The Red Sect | Enzo Martucci | SA1257

The Red Sect is Enzo Martucci’s most ferocious polemic—a scathing indictment of Marxist dogma from within the radical tradition itself. First published in Italy in 1953, it blends memoir, philosophy, and political critique into a relentless attack on the soul-crushing fanaticism of the communist faithful. Drawing from years of exile, imprisonment, and conflict with both fascists and Bolsheviks, Martucci exposes the new priesthood of revolutionaries—armed not with rosaries, but with party directives and pistols. This memoir vividly recounts the trials of a man unyielding in his battle against collective illusions. Martucci, imprisoned by fascists and hunted by communists, personifies the Stirnerian ideal of the singular individual—one who rejects every authority imposed by church, state, or ideology. The Red Sect represents the culmination of a lifetime dedicated to illegalist anarchism, and this edition marks its first appearance in English translation. A fierce individualist inspired