NAPLES (ITALPRESS) – Craxi was right “because historically, compared to the dramatic delays of the communist tradition (from Hungary to Czechoslovakia and after); to the residues of ideologism present in so many programmatic approaches related to economic growth, the reformist and social democratic culture proved to be successful. And then, because in reading the social transformations that invaded our country, the socialist reading was more ready and responsive to reality.” So said Vincenzo De Luca, President of the Campania Region in an interview with “L’Avanti” on the anniversary of the death of the former Psi secretary.When asked “Craxi and Berlinguer. Two great leaders, their misunderstandings are the synthesis of two lefts that never met to make synthesis. In the 1980s, the time was not ripe. Is this the challenge of the next decade?” the governor replied, “Characters certainly weighed in as well. But they weighed most of all the stories whose daughters and expressions they were. I don’t like shifts of opinion and assessments that change with the political seasons. And it is those histories that we must critically analyze, in order to arrive at an entirely possible and necessary synthesis. Berlinguer was the son of those who had paid the hardest for the open struggle against fascism; led the postwar struggles for land and labor; suffered political discrimination, and built a sense of organization. It was difficult to erase this history even when, with the passage of time, it ended up giving rise to an inability to analyze modernity, to an attitude of unbearable presumption of moral superiority and diversity with respect to interlocutors. Craxi fought against this completely unfounded form of presumption, and he read social changes lucidly, defended even more effectively the world of labor itself. But he then became entangled in two limitations: a work not done on the party, and a reading that was ultimately uncritical of the limits that dominant liberalism was beginning to show. Today, on the basis of these historical assessments it really does not make sense to make a separation devoid of substance. “Craxi,” he adds in the interview conducted by Gaetano Amatruda and which was also relaunched on the website ‘Il Pezzo Impertinentè,’ “was a giant in foreign policy. He unambiguously placed our country in the field of Western alliances, within NATO; but demonstrating an autonomy and national dignity that is still an example today. The thought goes to Sigonella, of course, when Craxi showed that Italy decides in Italy. It was a great policy the opening to the Middle East and emerging countries, and the careful relations with the Palestinian people. Truly a great example. “On justice,” he declared, responding to a specific question, “the Pd has great responsibilities: for the elements of subalternity demonstrated; for not having had the courage to take a coherently guaranteeist line, and to assume the value of the dignity-freedom of the person as a founding value in a democratic system. Even today, beyond an unseen reformist courage, I do not recall a word of solidarity with citizens whose lives have been destroyed by excesses of justicialism, by judicial errors that are sometimes baffling.” “Parties,” he explains, “have become empty shells. They are no longer instruments of education and struggle for rights and change. They are places of education not for freedom and autonomy of thought, but places of education for opportunism. On the programmatic level, the progressive area has great voids of analysis, ideas and proposals: the issue of justice, as mentioned; security; radical unbureaucratization; in relations with the Catholic world; the South; concrete proposals, not just slogans on health care; peace. The inability to seriously address these issues detracts from the credibility of a prospect of government.”- photo Agenzia Fotogramma -(ITALPRESS).
