...Subsumed under the General Concept of Art. It was the study of socialism, Croce confessed later, that "stirred my whole being and for the first time awakened in me a feeling of political enthusiasm," although he also denied he had ever been an orthodox Marxist. In his 1917 preface to the third edition...

...University of Rome; under his guidance Croce had plunged into the labyrinths of Marx's Kapital. "This intercourse with the literature of Marxism, and the...observe in himself the mysterious process of the new passion."26 But the wine of social reform did not quite go to his head; he soon reconciled himself...