Pier Paolo Pasolini defining the PCI one country in the country "has, in my view, took the most significant aspect of the life of the largest and most important Communist party in Western Europe.
The Italian Communist Party has always been a constant and decisive in the history of twentieth-century Italy. Since its birth until his death in fact the Communist Party was a party that, for better or for worse, has left its mark in all the major events of Italian history. During the Fascist regime was the only party to be present illegally in Italy and trying to oppose, even with very limited means, to a system that otherwise, in national borders, it would be unchallenged. Also can not be challenged by any hegemonic role of the Communist Party over the other anti-fascist forces during the Resistance. And finally, for over forty years, the Communist Party and the Christian Democrats were the main protagonists of the Italian democracy that, although with different roles, have both contributed to establish and grow.
So if the Christian Democrats, the main ruling party, can rightly be given a good historical analysis, the same treatment should be reserved for his rival, the Communist Party, which he has described in many phases of its existence to the constraints of the Union Soviet Union, has played a continuous role in Italian politics and can be considered in all respects "another important part of the country." Not otherwise explain why the same DC, with the end of the Communist Party, ceased to exist. In fact, although Tangentopoli have put the tombstone on the left of the "crusader shield," the DC is dead only after having completed his main task, which barred the doors of government to the Communists. Corruption in Italian politics has been a leitmotif for the '80s, and he proved his insistence on "moral issue" as a clean leader Berlinguer, but Tangentopoli, with all its consequences, was able to move until that the "communist threat" had been eradicated.
The PCI has also been an important reference, and in some cases irreplaceable, in the stories of millions of individual men and women of our country. A huge community, a country Party that stretched across the country and in Italy that "being friends" and have the PCI card in his pocket was an inalienable right of citizenship. In any Italian he was, even the most remote desert, a comrade of the Communist Party could go to a section of the party to ask for help or simply to entertain. It 's a story that could tell that many southern migrants to the north which many times was the Communist Party to provide initial reception and, and This certainly the most important thing, to act to make them feel "less alone". And how many stories they could tell the laborers of Cerignola to which the Party has taught "not to take off his hat to the master work" and ask, with dignity, respect for their rights, thus making them become "citizens." When this story is over in many orphans and felt a lot of people, families and friends were not the same.
But just because it's over this story could be told. And despite the obvious limitations, could all be told from beginning to end.
I tried with the work done at do this and have certainly been valuable for me the work of those who, in previous years. has spent so much time of their lives to write the history of this party. Among these, the greatest of all, the reference point unattainable and that unfortunately had to leave their work incomplete, was Spriano, but important contributions were also those of August, Galli, Colarizi, as regards the history of Italian politics and why not, of San Severo Pistil. Why deny that without their commitment to work "relatively routine" reconstruction of the national history of the Communist Party would have been impossible?
