L’Ordine Nuovo

Abstract

Inspired by that, L’Ordine Nuovo started being published in May 1919, with the subtitle “Review of Socialist Culture”, to “indicate that the vehicle was intended for proletarians, workers, intellectuals, with a specific objective: to arm the working class with consciousness and will to build a socialist society”. The weekly came along on the very eve of the red biennium, “the beautiful years”, as Gramsci defined them. However, at birth, L’Ordine Nuovo was doomed to a very short life, paralyzed by the clash of two opposing political and editorial lines, Gramsci’s and Angelo Tasca’s. The conflict between the two approaches arose with no chance of resolution after the Congress of the Chamber of Labor of Turin, in which Tasca intervened defending that the councils should be under the control of the unions, a stance classified by Gramsci as “reactionary”, which led to significant divergence of opinion that whole year.