Andrea Costa, founder of the Italian Socialist Party electoral Salvatore Lo Leggio
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14.8.10
For the centenary of Andrew Costa (Imola 1851 to 1910). Interview with Charles De Maria.
The centenary of the death of Andrea Costa, the Italian anarchist who founded socialism, has gone virtually unnoticed: a few articles in newspapers, a conference and an exhibition in his Imola, not reflected upon. This little blog is already a couple of posts that use the centennial to commemorate some of the most significant passages of great ethical and political experience (http://salvatoreloleggio.blogspot.com/2010/01/per- centenary-of-the-coast-andrea-imola.html - Http://salvatoreloleggio.blogspot.com/2010/02/per-il-centenario-di-andrea-costa-imola.html). Today I would add a nice interview at the historic Charles De Maria, which I found in the archive of magazine worthy "A City", derived from number 175 in June 2010 and designed by Franco Melandri and Gianni Saporetti. (SLL)
De Carlo Maria conducts research at the Department of History, University of Bologna. It deals with the history of socialism, popular associations of local governments. He has worked on paper and on the biography of Camillo Berneri and Giovanna, and Alessandro Schiavi Andrea Costa. Recently he edited Andrea Costa and the Government the city. The administrative experience of Imola and municipalism popular. 1881-1914, (exhibition catalog organized to mark the centenary of the death of Andrea Costa), Diabasis, 2010.
Andrea Costa was instrumental in the history of Italian socialism, and the same story in Italy, but is now a virtually forgotten figure, almost considered a second floor ...
It 's true that today we speak little of Andrea Costa and, more generally, are the traditions of socialism (this term in its broadest sense, from anarchism to socialism reform) that seem to be given more attention in public debate, in the cultural life of the country. The Costa recalls the figure of the political events that now seem distant and biography, but in reality they are not disconnected from our time and are still able to talk. I am convinced that, in some respects, Costa turns out to be our contemporary.
Can you talk about his life?
Costa was born in 1851 and belongs to the young generation born too late to participate in the struggles of the Risorgimento. The first recruits, like him, of social anarchism were, somehow, missed the partisans. In many cases it was very close to their ideal relationship with Garibaldi. For example, the link between Costa and Garibaldi is an intense bond: it preserves a letter of 1872 in Costa Garibaldi, who then, in 1907, participated in the pilgrimage to Caprera, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the 'hero of two worlds. "The relationship and exchange between the first and Garibaldi Italian socialism can be attributed to several reasons, notably the fact that the patriotism of Garibaldi He had never closed a national perspective, but instead was married to a battle for freedom and social justice wider: properly internationalist.
This is just one example of how, through the path of the young Costa, you can pick socialism in its nascent state and follow the formation of the socialist movement in our country. Precisely because of his personal history, Costa had the ability to represent socialism in the broadest sense of the term (in a moral sense, in fact), over currents and parties. A story is the emergence of the deep Italian and European left, the many strands of thought and social action that the 800 animated and in the decades around the turn of 1900, making it a plural universe. The vitality of that first socialism and his wealth consisted in the diversity of schools (as has so often pointed Pino Ferraris).
Since the last decades 800, Costa is a point of reference for the popular associations throughout Italy, from Sicily to the northern regions. Also this way passes the consolidation of the recent national unity. It has often insisted on an estrangement from the institutions of the socialist world of the liberal state, but in fact the precious heritage of solidarity and civic education sedimentatosi thanks to the work of trade unions, cooperatives and municipalities contributed to the consolidation of the young red-national community. I am referring to the many issues associated personnel, the meeting between the spirit of association and economic initiative, to the many forms of so-called "social economy" or "popular economy" by mutual aid, cooperation, the rural banks (phenomena affects not only the secular and socialist side, but also Catholic). There is an image of the returned civil society as a place of solidarity was central to the relationship between autonomy and solidarity. How
wrote Nadia Urbinati (just about "a city"), to join a shared purpose and individually chosen is the essence of democracy. The problem is that, during the '900, and in society more and more rigidly structured, it is often lost when the link between the association and organization: the latter has prevailed, suppressing the first irreparably. From the party-association has gone to the party-organization. Tapping into the origins of socialism (and I mean In particular, the social anarchy) means also reduce the polarization between individualism and collectivism. A contradiction between two abstractions - as I explained Pino Ferraris - which was strongly driven by the challenge in the twentieth century between communism and capitalism, and that ended, however, to forget how vital experience there can be no society without individuals, as well as there are no individuals without society.
I do not want to pass the oversimplified idea of \u200b\u200bthe twentieth century as a period of closure, compared with fertile ideas developed in the previous century. Not true, but certainly if we question the decentralized model of socialism at the end of '800 and early '900, a municipal reform by many centers widespread in society, we can not forget that, historically, its crisis is marked at the European level, since the advent of Fascism, the growth of the state apparatus, also left by the emergence of a technocratic and centralized idea (often authoritarian) in the management of politics and economics. Of course, in all this, he played a key role in the economic crisis of 1929-31, which was thought to address the need to increase state intervention in society. It is the process that led to refer to the philosophical categories of Aldo Capitini, "absolute state" (which is stated precisely in the '20s and '30s ’900), al quale si è poi aggiunto, nel secondo dopoguerra, "l’assoluto del benessere”: il consumismo e la frenesia dei consumi (come ricorda spesso Goffredo Fofi). Sono questi assoluti che hanno cancellato l’esperienza del primo socialismo italiano ed europeo, del socialismo decentrato e libertario che attraversa praticamente tutta la vita e l’azione di Costa.
Tuttavia, dicevi che Costa ha ancora un interesse per l’oggi...
Bisogna ricominciare a pensare in termini di un nuovo inizio, credo proprio di sì, ma senza radici e senza tradizioni politiche che costituiscano una ispirazione e un punto di riferimento ideale ho l’impressione che non si vada da nessuna parte. Con reference to current: it is vain to repeat to be "reformers", then if the term turns out to be empty, unable to engage in a tradition of political culture, history, or perhaps I should tell more stories. To speak to Andrea Costa, however, should start with some historical references. So, first things first.
In 1864, in London, founded the International Workers Association, the First International, and one of the founders, along with Marx and Engels, there are Mazzini, there are anarchists Proudhon and mutualist of other currents of the European left.
Under the Statute of the International this plurality has a character quite vague and the only fixed point clearly regards the mutual support and communication between the workers' associations in Europe, all in view of the emancipation of workers and the general reform of society, in turn, placed in the general perspective of a "new humanity". At the same
1864, Mikhail Bakunin - Russian noble past and democratic activity antizarista - arrives in Italy following the eco business Garibaldi, an echo even arrived in Siberia, where Bakunin had escaped after several years of imprisonment. First Bakunin moved to Florence, then went to Naples and that is where they begin to birth the "brotherhood", ie sections of the "International Alliance of socialist democracy ", the organization that Bakunin is building and will soon be merged into First International. The Russian revolutionary is followed especially among the elements of the Republican Left, which in fact are Alberto Mario, Florence, and Saverio Friscia, Charles Gambuzzi, Giuseppe Fanelli (which will be the initiator of the anarchist movement in Spain) in Naples.
The "Brotherhood" Bakunin are, in fact, the first cells of socialism in Italy, but only at the beginning of the 70 states the first real generation of Italian anarchists. A memorable generation, born around 1850: among them, Carlo Cafiero, who was born in 1846 in Apulia ma da una famiglia originaria di Meta di Sorrento, il campano Errico Malatesta (1853) e il romagnolo Andrea Costa (1851). Nel giugno 1872, a Rimini, si tiene il congresso della Federazione italiana dell’Internazionale, ed è proprio qui che viene fissato l’indirizzo libertario del primo socialismo italiano, influenzato da Bakunin e dai suoi seguaci: Costa, Cafiero e Malatesta. Nello stesso 1872, però, si arriva anche a una serie di scontri interni all’Associazione internazionale dei lavoratori che porterà alla sua spaccatura. Dapprima, il Consiglio generale dell’Internazionale, guidato da Marx, espelle Bakunin con l’accusa di manovre scissionistiche, per tutta risposta a Saint-Imier, in Svizzera, nasce the international anarchist movement, that includes those federations Italian, French, Belgian, English and Russian.
The Italian Social Movement, at its birth, then an address libertarian, anarchist, and a strong insurgency and is also under this setting that as early as 1874, begins the season of attempts insurgency, that of "propaganda by the fact" . The first of these attempts at Bologna - Costa is one of the organizers and Bakunin also take part, although it is already old - but it aborts because the police dismantle the organization before the start of the motion. Bakunin managed to escape, while Costa was imprisoned and will do two years in prison before being acquitted in the trial of '76. Is acquitted because that year definitely change the Italian political framework that, with the first government Depretis liberal left sees the right to take over from history, who had ruled before. It must be remembered that at that trial testified in defense of Costa, also Carducci, of which Costa followed the lessons and who had won the esteem. Costa attended the University in Bologna, where he met Giovanni Pascoli well, but, not having the money to actual enrollment, followed by the University hearing officer, that he never graduated. He had a great culture, however, was a polyglot and an orator of extraordinary talent. He was of slender build (Aging and growing), it was not very tall and wore round glasses, to be shortsighted. He looked like a choirboy, but he had extraordinary eloquence and there are many testimonies that highlight how his speeches were able to carry out important concepts besides, a lot of exciting his listeners.
Returning to the attempts of insurrectionary anarchists ...
The second is attempted insurrection in 1877, when a group led by Cafiero, Malatesta and Pietro Ceccarelli, a Romagna, tries to give rise to the countries of the Matese mountains, near Benevento. After a few days, however, this small group is surrounded by the royal troops, imprisoned and forced to surrender (and it is in custody that Cafiero wrote the famous Compendium of Marx's Capital). The new bankruptcy crisis marks the definitive method of insurgency, already initiated in '74.
Meanwhile, in Milan, had started dating the second series of "The people", a magazine run by Osvaldo Gnocchi Viani important and Enrico Bignami. "The people" is a crossroads of all the Italian and European socialist schools and the place from which they arrive in Italy so many influences from Europe, from the movements in France, Belgium, Germany. There is therefore no coincidence that Costa in July 1879 while in prison France, published just in it the famous Letter to My Friends Romagna, which predicts the turning point, political and theoretical, which leads him from social anarchy and insurrection, a gradualist and reformist socialism. This turn of Costa has long been seen only in relative terms the ideological diatribe, but I believe that in order to really understand it, should broaden their vision to the institutional and political changes taking place in that period in Italy and Europe.
insurgency strategy of anarchism, in fact, could be understood and consistently be placed in a situation where, for example, voted 1% of the population of elite government was completely closed to prospects a democratic enlargement. The situation, however, begins to change in 1876, when in fact the historical left into power and begins to talk of compulsory primary education, the enlargement of suffrage, the reduction of police action against subversives.
In Europe things are moving. The Belgian socialist movement, which was one of the strongest components of the International anarchist in the late '70s, while still setting libertarian, passes in the field of socialism gradually, the French Democratic Labour Party in the early 80's , is in favor of participation in elections and gives an administrative program. In those years, Costa toured Europe and understands the importance of the conquest of certain fundamental freedoms. The turning point of Costa, however, is not really a change from anarchism to social democracy, but it is a transition from a socialist perspective anarchist insurrection still very close to the idea of \u200b\u200blibertarian revolution, but gradually opens to the needs of gradualism and parliamentary struggle.
In 1880, Costa is back in Italy (these were the years of political and romantic partnership with Anna Kuliscioff) and based at Rimini-coincidentally-the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Romagna, which I think is the most amazing party ever existed in Italy. This not only because it represents a first bend in the history of the Italian socialist movement, but mainly because it was an open party, libertarian, semi-anarchic, with a great vocation to internationalism and at the same time, with an established regional Romagna, Emilia, in the north of the Marche.
programmatic characteristics of the party have their heart in the idea of \u200b\u200bassociation, that the idea to apply to all personnel associated with the demands of life. This idea derives an approach focusing on common federal policy, which we intend to win thanks to the third major element of its program, that the alliance with the Democrats and radicals. From this comes the federal and eclectic view of the political party that Mr. Costa, a view which is confirmed also by the concern with which he welcomed the birth of the Italian Socialist Party in 1892. Under the impulse of Filippo Turati, the PSI was born, in fact, with his doctrine, that it was Marxism, and its apparent homogeneity, breaking the one hand with the anarchists and the other with radical democracy.
In contrast, Costa wanted to avoid holes that would weaken the movement of popular empowerment. The socialist family, although contentious, had to remain united, because the drive-in the words of the socialist leader-Imola "It is not only in uniformity." Costa was thinking of a federal vision of the left, a major party capable of taking account of regional diversity and strength of each of socialism. The parliamentary component could operate within the institutions, while the libertarian base would ensure a constant contact with the "social question". Ultimately, it was precisely in the diversity and pluralism that Costa saw a guarantee of consistency and effectiveness for the Italian socialism. Without
improper to attempt comparisons with current events, I think, however, be noted that the agenda is the theme of the party-federal form. Themes attention del dibattito pubblico sono il radicamento sul territorio, la volontà di combattere la verticalizzazione e la concentrazione del potere politico, le tendenze populiste, anche se non vanno sottovalutati i rischi legati al potere personale dei leader locali (capi e capetti). Ma quello che mi sta più a cuore sottolineare, di fronte alle miserie culturali che vive oggi l’Italia, è la lezione di laicità che Costa riesce ancora a impartire. L’essere laico significa coltivare l’apertura al dialogo. La strada difficile del dialogo rappresenta, insomma, la cifra del vero laico.
La pluralità delle impostazioni socialiste per lui aveva una funzione critica, che avrebbe permesso al movimento di correggersi dall’interno...
Costa era presente a Genova, nel 1892, quando venne fondato il Partito socialista, ma la situazione del congresso, molto caotica, lo lasciò male, soprattutto a causa degli scontri tra socialisti e anarchici: un dialogo troncato. Per questo non aderì al nuovo partito e tornò a Imola profondamente deluso, anche se poi, nel ’93, i socialisti romagnoli aderiranno al Partito socialista italiano proprio su invito di Costa.
Nel partito che aveva in mente la forma federale avrebbe permesso che, all’interno di esso, trovassero cittadinanza tutte le correnti del socialismo e tutte le declinazioni regionali del movimento di emancipazione. Era ben consapevole dell’infinita varietà territoriale e culturale the peninsula.
had confidence in political and social organization focused on local self-government? Yes
Beyond the fact that in the early '90s you could actually make a federal party with the anarchists and reason, what is interesting is the complexity of Costa, who wanted to bring out the problems, not least because, many times, visions and contradictory issues are more interesting than monolithic. Carlo Rosselli, in 1932, in exile in Paris, devotes an essay to beautiful Filippo Turati, who died that year. Rosselli Turati well knew, he was very fond of, but in this essay criticizes the right on alla svolta del 1892.
Rosselli non cita Costa - può darsi che non fosse neanche a conoscenza delle perplessità di Costa sull’operato di Turati - e scrive che Turati aveva ragioni da vendere quando dichiarava incompatibile il socialismo con la concezione dell’anarchismo individualista, o dell’anarchismo inteso in senso volgare, ma, dall’altra parte, sempre secondo Rosselli, Turati aveva sottovalutato l’apporto di una corrente dell’anarchismo, la comunista-anarchica (quella di Malatesta), che col socialismo non era in antitesi necessaria e anzi, almeno in pratica, poteva servire a correggerne l’eccessiva e pericolosa fiducia accordata all’azione dello Stato.
"La best proof of what we say - still Rosselli - lies in the fact that the Socialists are now much closer to anarchists like Malatesta or Fabbri, not the old revolutionary comrades in the communist dictatorial past. " As you can see, thirty years later returned the same issues, and returned in a Europe that had changed ...
The vision of the party opposed da Costa, one that is reflected in the state, which is a state within a state, is the vision of German Social Democracy, but in Belgium, for example, the Socialist Party was very different ...
As I mentioned earlier, the Belgian socialist movement and its leader, Cesar De Paepe, were fundamental per la riflessione di Costa. Nel 1877, a Gand, si tenne un Congresso universale socialista, promosso dai socialisti fiamminghi di De Paepe e fu lì che le potenti organizzazioni socialiste belghe, che fino ad allora erano state nell’Internazionale libertaria, passarono in un’ottica di socialismo gradualista. A quel congresso era presente anche Costa, allora ancora su posizioni anarchiche insurrezionaliste, ma quel congresso, e le posizioni di De Paepe, lo colpirono tanto che, nella lettera Agli amici di Romagna, cita proprio il congresso di Gand come esempio. In quel congresso, De Paepe sviluppò l’idea di una sinistra federale, cioè di una sinistra aperta alle riforme e alla lotta gradualista all’interno delle istituzioni, but that it maintained a sense of transformation in libertarian perspective.
Let's step back: the letter to friends of Romagna provoked a fierce debate, particularly with the anarchists, but also put out that they were not few those who, like the group that was headed to the newspaper "The claim" in Forlì were available from studies in policy while remaining clearly anarchists ...
of this debate is indicative of the attitude Cafiero, who in '79, the turning point, Costa harsh attacks, but then, in a famous letter of 1882, will give reason. This means that, first of the three main exponents of Italian anarchism, Costa, Malatesta and Cafiero in the early '80s two agree to accept a form of struggle within the institutions and it is only Malatesta to stay otherwise. This divergence is an indication that the political environment, which in the 70s had led to choose the insurgency, in the 80s was profoundly changing, starting with the fact that in 1882 there is the reform of political suffrage, which not only leads the electorate to 6.9%, but above all change the method by which you select the same electorate. The reform of 82, in fact, states that, in combination census-capacity (the couple who decided that 800 and who voted no), the element of capacity becomes increasingly important at the expense of wealth, so much so that you can vote down all those who made the second grade, regardless of the money they earn. The commitment of the then-popular socialist education night school, libraries and adult education-must also be seen in this sense, it also means educating the people earning potential of new voters.
In 1882, Costa enters Parliament, winning elections in the college of Ravenna and becoming the first Italian socialist deputy. In the socialist movement of the time, and not only among the anarchists, the distrust of the parliament era molto diffusa e quando Costa si era presentato alle elezioni aveva lasciato intendere che non avrebbe mai prestato giuramento alla monarchia e che quindi, se avesse vinto, per forza di cose avrebbe dovuto rinunciare alla carica. Quando però vinse, nacque un grosso dibattito, nel quale intervenne anche Cafiero che, nella famosa lettera cui ho già accennato, sostenne che Costa doveva entrare in Parlamento per portare lì la voce dei lavoratori. Costa quindi divenne deputato, prestò giuramento di fedeltà alla monarchia (nel 1909 divenne anche presidente della Camera) e fu questo che, alla fin fine, gli anarchici non accettarono.
Va comunque tenuto presente che, all’epoca, i deputati non avevano un’indennità, quindi la scelta di Costa di entrare in Parlamento fu assolutamente una scelta propriamente politica, non certo per il desiderio di benefici personali. In effetti, poi, gli interventi di Costa alla Camera dei deputati furono veramente gli interventi del portavoce del movimento di emancipazione, non si staccò mai dalla questione sociale, gli rimasero sempre ben presenti i problemi delle classi popolari.
Tra il 1888 e il 1889 l’allargamento del suffragio viene portato anche nel voto amministrativo ed è proprio questo cambiamento a fare sì che, nelle amministrative dell’89, i socialisti di Costa, alleati ai repubblicani e ai democratici, riescano a vincere le elezioni amministrative a Imola, che così diventa il primo comune Italian Socialist-led. It was a momentous fact, not least because, today, Imola may seem a peripheral center, but back then it was not for nothing, had over 30,000 inhabitants and was one of the hubs, as Reggio Emilia, the emancipation movement popular in Italy, So 'is that there was held the National Congress of the Italian Socialist Party in 1902, as if they had to keep one in 1894, which was prohibited by Crispi.
Can you talk about Costa administrative experience?
aftermath of the victory of '89, Costa takes two key posts: Councillor for Education and vice-president of the Congregation of Charity. With regard to the Councillor Education, Costa is given concretely be done to increase popular education scholarships (elementary school, evening, Sunday). As vice-president and then president of the Congregation of Charity, however, operating costs for changing the traditional logic of charity to the losers, moving toward a more modern security system.
The Congregation of Charity of the City was an institution that brought together the charities of the district and had a crucial importance for the working classes, because there was no welfare state and the liberal state, until the beginning of the 900, lack of interest social issue, leaving everything to charity. Innovation scope in this field by the People's Imola-then an innovation that has made it an example for many other age-government consists of a management reflects the recognition of social problems. For example, the City of Imola directly intervened to address the plight of workers forced to migrate in search of work, financed the "cookers" (ie, public canteens, cheap or even free, for the poor) and public dormitories . He began to articulate a local welfare, which also included the construction of social housing, the "workers' houses." Another question is particularly interesting is that of municipal utilities.
Since the last 800 years, not only throughout Italy but in Imola (in particular, however, in north-central part of the country), local governments began to move towards municipalization of services supplying water, gas and electricity. Initially it was a spontaneous local phenomenon, which saw leading the socialist government, then it was governed by the Act of 1903 Giolitti. The basis of this movement was the realization that the growing needs of urban centers and the popular classes could no longer be faced by a private management services, which could instead be borne by local governments allowing it is better prices for users, is a guarantee of service.
Just the law of 1903 provided local referendums in which citizens could express their support or their opposition, with those of municipal utilities. The institution of the local referendum was abolished by fascism and has not been taken up in Republican, but this was a pure loss, because it was really the expression of a healthy democracy from below. The most significant municipal referendum that was held at Imola is one of 1908, which related to the increase in municipal taxes. The City of Imola voters turned and said, roughly: "In 1906 we a municipal electric power, previously the gasworks. These and other services will cost, so we are forced to raise local taxes altogether in favor or against you? "The result was a landslide victory: 1235 voters for the" yes ", 154 for the" no "and 37 invalid votes . 90% of the people, therefore, declared themselves in favor of increasing taxes to provide better services. It 'clear that this type of referendum, for administration, are an extraordinary democratic legitimacy and in fact this policy continued and in 1912 there was the last municipalization, that of water. To all this, then, one might add il peso avuto da Costa, e dalla sua visione di un socialismo decentrato, nelle cooperative, nel mutuo soccorso, nelle casse rurali, nelle case del popolo, nelle università popolari.
Parlavi all’inizio di Costa come nostro contemporaneo...
Sono molte le riflessione sui problemi e le prospettive della nostra democrazia che ci sono suggerite da Costa. Basti pensare che il suo socialismo, il suo profilo autonomistico, sono senza dubbio da collocare all’interno della storia del pensiero federalista e dell’azione autonomistica nell’Italia unita. Come rilevava Gaetano Salvemini, il sistema federale è una scuola di auto-governo e di auto-educazione e come ricordava Norberto Bobbio l’autonomia va intesa in senso etimologico come capacità di dare norme a se stessi. Un necessario richiamo, insomma, alla questione della responsabilità e dei doveri, che si pone controcorrente rispetto all’isolamento dell’ognuno pensi per sé. (In vista del 150° dell’unità d’Italia, sono stati opportunamente ristampati I Doveri dell’Uomo di Giuseppe Mazzini). Chi si impegnava, come Costa, per la trasformazione sociale e intendeva l’utopia come una aspirazione ideale e morale al miglioramento e alla completa dedizione di sé, anteponeva i doveri ai diritti (o, per lo meno, teneva ben presente accanto ai diritti anche i doveri). L’esigenza mi sembra sia, oggi, quella di ricongiungere la questione morale the socialist tradition, a connection that has long characterized the so-called "Emilia model" and that has its roots precisely the heritage of the costs, Prampolini and Massarenti. Emilian Model I speak with reference to a culture and political education on civic virtue and organizational skills, attention to the problems of all ... but maybe at this point we return later.
Another aspect seems to draw attention now, and confidence in the value of Andrea Costa public agitation and social criticism. Costa discovers the importance of public opinion, public opinion in those years is spreading, thanks to expansion suffrage. And here comes his great ability to excite his listeners. In this regard, many cited in the memoirs of Anselmo Marabini published in 1949, and in fact is worth rereading at least one song: "The speeches I heard from Andrea Costa in my teenage years I not only enthusiasm for their eloquence and their passion, but the things he said, excitement in the struggle for a better social organization affected me and led me to examine the misery around which I was living in squalid campaign then, and slowly grew in my consciousness a deep sympathy for human emancipation that holy struggle. " It is hardly necessary to point out the connection between excitement and participation, but also between emotion and culture (the interest in a subject or a subject usually part of an emotion).
mention a reflection on the history of socialism from the nineteenth-century roots (those of Costa and others) up to the Emilian model ...
Recently, Luciano Cafagna recalled as one of the original elements of the Italian Communist Party, led by Palmiro Togliatti, was the ability to take over and own the second world war, the tradition of socialism Emilia. A "theft" (as defined by wittily Cafagna) that the PSI could never recover, nor with Nenni, nor with Craxi. This step in the history the political culture of the Left, which is eaten in the late '40s and early '50s, I think a key step. Another crucial step comes 30-40 years later with the crisis of the Left parties and their ideology (as manifested since the 80s) and the end of the same political formations of the "First Republic". Today, in general, the traditions of socialism is no longer spoken. And the reformism of the left is a meaningless word, just the absence of a convincing connection with a political history.
In the former Socialist (formerly PSI), it seems to me remains the knot Craxi: I saw the attempt to construct a genealogy policy that goes from Turati, Craxi seamlessly, via Pertini and Nenni, but it is not clear how it is standing, at least as regards the moral question. In the field ex-Communist, preferring the references to American democracy, in the person of Obama (think Veltroni, for example) or to a European social democracy appears, however, almost blurred, without articulation, without historical perspective (it Think of D'Alema and his foundation).
In the model social democrat, as was outlined in Europe since the years between the two world wars, the state's cumbersome, centralism and interventionism, e sono convinto abbia ragione Michele Salvati quando afferma che è un modello che ha esaurito la sua vitalità. Ecco allora che credo si imponga un nuovo inizio e penso che molti spunti di interesse possa fornire il primo socialismo italiano ed europeo: mi riferisco alla molteplicità delle scuole che lo caratterizzavano, al suo profilo autonomista e federalista, alla fantasia istituzionale che esprimeva.
Pubblicato da Salvatore Lo Leggio a 15:48
Etichette: Comunismo socialismo movimento operaio, Italia contemporanea, maestri e compagni, storia storie
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biografia di andrea costa
http://cronologia.leonardo.it/storia/biografie/costaand.htm
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