Domenico Losurdo (14 November 1941[1] – 28 June 2018) was an Italian Marxist philosopher and historian. He was born in Sannicandro di Bari, Italy.[2] He was Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Urbino.[3] 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.[4]