This volume can be divided in two parts. The former includes notes and background material selected and collected by the Author in 1965-70, the latter comprises what we described as “book excerpts”.
Based on the manuscripts included in the first part – which are introduced by a brief outline of the topics to be treated – Cervetto delivered a series of lectures in Savona, Genoa and Milan in Spring-Summer 1971. Their subject matter was the origins of the Marxist method, starting from the highest results achieved by bourgeois theoretical thought. They were addressed to young people who were approaching Leninism and their purpose was to catch a link with practical struggles, to find and train revolutionary cadres able to carry out the painstaking work of establishing workers’ clubs in the city areas in close connection with factory militants.