Socialismo. The following year, he established the weekly newspaper Avanti!.Template:Sfnm In August 1881, Costa established the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Romagna (PSRR) in Rimini.Template:Sfnm In the 1882 Italian general election, Costa was elected to the Chamber of Deputies,Template:Sfnm as a representative for Ravenna.Template:Sfn This made him the first socialist to be elected to the Italian Parliament.Template:Sfnm
During his time in parliament, Costa pushed for the advancement of social legislation and campaigned against the rise of Italian colonialism.Template:Sfn While using parliament as a platform for socialist ideas, he also remained committed to supporting extra-parliamentary activity such as strike actions.Template:Sfn He oversaw the reorganisation of the Romagnol labour movement, encouraging the development of trade unions and worker cooperatives.Template:Sfn
Costa sought to unify the disparate regional groupings of the Italian socialist movement into a national political party, but his efforts were frustrated by the workerists of Milan, who insisted party membership be restricted to the working class.Template:Sfn Although Costa finally expanded the PSRR into the Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party (PSRI) in 1884,Template:Sfnm it was still little more than a regional party based in Romagna.Template:Sfn Around this time, Kulliscioff left Costa for Filippo Turati.Template:Sfn In 1886, Costa backed the establishment of La Rivista italiana del socialismo by Antonio Lanzoni.Template:Sfn
In 1892, Costa participated in the Congress of Genoa, which established the Italian Socialist Party (PSI).Template:Sfnm Although he joined the party in December 1893, he found his humanitarian brand of socialism out of step with the predominantly Marxist and social-democratic middle class politicians of the new party. He continued to give speeches on behalf of the party and was repeatedly recognised as a leader at its congresses, but as the party fell into factional infighting, he slowly distanced himself from its other members.Template:Sfn In 1906, Costa presided over the party's Rome Congress, where he had to repeatedly demand order during a speech by the revolutionary syndicalist Arturo Labriola.Template:Sfn In 1909, Costa was elected as vice president of the Chamber of Deputies.Template:Sfn
Death and legacyEdit
On 19 January 1910, Costa died in his hometown of Imola.Template:Sfn The Italian socialist Alessandro Mussolini was strongly influenced by Costa, prompting him to give the middle name "Andrea" to his son Benito Mussolini.Template:Sfnm
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