Mauro Scoccimarro

Italian economist and communist politician (1895–1972)

Mauro Scoccimarro


Minister of Finance
In office December 1945 – January 1947
Prime Minister	Alcide De Gasperi
Preceded by	Himself
Succeeded by	Pietro Campilli
In office June 1945 – December 1945
Prime Minister	Ferruccio Parri
Preceded by	Antonio Pesenti
Minister of Occupied Italy
In office 12 December 1945 – 21 June 1946
Prime Minister	Ivanoe Bonomi
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Office abolished

Personal details
Born	30 October 1895 Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Kingdom of Italy
Died	2 January 1972(1972-01-02) (aged 76) Rome, Italian Republic
Political party	Italian Communist Party
Alma mater	Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Mauro Scoccimarro (30 October 1895 – 2 January 1972) was an Italian economist and communist politician. He was one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party and served as the minister of finance between 1945 and 1947.^[1]

Early life and education

Scoccimarro was born in Udine on 30 October 1895.^[2]^[3] His father was of Apulian origin and an employee of the railways.^[4]

Scoccimarro graduated from Zanon Technical Institute in Udine in October 1913.^[4] He attended Ca' Foscari University of Venice and graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics and political science in 1922.^[2] He was involved in World War I and joined socialist party in 1917, but following the party congress in Livorno in 1921 he left the party to establish the Communist Party.^[1]^[5]

Career

Scoccimarro was among the Italian members of the fourth Comintern meeting held in 1922.^[5] In 1923 he was made a member of the Communist Party's secretariat together with Antonio Gramsci and Palmiro Togliatti.^[1] The same year the party leader Amadeo Bordiga was arrested, and the Comintern Executive Committee assigned a group of party members to lead the party, including Scoccimarro, Palmiro Togliatti, Egidio Gennari, Angelo Tasca and Umberto Terracini.^[6] In the party Scoccimarro was part of the faction led by Antonio Gramsci.^[7]

Scoccimarro was arrested by the Fascists in 1926 and was sentenced to 21 years in prison.^[1] He was released from the prison in 1937, but sent to the Island of Ponza, and then to the Island of Ventotene where he lived under police surveillance until July 1943 when the rule of Benito Mussolini, fascist leader of Italy, was toppled.^[1] Following the liberation of Rome in June 1944 Scoccimarro acted as high commissioner for the expulsion of fascists and was the minister of occupied Italy.^[1]^[8]^[9] In the latter capacity he found an opportunity to strengthen the positions of Italian communists in the northern regions of Italy.^[8]

Scoccimarro's next post was minister of finance which he held between June and December 1945 in the cabinet of Ferruccio Parri and then, between December 1945 and January 1947 in the second cabinet of Alcide De Gasperi.^[10] Scoccimarro was elected as a senator in 1948 and served there until 1972.^[1] He also served in different posts in the Communist Party. As of 1966 he was the president of the central control committee.^[11] In addition, he was vice president of the Senate from 1958 to 1972.^[2]

Death

Scoccimarro died in Rome on 2 January 1972.^[2]

Views and works

Scoccimarro was part of the Stalinist faction in the Communist Party in the early 1960s.^[12]

Scoccimarro was author of the following books in addition to his other writings:

La Costituente e il rinnovamento nazionale, 1946
Dottrina marxista e politica comunista, 1946
Su alcuni aspetti del nostro programma, 1946
Il secondo dopoguerra, 2 Bände, 1956
Nuova democrazia, 1958
Ideologia e politica, 1960
La crisi in Alto Adige, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1960.
Antonio Gramsci, in Trent'anni di storia italiana, 1915-1945. Dall'antifascismo alla Resistenza, Torino, Einaudi, 1961.
Ideologia marxista e programmazione economica, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1965.
Il rinnovamento e il rafforzamento del partito, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1966.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Mauro Scoccimarro Dies at 76; A Shaper of Italian Communism". The New York Times. Rome. 3 June 1972. p. 31. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Mauro Scoccimarro" (in Italian). ANPI. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
^ Guido Samarani (2018). "History and Memory: Italian Communists' Views of the Chinese Communist Party and the prc During the Early Cold War". In Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl; Marco Wyss; Valeria Zanier (eds.). Europe and China in the Cold War. Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill. pp. 134–150. doi:10.1163/9789004388123_008. ISBN 978-90-04-38559-7. S2CID 159022732.
^ ^a ^b "Scoccimarro Mauro (1895-1972)" (in Italian). Biographical Dictionary of Friulani. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
^ ^a ^b John Riddell, ed. (2015). To the Masses. Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921. Vol. 91. Leiden; Boston: Brill. p. 1250. doi:10.1163/9789004288034_038. ISBN 9789004288034.
^ Lelio La Porta (June 2018). "May 1922-November 1923, Davide Bidussa, Francesco Giasi and Maria Luisa Righi". International Gramsci Journal. 2 (4): 165.
^ Fulvio Bellini (1956). "The Italian CP: Part I: The Transformation of a Party, 1921-1945". Problems of Communism. 36: 39.
^ ^a ^b Norman Kogan (June 1953). "The Italian Action Party and the Institutional Question". The Western Political Quarterly. 6 (2): 293. doi:10.2307/442162. JSTOR 442162.
^ Stanislao G. Pugliese (1997). "Death in Exile: The Assassination of Carlo Rosselli". Journal of Contemporary History. 32 (3): 315. doi:10.1177/002200949703200302. S2CID 154546885.
^ Martinez Oliva; Juan Carlos (2007). "The Italian Stabilization of 1947: Domestic and International Factors". Institute of European Studies: 17.
^ Translations on International Communist Developments. Washington, DC: U.S. Joint Publications Research Service. 1966. p. 3-PA59.
^ "Italy: Grey-Flannel Communism". Time Magazine. 16 February 1962. Retrieved 28 February 2022.

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Preceded by Office established	Minister of Occupied Italy 1944–1945	Succeeded by Office abolished
Preceded by Antonio Pesenti	Minister pf Finance 1945–1947	Succeeded by Pietro Campilli

Italian Communist Party

Leadership

General Secretary	Amadeo Bordiga (1922–1923) Executive Committee (1923–1924) Antonio Gramsci (1924–1927) Camilla Ravera (1927–1930) Palmiro Togliatti (1930–1934) Ruggero Grieco (1934–1938) Palmiro Togliatti (1938–1964) Luigi Longo (1964–1972) Enrico Berlinguer (1972–1984) Alessandro Natta (1984–1988) Achille Occhetto (1988–1991)
President	Luigi Longo (1972–1980) Alessandro Natta (1989–1990) Aldo Tortorella (1990–1991)
Leader in the Chamber of Deputies	Luigi Longo (1946–1947) Palmiro Togliatti (1947–1964) Pietro Ingrao (1964–1972) Alessandro Natta (1972–1979) Fernando Di Giulio (1979–1981) Giorgio Napolitano (1981–1986) Renato Zangheri (1986–1990) Giulio Quercini (1990–1991)
Leader in the Senate	Mauro Scoccimarro (1948–1958) Umberto Terracini (1958–1973) Edoardo Pema (1973–1986) Gerardo Chiaromonte (1983–1986) Ugo Pecchioli (1986–1991)
Leader in the European Parliament	Giorgio Amendola (1979–1980) Guido Fanti (1980–1984) Giovanni Cervetti (1984–1989) Luigi Alberto Colajanni (1989–1991)