Cesare Seassaro (25 March 1891 in

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, Italy – 15 November 1921 in

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, Croatia) was a socialist journalist and publicist. In 1918, he authored ''Cooperazione e municipalizzazione. La personalità giuridica dell’azienda municipalizzata''. Originally from a bourgeois family, Seassaro became an active Catholic socialist after participating in the

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. He eventually became an early member of the

Communist Party of Italy The Italian Communist Party (, PCI) was a communist and democratic socialist political party in Italy. It was established in Livorno as the Communist Party of Italy (, PCd'I) on 21 January 1921, when it seceded from the Italian Socialist Part ...

.In 1919, he wrote for the weekly

L'Ordine Nuovo ''L'Ordine Nuovo'' (Italian for "The New Order") was a weekly newspaper established on 1 May 1919, in Turin, Italy, by a group, including Antonio Gramsci, Angelo Tasca and Palmiro Togliatti, within the Italian Socialist Party. The paper was the ...

founded by

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. Seassaro began working for the Triestine communist newspaper ''

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'' in September 1921, after it had restarted publication following a Fascist attack in February 1921. Seassaro wrote various articles for ''Il Lavoratore'' that fused communist theory and current events on topics such as internationalism, Fascism, and revolution. Additionally, he contributed his perspectives on the compatibility of communism and Christianity. Seassaro traveled to

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in November 1921 to support the construction of the

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. He died there in his sleep of accidental gas intoxication.

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1891 births 1921 deaths Writers from Pavia {{Italy-journalist-stub