Two Italian writers, Gaetano Mosca and Antonio Gramsci, have been
very influential in twentieth-century political thought, the first
cast as a thoroughgoing conservative, the second as the model of a
humanistic Marxist. The author of this provocative book -- the
first systematic study of the connection between the two men --
maintains that they are closer to each other than is commonly
supposed -- that they in fact belong to the same political
tradition of democratic elitism.
Maurice A. Finocchiaro argues that Gramsci's political theory is
a constructive critique of Mosca's and that the key common element
is the attempt to combine democracy and elitism in a theoretical
system that defines them not as opposite but as compatible and
interdependent. Finocchiaro finds that a critical examination of
the major works of the two men demonstrates their shared belief in
the viability of democratic elitism and undermines the importance
of the distinction between right and left.
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