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Italian communist Domenico Losurdo dies
Domenico Losurdo helped found the new Italian Communist Party in 2016 and taught philosophy at the University of Urbino [Palazzo Madama Museo Civico d'Arte Antica]

TRIBUTES have been paid to renowned Italian communist intellectual Domenico Losurdo, who has died aged 76 after a short illness. 

He was an academic and “revolutionary political militant” who helped found the new Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 2016 and sat on its central committee.

Professor Losurdo was the dean of the faculty of education at the University of Urbino, where he taught philosophy. He was the author of many books, including Liberalism: A Counter-History.

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