"Rediscovering Welfare and needs only way the Left in Europe can get back to winning"
Gravagnuolo Bruno, United
'October 6 2009
Berlusconism populism is privatized. Dividing the nation and tends to the dictatorship of the majority. Against it we do not want a radical left, which raises national unity and its polar star of all time: justice and equality. " Talk of Italy Giorgio Ruffolo, economist, environment minister from 1987 to 1992, a former member the secretary of the DS. And left for Italy in Europe. On which is very critical, because of its "subordination to the new capitalism." And this is the heart of his diagnosis of the troubles of social democracy, which "has thrown away the paper of the European Union, failed to pursue the third way to Blair." And the Democratic Party? Clear opinion about the values \u200b\u200bthat must be taken. And choosing not to take sides at the conference: "From" Cartesian "I stop the method and some clear and distinct ideas. Then we'll see who will make her. "
start. Ruffolo, opposing ideas on the defeat of the SPD. On the one hand, the accusation of moderate centrism sozial for the Democrats, on the other that of an identity exceeded. His argument is what?
"The theme of" German "of the SPD should be viewed in a broader key: the decline of the Left in Europe. Where in Latin America and the United States the trend is different. It is significant that the debacle of matches left in the old continent with a great slaughter in the U.S. right wing. What Obama is not ipso facto a success of the Left, given the latter's caratteritiche in America. And once again, however, instances of the left, from managing the economy to health. In Europe it is the opposite, for two reasons: the absence of unsoggetto, and that of a project. The first arises from the decline of the working class as a unifying factor Army left. The social structure has not been concentrated in two large blocks antagonistic blocs as predicted by Marx ...».
The employee is increased by the reserve army of lumber. So?
"But the working class is now a fraction of the non-dominant social, which can no longer be the pivot of the left. However under the new geography of work, there would be potential for alternative unoschieramento. Missing, however, the focus around which to define a strategy for action. I think the central mistake of the Left has been to not take the opportunity of Europe as a lever to raise. On what? The welfare state - to defend and innovate - Should be the workhorse of the left. The frontier advanced. Species at the time of global capitalism. "
The European left, as the guardian of financial balances, has been too accommodative and subordinate compared to laissez-faire?
"He abandoned his hallmarks. State social policy needs, infrastructure and culture. To embrace a liberal marketism second order. It was a real yield of principles, to withdraw into a fence social-nationalist, as Nino Andreatta said. "
360gradi A bow to the language of national private companies? That is politics as administration, citizen-user, profit and competitiveness as the dominant imperative?
"Exactly, a policy" neutral ", and how to draw. While the great idea of \u200b\u200bsocialism was that of welfare, and needs to reorganize the market, which was revived on a European scale. With respect to competitiveness, as seen from left, is a constraint, not an objective absolute. And then the same financial capitalism, multinational and concentrated, is leaving. Other than free competition among entrepreneurs. "
and finance - the rhetoric of "rules" aside - the left has done its job or not?
"He has shown to be dominated by the new capitalism and its principles, just as which came into crisi.Un great betrayal, rather than an error. Kingdom error itself had thrown away the European card, with which to relaunch the economy and address on a transnational scale. "
Coming to Italy, there was a lack of technocracy and an excess of rigor in the center-left governments, until you hit the middle class and employment?
"Technocracy is not a dirty word. Maybe in Italy there was a bit 'left! Would serve to forecast, and the technical management of this crisis of capitalism vertical. Against which the left has not had anything to say, a lack of analysis that was not there in the old Marxism. You instead passed a culture steeped in neutral and uncritical words: modernization, rules, flexibility, market. Socialism is not a matter of rules, madi aspirations. Alternative forms of production, and pressing social needs. Chenon are SUVs or mobile phones, maistruzione, health, environment, education, jobs. "
Putting these needs at the center as a 'request', it can stimulate the accumulation?
"You can boost demand in the meantime, imprimendoleuna diversa.Nonprevalentemente direction to individual consumption, but to the collective needs, which are the focus of a company. So, not "marketization socialism", but to reduce it its basic needs. With the welfare in the Lead. " The right in Europe
robs the lever to the left of the state and is the guarantor of needs. For example Tremonti pressure on the banks 'exorbitant' to push them to bet on the recovery. The controversy can reap success?
"In the big battles wins around the enemy on the wings, taking the opponent's court. Something similar is happening with Sarkozy or Tremonti, who ride with sign changed topics on the left, those who left was unable to revive and reinvent. Tremonti? There are many reasons on his side, and set out with skill in his books, perhaps contradicting practice. But do not criticize when you can say the right things. On Banks is right. Moreover, the current crisis from which comes only from a pathological superfetation of financial and banking system? "
Berlusconi. Its real strength is the owner of individualism, which moves a block and an imaginary social media. What kind of party we want the left and against?
"More than individualism, privatization would speak of populism, demagogy and selfishness in the sense of having. It is made of a set of grains that formanoun pile of sand. Until the dust disrupted and dangerous, lashed by the wind, which is Italy today. A country more divided between north and south, and penetrated by the Lega. So we need first a Left that opposes the drive nazionale.Conunvero federalism Berlusconi, seen as solidarity pact between the Italians'
Pd.Come should it be? Transverse and majority, oppuredi reformist left, able to form an alliance, rooted and socially recognizable identity?
'An account of coalition alliances are necessary, the other transversal. That are confusing and bankruptcy, as the Third Way of Blair. Instead, the PD must be recovered to the left: justice, equality, without a cap. At Norberto Bobbio. We can say that the left is the 'emancipation of the lower classes, "as the basis of justice? "Exactly as the base. And I am totally against abandoning the word left. Would mean giving up the essentials, and to condemn political impotence. "
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