Antonio Gramsci, Dominic Losurdo, Silvia Fredirici, etc. [Technically Michael Parenti if we go by his surname, and the fact that New York City is rightful Italian land (/s)].

Obviously there are good authors everywhere [and obviously AES states have more], but I feel like Italians get a slightly bigger proportion of non-AES originated publications compared to other places like Germany and Britain [although in the latter’s case, their intellectuals are so endlessly insufferable im genuinely considering calling for a ban on all publications from the god forsaken island]

Anyway, probably just confirmation bias, but if anyone has any thoughts on it then id love to here them

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    Italy is also a very extroverted culture with a collectivist, outgoing tradition that even today opposes social atomization that capitalism creates

    Almost the polar opposite of anglos. Italians are outgoing, social, community-focused / communitarian. Anglos are reserved, individualistic, and care more about unlimited freedom for individuals than collective betterment.

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      Facts, comrade. If we divert off-topic a little further and focus on anthropology, honestly, this comparison can be drawn in general between “superior whites” (Celto-Germanics) and the “non-whites” (including European Mediterraneans, at least historically). The ethno-nationalists claim to be so “superior” yet prefer the food of the “inferiors”, appropriate the cultural traditions and teachings of the “inferiors”, and even try to steal the history of the “inferiors”, by claiming it as their own or by attempting to sever the continuity between ancient civilizations they find fascinating and the modern populations, which are their descendants, to paint those as “inferiors”. This is a veeeery common trick in the playbook of aforementioned Anglo intellectuals, and the Fr*nch too.

      This is partially how the entire myth of “Western civilization” emerged, which is little more than a Eurocentric term for what became the political imperialist bloc we know today, rooted in the same narratives that gave us “civilizing mission”, “savages” and other nonsense - which are today recycled into the neocon language’s “spreading democracy”, “terrorists”, etc.