In 1908, Luce Fabbri was born in
Rome, the daughter of
Italian anarchist Luigi Fabbri. Herself also an anarchist from an early age, she wrote articles for
Errico Malatesta's magazine . She studied
literature at the
University of Bologna, writing her dissertation on the work of
French anarchist and geographer
Élisée Reclus. In 1929, she fled
Fascist Italy and reunited with her parents in
Paris, where they had been living in
exile. She went with them as they moved to
Belgium and then on to
Uruguay, finally settling in
Montevideo. In 1933, Fabbri witnessed President
Gabriel Terra's
self-coup and the establishment of a
dictatorship. She reported that Uruguay rapidly changed from a free country, to one where people lived under "the harassment of continuous
surveillance". In the Uruguayan capital, Fabbri published numerous journals of her own, including:
Studi Sociali, edited by her father until his death in 1946;
El Risurgimiento, which she edited during the
Spanish Civil War; and
Socialismo y Libertad, which she edited during
World War II. In her writing, Fabbri developed an anarchist theory of revolution for the
contemporary period; drawing from the work of
Hannah Arendt and
Albert Camus, she re-conceived revolution as a "flexible, contingent, and non-violent process", distinguishing it from the earlier anarchist theories of
revolutionary spontaneity. She was also employed as a history and literature teacher, educating students at the
University of the Republic from 1949 onwards. Luce Fabbri died in Montevideo, in 2000. == See also ==