Influence of Lukacs on the Italian Revolutionary Movements of the 20th Century

The aim of this paper is to delve further into the influence of the thought of Gyorgy Lukacs (1885-1971) on the Italian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and 1970s. We focus on the two most internationally salient movements: Workerism and the Red Brigades. As research techniques, we have used both the analysis of written and audiovisual records and an in-depth interview with Toni Negri, one of the most prominent members of Workerism. The results prove that Lukacs had much more influence on the workerist thinking - more refined in theoretical and philosophical terms-than on the Red Brigades whose theoretical development proved to be very limited.