Twenty years ago, Sunday, February 3, 1991, about ninety delegates left the hall of the Twentieth Congress of the PCI, 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 PCI, also highlighting the will legally pursue the political commitment as communists and communist.
A week later, at the Teatro Brancaccio in Rome, attended by thousands of comrades 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 the communist re-establishment 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, invincible even before, 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: Communist Refoundation. Many were the names of potential high pressures were to characterize a newly formed Communist simply as a continuation of previous experience. In choosing the name of communist re-establishment, there was instead a deliberate policy that we consider 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. Rifondazione because they are aware che nella sua storia il movimento comunista ha fatto molti errori ed in particolare che le esperienze del socialismo reale sono fallite, dando vita a regimi che contraddicevano radicalmente gli ideali comunisti. Non quindi semplicemente la ricostruzione di un partito comunista ma Rifondazione Comunista nella consapevolezza che i due termini si qualificano a vicenda, nella consapevolezza che solo una rifondazione teorica e pratica del comunismo avrebbe potuto porsi efficacemente l’obiettivo di superare “sul serio” il capitalismo. In questo senso rifondazione comunista non ha dato vita solo ad un partito ma ha esplicitato una indicazione generale, chiara sulla necessità della rifondazione del comunismo.
Accanto ai primi soci founders and many many more were added in the coming months, PRC became a crucible 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 re-foundation. For better or for worse re-establishment was not just a political phenomenon but it was an experience of the people, a public space we would say today. I want to remember because the story is the re-establishment of an exemplification 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 re-founding. 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 right here confirm, in not identifying the party with its management teams and put in the middle the life of the party's participation.
Today, twenty years later, seeing how fake the PDS, then DS and PD then you can fully appreciate the rightness of the choice of the founders of the new foundation. The reason for the existence of communist re-establishment does not lie only in the failure of political experience born from the dissolution of the PCI or subjectively 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 that capitalism is not the best of all worlds. The ultimate foundation of our existence as the Communist Party of the PRC is right there, in the inability structure of capitalism to respond to the needs of humanity and decency to the conjugation with the limited resources of the planet we live on. The dramatic choice between socialism and barbarism that persists 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 that path re-establishment of communism.
Paolo Ferrero
Paolo Ferrero
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