What is Domenico Losurdo?
[[File:Losurdo.png|thumb|200px|Losurdo in 2011]] '''Domenico Losurdo''' (14 November 1941<ref>{{cite web|url=https://prabook.com/web/mobile/#!profile/269480|title=Prabook|website=prabook.com}}</ref> &ndash; 28 June 2018) was an Italian [[Marxist]] [[Philosophy|philosopher]] and [[historian]]. He was born in [[Sannicandro di Bari]], [[Italy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scienzeformaz.urbino.com/Prodotti/SchedaProdotto.asp?PathID=329.402&IDDB=1&Lan=IT|title=Losurdo Domenico|publisher=Università degli studi di Urbino « Carlo Bo »|language=it|access-date=22 January 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717173427/http://www.scienzeformaz.urbino.com/Prodotti/SchedaProdotto.asp?PathID=329.402&IDDB=1&Lan=IT|archive-date=17 July 2011}}</ref> He was Dean of the Faculty of Education at the [[University of Urbino]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uniurb.it/it/portale/index.php?mist_id=12000&lang=ENG&tipo=ENG&page=1070|title=Faculties: Faculty of Education|publisher=University of Urbino|access-date=22 January 2011|archive-date=22 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722212506/http://www.uniurb.it/it/portale/index.php?mist_id=12000&lang=ENG&tipo=ENG&page=1070|url-status=dead}}</ref> Losurdo wrote ''[[Liberalism: A Counter-History]]''. He was critical of [[racism]], [[slavery]], and [[genocide]]. Losurdo died on 28 June 2018 in [[Rome]] from [[esophageal cancer]] at the age of 76.<ref>[https://www.ilpartitocomunistaitaliano.it/2018/06/28/pci-ancona-cordoglio-per-la-scomparsa-del-compagno-losurdo/ PCI Ancona: cordoglio per la scomparsa del Compagno Losurdo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702185512/https://www.ilpartitocomunistaitaliano.it/2018/06/28/pci-ancona-cordoglio-per-la-scomparsa-del-compagno-losurdo/ |date=2020-07-02 }} {{in lang|it}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{cite web|url=http://www.kominform.at/article.php?story=20070530163545732|title=Domenico Losurdo: Demokratie dank Sozialismus|date=30 May 2007|publisher=KomInform|lan