Pentagramma Matthew David Scorza
I the 20 October last failed one of the leading intellectuals who not only left but the thought of all the Italian culture has produced since the war then. Vittorio Foa has died after a long life at the forefront: in the partisan struggle against the Germans and fascists before and after the parliamentary politics and active in a literary and journalistic analyzed with wide-ranging rigor and intellectual honesty many aspects that have characterized recent sixty years of our country.
Vittorio Foa was anti-fascist of the first hour, with entry into the movement Justice and Liberty of the Rosselli brothers back in 1933, several years before the racial laws. His efforts against the regime of Mussolini also cost him seven years in prison, from 1936 to 1943, worth a warning, in the case of Foa as all those who experienced the hard way the fascist prisons - some of whom died in the - for all those who, even pride in its institutional role, they want to pass the impractical idea of \u200b\u200bthe existence two distinct historical phases of fascism as a dividing line using the racial laws of war and the alliance with Hitler's Germany, where what happened before these events are supposed to be considered as something acceptable.
already inside the prison and following his release from prison, with the '43 entry in the Action Party, Foa had the opportunity to share policy ideas and experience with some of the Resistance main proponents of thought-European as Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi, who with Poster Ventotene traced the ideological line of the process of European unification.
As a member of the Constituent Assembly took part in the drafting of the Constitution, whose value and relevance in today rimangomo unchanged in respect of his liberal spirit, anti-totalitarian and democratic, despite the continuous cross-accusations of anachronism and the many attempts to change more or less radical which it is subjected.
Since the late '40s Vittorio Foa has divided its efforts between the work of journalists, the three terms of parliamentary deputy from the ranks of the PSI, and that of trade union leader. Just in this area, first by menbro of the National Secretariat of the CGIL and then as secretary of the National FIOM, demonstrated a rare ability to analyze the socio-economic fabric of the country and far-sighted planning to take actions to protect the rights of workers, echoing the policy of the worker who foretold the experience that really took shape during the '70s.
Even political experience in the strict sense of Foa has demonstrated its capacity to anticipate developments and requirements that would then imposed years later. After the experience in PSIUP followed the division inside the Socialist Party, became leader of the Proletarian Unity Party, with which you placed the goal of create a political force that the left revolutionary groups oriented toward the prospect of a credible alternative government and not just fight, essentially anticipating a breakthrough in timing and content of the choice of the PCI Berlinguer with the historic compromise. In lists of PCI, as an independent, Foa was elected to the Senate in the X term, then participating in the transition from the Communist Party to PDS.
The literary scholar of Turin has throughout the history of Italian democracy touching various topics, with special attention to the changes that have incurred the economic structure of production and product hano these reflections on the lives of workers and organization of the trade union movement. The constant affirmation of the value of anti elemtno destoricizzato as partisan and exaltation of experience have also occupied an important role in the work of Vittorio Foa, particularly in recent years.
The importance of the thought of which seem Foa remains relevant even after his death. He was considered one of the last historical actively able to tell the partisan experience to succeeding generations their own. The value of this story remains intact when one considers how the historical memory of resistance is continually attacked and even imputenemente by establishment figures, who seek the other hand also to rehabilitate the fascist regime and clear and its supposed "morality."
But the lesson of Vittorio Foa becomes even more compelling reading in its curriculum policy, the fight against a totalitarian regime to establish a democratic system to continuous efforts aimed to implementation of the principles enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic. For this reason its civil commitment can only push the indignation toward the current political situation, characterized by a democratically elected executive but that goes beyond the daily functions of Parliament and as a reflection of the sovereign people.
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