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Pierluigi Bersani: the distant past

Pierluigi Bersani was born in 1951. In his official biography says he then studied and graduated in philosophy (with a dissertation on Pope Gregory the Great) and was married in 1980 with the pharmacist in his country. No other dates. It quickly moves to 1990 (Bersani then 39 years), when Bersani was elected vice president of the Emilia-Romagna. It mentions a short period of teaching, to militancy in the Communist Youth League and the Italian Communist Party, PCI, for a position as vice president of community montana Piacenza (?), and the election in the Regional Council of Emilia, with the PCI. This jump in 1990 may want to delete the militancy of communist Bersani before the fall of the Berlin Wall? It would seem so. In 1970 he was already in the PCI probably graduated around 1975, then it seems to have also done the official party, then party assignments, then elections, then the deputy of the former Socialist Boselli in the region in 1990, and here biographies become lavish ministerial appointments and information on political activity by Pierluigi Bersani. So his distant past is his bread and PCI can hardly say what I told her partner Walter Veltroni ("I am been in the PCI, but I've never been a communist "), because his fellow Emilian, the Peppone, impales him with pitchforks.


In the 70 and 80, the PCI was to abolish the market system and the nationalization of the means of production, if the PCI had 51% of the vote, he wanted to do this, according to its own ideology, its ties with the communist system and its international programs, but must make arrangements with other political forces tried various avenues of compromise. One was to distinguish the central government from the local to the PCI center was in opposition, in local Government, together with others in the liberal system, limited only by some municipal or regional companies. A 'no other way was to aim for an electoral agreement between all the forces of "left" (the social democrats to communists) against the Right and the Christian Democrats (liberals and MSI). The third was called "historic compromise" and was aimed at an agreement between Democrats and Communists, for a solid and sustainable management of power, sending all other opposition parties and small parties, including those of "left". In this frame of reference moved Bersani, as he heads into the PCI-school all the great leaders of the Italian Communists, except Togliatti and Longo. It did not even ramblings, did not work in "civil" society, and only political party, the PCI. When the wing

hardest social reform launched proposals for so-called "structural reform" (Richard Lombardi, 70), the Communists Bersani contrast in substance this line and the socialist proposals, focusing on the "utopia" communist , materialized in the Soviet Union, they considered the social-democratic reformism as a betrayal of the class struggle, while their only interest, pragmatic and Leninist, was to "govern", to manage the power, for what it was in the interests of the class ... workers, defined the Socialists' dirty reformers. "

With the fall of the Soviet system, the Italian Communists, starting with those who had lived only for "bread and communism", they began to have some concern about the deal, they had to become "dirty reformist", trying to usurp ideas and values, even without having no culture or beliefs. The social area, however, had no desire to accept this exodus of members and former communist militants (and more Craxi was nothing short of anti-communist): the shadow of 'the Soviet Union, its money with which the militant network PCI had lived and statist and authoritarian policies imported, continue to fear Despite the 'Italian comrades. " And the area was so moved by socialist reformist socialists, but also by lay Catholics, liberals and libertarians.

The Communists then were at a crossroads, or occupy by military force, with massive enrollments, the Socialist Party, PSI, or groped a small coup against the party "government." They tried and they got it the second way, using, along with the MSI and the newly formed league, a handful of judges. So the soldier of the PCI Bersani remained the only job he could do, the party official, this time on the card, a Social Democrat, "dirty reformist." Not only that, to cover the shame the turnaround with a fig leaf, he saved his friend from the ravages Boselli anti-socialist, took it with him for a few years, and almost had to cover the reward in the management of power Emilian, all Communists, with the use of a small socialist to hold showed.

Behold, this was Bersani: anti-reformist, anti-socialist, pro-Soviet bureaucrat conservative power of his employer, the party, but with a kindly face, the worst!