Journal title SOCIETÀ E STORIA
Author/s Alberto Stramaccioni
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2021/174
Language Italian Pages 23 P. 724-746 File size 253 KB
DOI 10.3280/SS2021-174003
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The author reconstructs the political action and theoretical contribution carried out by Raniero Panzieri (1921-1964) in the years of economic and social modernization after the Second World War in order to identify the main themes that gave birth to a new anti-capitalist culture alternative to that of the historical left. His paper in based on consistent biographical records and on an equally relevant historiographic investigation. The socialist leader - according to the author - was strongly critical of the reformist policies of the PCI and PSI; he proposed to build up a new left better equipped for an effective defense of the working class. The Leninist model was to be replaced by an organizational structure truly in the service of the working class Panzieri was in favour of new forms of direct democracy against the traditional union and political-parliamentary mediation; he also argues that we must reinterpret the Marxist theory and strive a new sociology of the working class beyond historical dogmatism. Consensus for these ideas could not be expected in the area of the historical left, but they fed the political action of a new generation of militants active in the two-year period ‘68-’69 and then find space in the seventies and eighties in many magazines and political groups. Even today, out of any anachronism or comparative analogy, the author suggests, they can still arouse some interest in the face of profound changes in the capitalist system induced by rapid technological progress.
Keywords: Raniero Panzieri, new left, neocapitalism, operaismo, labourism, neo-Marxism.
Alberto Stramaccioni, L’eredità di Raniero Panzieri. Una nuova cultura anticapitalistica in "SOCIETÀ E STORIA " 174/2021, pp 724-746, DOI: 10.3280/SS2021-174003