Onorato Damen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian communist leader
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Place of Birth: Monte San Pietrangeli, Marche, Italy
About Onorato Damen
- Onorato Damen (4 December 1893 – 14 October 1979), was an Italian left communist revolutionary who was first active in the Italian Socialist Party and then the Communist Party of Italy.
- After being expelled, he worked with the organized Italian left, became one of the leaders of the Internationalist Communist Party, commonly known by their paper Battaglia Comunista.
- The Internationalist Communist Party, formally founded in 1943, was numerically the largest left communist organization in the post-World War II period.
- In 1952, Amadeo Bordiga, who had by then fully came out of retirement, split the party to found the International Communist Party, known by its paper Programma Comunista.
- A majority followed Damen whose group maintained the original name Internationalist Communist Party, the original theoretical journal Promoteo, as well as the paper Battaglia Communista.
- Onorato Damen was politically active his entire adult life.
- He was the author of books Bordiga Beyond the Myth and Gramsci between Marxism and Idealism.
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