WE NEED AS SOON AS THE NEW LEFT PARTY OF
G. Zanetta
We need Left and Freedom, we need a credible program that touches your head feelings and the soft underbelly of our country, we need democracy, we need to open a serious discussion after the congress of the Greens and some of the position socialist comrades. We need just LEFT. We need the left with a "program" I have a 'soul alternative, to engage progressive forces, young people and the movements of our country. That points to rebalance income increasingly diverge between social classes and areas of the country. Ensuring universal services accessible and high quality. What a great move resources to the work, sustainable development, the characterization of welfare, education, culture and research. Strongly addressing the old and new problems of public morality. It should be built a relationship between the left and the political generation that has given voice to a hope of renewal that recalls what happened after 1968: The many movements.
It 's always the need to focus work on the development of a program / project that can speak to movements and social forces. Our meeting in December will open in a political situation that has dramatically changed compared to 2008. About two years back the right to the government of the country one has to wonder how a political system that will stand on the right side is increasingly becoming a subversion of the ruling party with the laws ad personam with the declared intention to change the constitution, while the central PD is struggling, are now more than six months in Congress, from our side struggling to emerge the new union of the left and the new party that many of us have asked in Naples ..
When we speak of the weakness of the country is also one of us that we need to talk. A closer look here is the answer stronger for those who - rightly - worries about the future of the left and its historical role. It is the novelty of the historical situation that one must start, as it requires us to the need (and at the same time gives us the opportunity) to take a higher responsibility to the country.
The crux is this. On the one hand it is time to state unambiguously and back-thoughts that the whole situation requires, after the election results and the "whole market" not less but more political power and therefore more, not less strong ideas and structures capable of engaging citizens in public life and return to them equal rights and the ability to organize, to decide to count that exists throughout this whole area because it is obvious that a long history of fierce divisions will not close simply by asking each other to "do only steps behind."
We ask all of us to make that big step forward is to give an answer to a "crisis of Italian politics", on whose nature and gravity is not true that we all agree.
This is the point. We are facing a historic knot. Because it is an unprecedented crisis of the left that is not measured by numbers and statistics that are difficult to read with the cultures we have, neither with the old culture "classist" but even with the reformist learned vulgate Anglo-Saxon universities.
The class struggle is, we've lost, capitalism won it.
should rather reflect on the history of Italy and wonder at what point it's detachment from national idea of \u200b\u200bthe mass intellectuality (politicians included) which should be "flexible armor" of the country and its cement.
This is the crisis that is also in our house. It covers the country's overall way of being, as evidenced by the extreme difficulty even thinking about our past and therefore the idea that Italians are uncertain of themselves and the reasons for their being together. Most have failed in the old structural basis (the centralized state, the mixed economy, the public bank, the old compromise between the North and the South, which produces and consumes savings but providing the North - the South Bank is a new attack on the savings of the people - hand of cheap labor and a large protected market, the incessant transmigration and emigration of millions of people from the south to the north of the world), and are lacking in the old bases geo-political and geo-economic. In fact, the historical conditions through which we developed after the war becoming a country "rich" and a "power" world.
The country is sitting and it is so difficult to defend what remains of our industrial apparatus. No longer understands that we place in the international division of labor (or better understand the data on unemployment), since we are stuck in a dead end: we are no longer producers of consumer goods, ie things that we provide to low cost to the old industrial and missed the bus of new technologies to bear the challenges of a new world, expanded, where the cheap goods are produced elsewhere. It beats the economic globalization, a new form of imperialism, the export of the globalization of rights and not the war. The left is called to this responsibility, not only in Italy. Clearly, with all due respect to the recipes will certainly be useful for economists, without a big political picture there is no escape from this impasse. The decline is not just an economic fact. It is impossible for an average power of betting on the future if it has no foreign policy, though - thanks to the center right - do not know if European integration is his destiny, or if Italy is in Europe as a vassal of the United States and thus tasked with sabotage.
The decline is the renunciation of young couples to have children because social services are dismantled, is the low level of human capital because the road is the spigot of tax evasion, precarious work and the art of getting by. The latest idea is one of Tremonti preparation of the next regional elections. The emergency work and occupational safety. At the end of this year are 3 million unemployed, about 800 000 workers who have had accidents at work and over 1000 deaths. This is the Italian crisis.
is the country's desperate need to have a guide and a lack of national idea. Hence it should start our pre-founding congress and talk to all the Italian left. Formulas but not by the need to contribute to building a force for its consistency and credibility to be able to dissolve the blatant contradiction between a large social and cultural heritage, made up of resources and values \u200b\u200bwhich only a few regions of the world possess, and such failure confidence in the future for the country where he sat, not risk, not take, no children, dispelling such an immense wealth of business and entrepreneurial skills and the sacrifices of past generations, including the dead of World War II.
To do this we must not jettison the great political heritage and the extraordinary moral and intellectual groove through which our socialism and communism marked the history of Italy and Europe. It's really stupid to think of replacing this with a sort of large civil list. But it would be absurd to deny the need and urgency to "go beyond" the confines of twentieth-century socialism and reformism, but this can not result in or conformist radicalism. And so now is the time to create the new party of the left and leave the door open to other cultures and other reformers, and other socialists to cultural influences to create a true, great strategic alliance. It 's time to call the fight in the great cultures of Europe: that we, like the Social Democrats, Christian, as several friends of freedom and human dignity?
The dialogue is at this height. Downward but does not make explicit what is at stake.
We need democracy.
What is left of our democracy?. Any user of constitutional law teaches us that democracy is "an organization internal state that political power emanates from the people and is exercised by the people - a service which enables the people governed to govern itself through its elected representatives. "
accept definitions like this, a limit to the relevance of the exact sciences, in a transposition of our life experience, would be to disregard the infinite gradation of pathological conditions in front of which you can find our body at any moment of time . In other words, the fact that democracy can be defined with great precision does not mean that it works in reality. Please note we are not replacing the old bureaucracy of the first / second republic with the new bureaucracy of administrators, personal lists, the cult of personality stuff late 800, but "innovation" is only "conservation" or better yet "decommissioning" and return to medieval society.
A quick excursus through the history of political ideas leads us to four reflections often quickly dismissed with the excuse that the world is changing. Because instances of political power trying to deflect our attention from this obvious fact:
1 - in the same election system, are in conflict represented by a political vote and an abdication of civic, as is also true for the parties , you should not take the next conference with the rules of the past;
2 - is it not true that, at the precise moment when the card is introduced in the urn, (or are elected bodies of a party) voter (ol'iscritto) transfers in the hands third, without any reciprocal arrangements if the promises during the campaign (or conferences), the part of political power that had until then as a member of the community of citizens or activists of the party?;
3 - is it not true that when the government of these "elected", "institutions or party" in fact all their faults and re-fall on the shoulders of the voters or the members, and no pay?;
4 - Giving democracy and citizen participation in decisions, must be the basis of our program and our proposal in the future party.
And today is the Nobel Prize for Economics J. Stiglitz to define the problem, ("The roaring fineties", New York, 2003). "No innovation of democratic political life is possible if the private interests of large groups are more important than the interests of the community, or if faced with the overriding interests of some citizens cease to be equal." More reason to examine what is our democracy, what is its usefulness, before claiming - obsession of our age - to make it mandatory and universal.
Think of barbarism and the wars of the last century, were enough to remove two bullets, and R. J Kennedy, Luther King, two planes for the crime of the twin towers of New York. It was not enough to depose two former friends of the West which the Bin Landen and Sadan, the old arsenal of fire in the U.S. and Europe in Iraq and Afghanistan, decimating the helpless civilian population, how many deaths will count against the fine for this crime humanity, for the export of democracy. Recall that in the world today there are about 70 wars provincial indirectly managed by the Western world, intent on exporting democracy.
This caricature of democracy, missionaries of a new religion, we try to impose on the rest of the world, is not democracy.
Someone will say, but the Western democracies are not based on wealth and skin color, and inside the urn or rich citizen's vote counts just as light-skinned than the urban poor or darker skin. At the cost of cooling these enthusiasms, we say that the brutal reality of the world we live in this idyllic setting make it ridiculous, and that, in one way or another, then we end up with an authoritative body hidden under the most beautiful ornaments of democracy and us in Italy we are on track And so, the right to vote, an expression of political will, is both an act of resignation to the will itself, as the delegation to the elector candidate. At least for some people, the act of voting is a form of temporary waiver to a political action staff, held quietly until the next election, when the mechanisms of delegation will return to the starting point, to reactivate the same process. Here
should be able to turn this process. We would like the delegation has returned to men and women in the future party. This must be one of the pillars of our struggle and our political project. This waiver can be for the minority elected, the first step in a mechanism that, despite the vain hope the voters often permitted to pursue objectives that have nothing democratic and which may constitute a genuine insult to the citizens and the law. Today the delegation is snatched, in principle, nobody would think of as elected representatives in the institutions of corrupt individuals, although we know from sad experience that the high echelons of power at both national and international, are sometimes employed by criminals or their representatives. But it is also true that in the last election that took place in Italy: indicted, convicted, piduista to the government, in parliament, the electors of the mafia. Experience confirms that political democracy is not based on economic democracy and cultural diversity is of little utility. Despised and relegated forgotten archaic formulas, the idea of \u200b\u200ban economic democracy has given way to a triumphant market obscenity that led up to the global downturn of the economy. The capital has failed, failed globalization and paid workers. And the idea of \u200b\u200bcultural democracy has been replaced by the no less obscene, a massification of industrial culture, a mixture of cultures and pseudo class that you need to mask the dominance of one of them. We believe we have made progress, but in fact regress.
A genuine democracy, which flooded as a sun of its light all citizens, should start from what we have all at hand, ie the country in we are born, the society in which we live, the way in which we live, the people we encounter and their needs. If this condition is not met - and is not - are vitiated all previous arguments, namely the theoretical foundation and the empirical operation of the system and democracy.
Today in Italy, starting from an appalling and simple: in 2003 three million people "have difficulty in buying food," and the number grows every year. In Italy, not in Africa, more than 3 million people are therefore poor. Below the minimum level of decent survival. Half of those "without food" (how many of them are homeless, as that, in large cities, a flat minimum, 50/70mq, it costs no less than € 600-1200 per month?) and can not eat.
In Italy, a member of the rich West, the wise Europe, most industrialized countries of the fantastic, not everyone has the need. As a new democracy for the marginalized? .. If democracy is truly the government of the people, for the people and by the people, there would be nothing to discuss, but this is not the case. And only a cynical mind would dare to say that all is for the best in the world in which we live. It is also said that democracy is the least bad political system, and nobody points out that this resigned acceptance of a model that is content to be " the least worst, it can slow down to a quest for something "as possible and better."
We know that the democratic power by nature is always provisional. Depends on the stability of the elections, (2008-9 are proof) by the flow of ideologies and interests of the class. You can see in him a kind of barometer organic captures changes in the political will of society. But, flagrantly, there are countless seemingly radical policy alternatives, which have resulted in the change of government, but those are not really accompanied by social, economic and cultural core to suggest that the electoral verdict.
Let's face it: people have elected their governments because they will "offer" to the market. But the market conditions the governments to the "offer" their citizens, valuable material for our consumer society.
In our time of globalization, free trade, the market is the instrument par excellence of the only power worthy of the name, the economic and financial power. This is not democratic because it was not elected by the people, not by the people and especially because it has set as goals the good of the people. Unable to deny the obvious: the mass of poor call vote was never called to rule but only to succumb in the war daily, inflation, unemployment, precarious work, in practice fights every day to get to the end of the month, to survive.
Assuming a government formed by the poor, as it represents the majority, as Aristotle imagined in his "Politics", they did not have the means to change the organization of the universe of the rich who dominate them, monitor them and suffocate them, so here we have a mission to give these citizens the tools to govern, what is this if not socialism. The claim
Western democracy has entered a phase of transformation that is no longer retrograde able to stop and foreseeable consequences of which will be its own negation. There is no need for someone to assume the responsibility to dismiss it, is itself committing suicide every day.
What to do? Reform?
We know that reform, as he wrote so eloquently the author of The Leopard, is nothing if not change what is necessary because nothing changes.
We ask ourselves, has this function, the resulting reform of the Italian left? Renew it? A model for the future as we look at?. Or, at what times of the past would be democratic enough to return, and from there to rebuild it with new / old material, then the democracy we say rimettiamola questioned. If you do not find a way to re-invent not only democracy will be lost, but also hope to one day see human rights respected on this planet. That would be the most resounding failure of our time, a sign of betrayal will mark humanity.
So ... We share the newspaper, the needs of citizens. The pre-conference is a good opportunity to discuss, to restore democracy to our country, the intellectual and moral dignity and energy to get out of the downward spiral that led to the degradation of all cultural institutions, political exclusion of parliament of the left. The difference is, between a minimalist vision that acknowledges the needs and structure of the return, however, the great policy where the stakes are always the problem of the meaning of individual and collective life. Let us not obscure the primary PD.
We know that these words are intended to arouse'ironia the disenchantment of those who practice it as a therapy for domestication of the social passions, but we are convinced that without the emotional investment the prospects of a future different social training to become the first condominium quarrelsome and then a psychiatric clinic of individuals locked in a desperate loneliness.
In this respect, those who think they beat the center right with the challenge of keeping promises or failure with the analysis of financial did not understand the profoundly political and innovative of the Italian right and devastating nature of its own because it is capable of arousing mass consensus and social synthesis, exacerbating aggressive selfishness, racism and the possessive individualism of late modernity.
We come, therefore, to the point of the search for principles and ideas that may establish a new distinction between left, center and right, to regain the trust of citizens, therefore, points of reference for new ideas and a program to talk to people and get back the agreement to become the steering force are: •
The first difference is the concept of democracy and its relationship with the universal human rights. The democracy of which we speak today has become just a technique for opportunistic resource allocation "consensus" and, like all techniques, exportable without reference to cultural identity. Conversely, we believe that democracy is a form of social life oriented to the development of self through the active participation of all citizens in the decisions. Democracy establishing the distinction between public and private sectors. People want to know where they end their money. Democracy is therefore not separable from the search for truth, dall''informazione the facts on which party should take, and his main enemies are lying, suspicion, manipulation and misinformation.
• The second difference is, therefore, foreign policy, which today means nothing more and nothing less than the war on terrorism declared by Bush at the time, Blair / Brown, Sarkozy and Berlusconi and the relations between Europe and the United States with respect to the relations with other cultures and civilizations. Also in this field is the decisive difference between deception and truth. On Iraq, we witnessed all''apologia of lies and hypocrisy of the mission was humanitarian, not given to Italian citizens a fair representation of the enormous interest of economic power and world domination that led Bush to take this unfortunate action. Have been prevented, that every attempt understanding of the reasons why the Islamic world, and even the piety and the reporting of the thousands of dead civilians, women, old people and children, killed by smart bombs, not just the U.S. military. It is shameful that in a democratic country who, while strongly condemning the savagery of terrorism, expressing outrage and condemnation of the massacres of Iraqi civilians, Afghans, is excluded from the civil community and accused of complicity with the enemy. Guernica, the atomic bombs on Japan, the concentration camps we have had to leave the DNA in our outrage at the death. But now something has changed in the U.S. Obama is a new speanza.
• The third difference relates to the protection of life and the environment against the forms of hegemony of science and technology that tend to destroy the specificity of the differences between cultures and social identities. The relationship between technology and life is not only an ethical issue, but highly political, because it comes to choosing between un''omologazione essentially biological, based on the presumed neutrality of technology applied to the living, and a vision of "humanities" of the various companies. Only the great technology policy can govern without subjecting humanity to the technical system is currently linked to the economic interests of major powers.
they should share or not these considerations, in any case it is certain that if you want to beat iperpoliticità the message seems impolitic and in particular the right of Berlusconi and Bossi, you have to raise the level of debate and bring it back on the issues that can now define the terrain of high politics. The PD is not central to the model approved in part and must be recovered to a new dialogue with the left .. If you want, that is, not a way to beat the administration but a vision of society and fashion. You can still, in the era of globalization, we must talk about politics or resign themselves to the great triumph of individualism and individualized impersonal consumerism and hedonism in the form provided by the system-technical-economic system? This is the very ground on which to play the survival of the left.
The new left, are in reality mere empty words if you designate combinations without strong ideas, and values \u200b\u200bguide the focus of our discussion there is not the person. This should be discussed. From here we must begin to rebuild the Left and democracy in our country.
not miss this opportunity, we are discussing and putting in the new Left Party.
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