What is Carlo Cafiero?
{{Infobox Person | name = Carlo Cafiero | image = Carlo Cafiero.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = | birth_date = September 1, 1846 | birth_place = &nbsp;[[Barletta]], [[Italy]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1892|07|17|1846|09|01}} | death_place = &nbsp;[[Nocera Inferiore]], [[Italy]] | occupation = Anarchist revolutionary, radical essayist, and political activist. }} '''Carlo Cafiero''' (September 1, 1846 - July 17, 1892) was an Italian [[anarchist]] and friend of [[Mikhail Bakunin]] during the second half of the 19th century. == Biography == === Early years === Carlo Cafiero was born in [[Barletta]], in the [[Apulia]] region of [[Italy]] on September 1st, 1846 from a rich and noble family of Southern Italy. His father was Carbonari in 1821, one of his brothers and a brother-in-law were deputies, while Carlo Cafiero was always called the '[[black sheep]]' of the family. In 1864 he went to [[Naples]], where he got a [[Degree (school)|degree]] in law. He then went to [[Florence]] and at the beginning of 1870 he was in [[Paris]]. The Paris he went to [[London]], where he matured, renouncing his [[diplomatic career]], his [[wealth]] and family, to join the [[revolution]] and [[socialism]]. In London Cafiero made contacts with [[Marx]] and [[Engels]]. He joined the [[International Workingmen's Association]] and was charged to go back to Italy and conquer it to Marx’s ideology, where instead there was the strong influence of the [[Anarchism]] of [[Mikhail Bakunin]] and the [[Republicanism]] of [[Giuseppe Mazzini]]. He restored the ancient section of 'L'Internazionale' in Naples, with the help of the young [[Errico Malatesta]]. There, during an assembly, he was imprisoned for the first time. === Cafiero became an anarchist === After over a year spent in Italy as a [[representative]] of Marx and Engels Cafiero felt the [[influence]] of anarchism. And thanks to the friendship with [[Giuseppe Fanelli]], he passed on to the other side of the barricade, with Bakunin and his Italian followers. In early 1872 came