Paolo Ferrero
Twenty years ago, Sunday, February 3, 1991, about ninety delegates left the hall of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party, which was held in Rimini, not to participate in the dissolution of the PCI and PDS at birth.
immediately call a press conference in which Sergio Garavini, Armando Cossutta, Lucio Libertini, Ersilia Salvato and Rino Serri announced the decision to forge a common training.
The five, along with Guido Cappelloni Arms and Torsos White, then went to the notary to register the symbol of the Communist Party, also highlighting the will legally pursue the political commitment as communists and communist.
A week later, at the Teatro Brancaccio in Rome, thousands of comrades took part in the first mass meeting of what became the Movement for the Communist Refoundation. Brancaccio was exposed to a huge red flag, made by sewing together hundreds and hundreds of flags and thus building, downstairs, the biggest red flag ever.
I think today those men and women who gave birth to Rifondazione must go our thanks. First, for the courage to go against in a time when, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, capitalism seemed to have won the final game. These were the years when Fukujama proclaimed the "end of history" and that capitalism was presented, even before invincible as a natural fact. If the anti-capitalism has not been stifled in Italy was also due to that choice.
I believe that our thanks should be expressed for the chosen name: Rifondazione. Many were the names of potential high pressures were to characterize a newly formed Communist simply as a continuation of previous experience. The choice of name but there was a deliberate policy that we believe still valid today. Communist, because we are Communists and Communists who are fighting for a society of free and equal can be achieved only by overcoming capitalism. PRC, because they are aware that the communist movement in its history has made many mistakes and in particular the experiences of real socialism have failed, resulting in schemes which radically contradicted the communist ideals.
therefore not simply the reconstruction of a communist party, but Communist Refoundation in the knowledge that the two will qualify each other, and that only a theoretical and practical re-establishment of communism would ask the goal of overcoming "serious" capitalism . In this sense Communist Refoundation did not create just one party but they have shown a general guide, clear on the need for re-establishment of communism.
addition to the early founders and many many more were added in the coming months, PRC became a melting pot in which different segments of the left and political experiences of class and communist merged. The construction of the first movement and the Party then, was a great experience for dialogue and the recognition that primarily concerns tens of thousands of militants who came from different stories they learned to talk, to discuss, to seek new ways collectively.
This element of grassroots participation is a distinguishing feature not only the birth, but the experience of the PRC. For better or for worse re-establishment was not just a political phenomenon but it was an experience of the people, public space, we would say today. I want to remember because the history of the PRC is the exemplification one of the slogans of the movement said from the start: free community. I believe that no Italian party members, the so-called base, has counted as counted in PRC. In all the moments of choice and conflict - and have not been few - has always prevailed at the end of the orientation of the companions and fellow members also took on the position of chief executive officers. If we find a confirmation that the term re-establishment has been taken seriously, we can find it in this, not to identify the party with its management teams and put in the middle of the life of the party's participation.
Today, twenty years later, seeing as they are finished and then the PDS the DS and then the Democratic Party, you can fully appreciate the rightness of the choice of the founding of the PRC. Whose raison d'être does not lie only in the failure of political experience born from the dissolution of the Communist Party or be subjective in our communication and community. The underlying reason for our existence is found outside of us, namely the capitalist crisis that is there to remind us how this is not the best of all worlds. The ultimate foundation of our existence is right there, the structural inability of capitalism to address the needs of humanity and decency of conjugation with the limited resources of the planet we live on. The dramatic choice between socialism and savagery that comes back today, tells us how the need for the overcoming of capitalism is more urgent than ever. This is why we, men and women free community, we want to continue along the path taken.
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