Umberto Melotti
Biographic Data
| ID | 96929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Umberto Melotti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Umberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Melotti |
| SIGNATURE | MELOTTI U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pavia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
I Promessi Sposi di Alessandro Manzoni: Un libro bellissimo e attualissimo
The 150th anniversary of Alessandro Manzoni’s death was celebrated beyond all expectations. The President of the Republic himself wished to commemorate it with a statement emphasising the beauty and relevance of The Betrothed, a novel that should be read in adulthood, when one can most appreciate its great richness. There is, however, one difficulty: his writing suffers the effects of time. More than 200 years have passed since it was first writt…
Marx passato, presente, futuro: Una Visione Alternativa Dello Sviluppo Storico
Ricordo di Luciano Pellicani: Un grande amico, un grande studioso, un grande sociologo
.
Immigrazione e sicurezza: Osservazioni critiche su una questione troppo controversa
Immigration and security have been paired as an object of discussion far too much. Though international experience teaches us that migrating processes lead to effects of higher and deeper insecurity, Italy has until now witnessed - both among scientists and among politicians - a tendency to deny the relationship between these two phenomena. However data clamorously contradicts this assumption. According to the most recent data available, more tha…
Migration Policies and Political Cultures in Europe: A Changing Trend
This paper discusses the relationships between the migratory policies of the EU countries with more experience of immigration and their national political cultures. It focuses on France, Germany and the United Kingdom. It then looks at Italy, a relatively new country of immigration, which, with 3,000,000 legal immigrants, has become the fourth country of immigration in Europe and the first in the Mediterranean basin. In its final part it highligh…
War and peace in primitive human societies: A sociobiological view
Biology and Bureaucracy: Public Administration and Public Policy from the Perspective of Evolutionary, Genetic, and Neurobiological Theory
A sociobiological interpretation of the structures and functions of the human family
Polygyny and Inheritance of Wealth [and Comments and Replies]
Cross-cultural data are used to test the hypotheses that (1) polygyny in humans is resource polygyny and (2) parents transfer wealth to male heirs when wealth increases the heirs' chance of obtaining multiple mates. A reinterpretation of Freud's Oedipus complex follows as an adjunct
On the Origin of the Family
On Altruism and the Family
Towards a New Theory of the Origin of the Family [and Comments and Reply]
The emergence of the monogamous family in human societies is not satisfactorily explained by traditional theories of its "natural" character or economic origins. This paper proposes a new theory based on sociobiological studies of altruism, a behaviour well-known in man and nonhuman primates. The starting point is the evolution of altruism, a behaviour which increases the chance of survival of the recipient at some cost to the performer. Altruism…
Socialism and Bureaucratic Collectivism in Developing Countries
Bureaucratic collectivism can be defined as a modern class society based on specific relations of production that set workers and bureaucrats at opposite sides. Characterized by an enlarged production (similar to capitalism's) bureaucratic collectivism is clearly different from all precapitalist societies of simple reproduction (ancient, Asiatic or feudal) as well as from traditional capitalist society, which sets the proletariat against the bour…
Marx and the Third World
Journal Article Melotti (Umberto). Marx and the Third World Get access Marx and the Third World. By UMBERTO MELOTTI. Translated by Pat Ransford. Edited by Malcolm Caldwell. (London: Macmillan Press, 1977. Pp. x + 222. £8.95 hardback, £3.95 paperback.) George Catephores George Catephores University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 88, Issue 350, 1 June 1978, Pages …
Marx and the Third World
Typologies of Asiatic Societies
Significant differences can be detected among societies founded on the Asiatic mode of production. Various authors have constructed typologies in an attempt to account for them.KeywordsHydraulic FeatureTang DynastyAsiatic SocietyNile BasinTemple StateThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
The Historical Function of Colonialism
Thus Marx was led to conclude that there was no potential for autonomous development within societies based on the Asiatic mode of production. Just as classical society lacked 'creative capacity' and had to await the external impetus of 'barbaric vitality', so Asiatic society was to receive the requisite stimulus from European colonialism.KeywordsAsiatic SocietyHistorical FunctionEast India CompanyGood SideEconomic CategoryThese keywords were add…
The Long Stagnation of Societies Based on the Asiatic Mode of Production
It should now be easier to see the reasons for the age-long stagnation of societies based on the Asiatic mode of production. Private land ownership, if it exists at all, is very limited. Glass distinctions exist on purely spurious lines, and are sometimes distorted further by the caste system, whose outstanding feature is a tendency to create accepted inequalities. The form of exploitation is less rigid, owing to the absence of private slavery or…
The Basic Features of Asiatic Society
From the foregoing sources Marx abstracts the components of a 'general category' of society based on a particular mode of production that to him constituted, as we have seen, one of those 'epochs marking the progress of the economic development of society'.1
Cultural Traits Peculiar to Asiatic Society
Purely cultural differences are also quite sharp. The Asiatic mode of production is truly 'the keystone of the Oriental heaven'.KeywordsAsiatic SocietyCultural TraitSole OwnerUniversal TendencyAsiatic TraditionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
The Origins of Asiatic Society
Of all the forms of commune that developed out of the primitive commune, 'the Asiatic form necessarily hangs on most tenaciously and for the longest time. This is due to its presupposition that the individual does not become independent vis-à-vis the commune; that there is a self-sustaining circle of production, unity of agriculture, manufactures, etc.'1
Marx and the Third World
In Memory of Bruno Rizzi
January 13, Bruno Rizzi died in Bussolengo, Italy, at the age of 75. Except for a brief note by Giorgio Galli in Mondoperaio, his death has gone unnoticed. Rizzi, as Galli noted, was an author ignored and “cursed.” His work on the USSR (La Bureaucratisation du monde [Paris, 1939]), was discussed worldwide within the left opposition from the early 1940s on, but direct knowledge of his contribution has remained limited to a restricted circle of sch…
La rivoluzione cubana
Rivoluzione e Societa
Towards a New Theory of the Origin of the Family [and Comments and Reply]
The emergence of the monogamous family in human societies is not satisfactorily explained by traditional theories of its "natural" character or economic origins. This paper proposes a new theory based on sociobiological studies of altruism, a behaviour well-known in man and nonhuman primates. The starting point is the evolution of altruism, a behaviour which increases the chance of survival of the recipient at some cost to the performer. Altruism…
Socialism and Bureaucratic Collectivism in Developing Countries
Bureaucratic collectivism can be defined as a modern class society based on specific relations of production that set workers and bureaucrats at opposite sides. Characterized by an enlarged production (similar to capitalism's) bureaucratic collectivism is clearly different from all precapitalist societies of simple reproduction (ancient, Asiatic or feudal) as well as from traditional capitalist society, which sets the proletariat against the bour…
Marx and the Third World
Lo Sciopero nel Suo Contesto Sociale
Rivoluzione e Societa
La rivoluzione cubana
Typologies of Asiatic Societies
Significant differences can be detected among societies founded on the Asiatic mode of production. Various authors have constructed typologies in an attempt to account for them.KeywordsHydraulic FeatureTang DynastyAsiatic SocietyNile BasinTemple StateThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
The Historical Function of Colonialism
Thus Marx was led to conclude that there was no potential for autonomous development within societies based on the Asiatic mode of production. Just as classical society lacked 'creative capacity' and had to await the external impetus of 'barbaric vitality', so Asiatic society was to receive the requisite stimulus from European colonialism.KeywordsAsiatic SocietyHistorical FunctionEast India CompanyGood SideEconomic CategoryThese keywords were add…
The Long Stagnation of Societies Based on the Asiatic Mode of Production
It should now be easier to see the reasons for the age-long stagnation of societies based on the Asiatic mode of production. Private land ownership, if it exists at all, is very limited. Glass distinctions exist on purely spurious lines, and are sometimes distorted further by the caste system, whose outstanding feature is a tendency to create accepted inequalities. The form of exploitation is less rigid, owing to the absence of private slavery or…
The Basic Features of Asiatic Society
From the foregoing sources Marx abstracts the components of a 'general category' of society based on a particular mode of production that to him constituted, as we have seen, one of those 'epochs marking the progress of the economic development of society'.1
Cultural Traits Peculiar to Asiatic Society
Purely cultural differences are also quite sharp. The Asiatic mode of production is truly 'the keystone of the Oriental heaven'.KeywordsAsiatic SocietyCultural TraitSole OwnerUniversal TendencyAsiatic TraditionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
The Origins of Asiatic Society
Of all the forms of commune that developed out of the primitive commune, 'the Asiatic form necessarily hangs on most tenaciously and for the longest time. This is due to its presupposition that the individual does not become independent vis-à-vis the commune; that there is a self-sustaining circle of production, unity of agriculture, manufactures, etc.'1
Marx and the Third World
In Memory of Bruno Rizzi
January 13, Bruno Rizzi died in Bussolengo, Italy, at the age of 75. Except for a brief note by Giorgio Galli in Mondoperaio, his death has gone unnoticed. Rizzi, as Galli noted, was an author ignored and “cursed.” His work on the USSR (La Bureaucratisation du monde [Paris, 1939]), was discussed worldwide within the left opposition from the early 1940s on, but direct knowledge of his contribution has remained limited to a restricted circle of sch…
Marx and the Third World
Journal Article Melotti (Umberto). Marx and the Third World Get access Marx and the Third World. By UMBERTO MELOTTI. Translated by Pat Ransford. Edited by Malcolm Caldwell. (London: Macmillan Press, 1977. Pp. x + 222. £8.95 hardback, £3.95 paperback.) George Catephores George Catephores University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 88, Issue 350, 1 June 1978, Pages …
Marx and the Third World
Socialism and Bureaucratic Collectivism in Developing Countries
Bureaucratic collectivism can be defined as a modern class society based on specific relations of production that set workers and bureaucrats at opposite sides. Characterized by an enlarged production (similar to capitalism's) bureaucratic collectivism is clearly different from all precapitalist societies of simple reproduction (ancient, Asiatic or feudal) as well as from traditional capitalist society, which sets the proletariat against the bour…
Towards a New Theory of the Origin of the Family [and Comments and Reply]
The emergence of the monogamous family in human societies is not satisfactorily explained by traditional theories of its "natural" character or economic origins. This paper proposes a new theory based on sociobiological studies of altruism, a behaviour well-known in man and nonhuman primates. The starting point is the evolution of altruism, a behaviour which increases the chance of survival of the recipient at some cost to the performer. Altruism…
Polygyny and Inheritance of Wealth [and Comments and Replies]
Cross-cultural data are used to test the hypotheses that (1) polygyny in humans is resource polygyny and (2) parents transfer wealth to male heirs when wealth increases the heirs' chance of obtaining multiple mates. A reinterpretation of Freud's Oedipus complex follows as an adjunct
On the Origin of the Family
On Altruism and the Family
A sociobiological interpretation of the structures and functions of the human family
Biology and Bureaucracy: Public Administration and Public Policy from the Perspective of Evolutionary, Genetic, and Neurobiological Theory
War and peace in primitive human societies: A sociobiological view
Migration Policies and Political Cultures in Europe: A Changing Trend
This paper discusses the relationships between the migratory policies of the EU countries with more experience of immigration and their national political cultures. It focuses on France, Germany and the United Kingdom. It then looks at Italy, a relatively new country of immigration, which, with 3,000,000 legal immigrants, has become the fourth country of immigration in Europe and the first in the Mediterranean basin. In its final part it highligh…
Immigrazione e sicurezza: Osservazioni critiche su una questione troppo controversa
Immigration and security have been paired as an object of discussion far too much. Though international experience teaches us that migrating processes lead to effects of higher and deeper insecurity, Italy has until now witnessed - both among scientists and among politicians - a tendency to deny the relationship between these two phenomena. However data clamorously contradicts this assumption. According to the most recent data available, more tha…
Ricordo di Luciano Pellicani: Un grande amico, un grande studioso, un grande sociologo
.
Marx passato, presente, futuro: Una Visione Alternativa Dello Sviluppo Storico
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · History (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Art (5 works)