Alberto Toscano (born 1 January 1977) is an Italian cultural critic, social theorist, philosopher, and translator.

He studied philosophy at the Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research, where he received his BA Liberal Arts in 1997.

His current research is divided into three main strands:[1] His work has been described both as an investigation of the persistence of the idea of communism in contemporary thought and a genealogical inquiry into the concept of fanaticism.

In an article on the Tarnac 9 case, written for The Guardian in December 2009,[3] Toscano argues that society is losing its ability to distinguish between vandalism and terrorism.

A reader in sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, Toscano is a member of the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory.