Florence 4 and 5 July - Friday 4th Meeting of Thinking Left - Saturday 5th National Seminar could serve? I do not know ... but still better than silence and receive public
--------- National Seminar, 5 July 2008
Whose politics? The different forms and modes of political
groups in collaboration with the Municipality of Florence Board of PRC, SD, Green and Unaltracittà / unaltromondo
Location:
Florence at the Palazzo Vecchio, Piazza della Signoria
SCHEME START OF WORK
: 9.30
opening session: Anna Picciolini
Introduction: Maria Luisa Boccia, Pino Ferraris, Paul Ginsborg, Giulio Marcon
WORKSHOPS: 11 am-16.30 (13.30-hour lunch break 14.30)
FINAL PLENARY report with the working groups: 17-19 hours
PROVISIONAL
logical index of the Workshop
The four workshops exploring different areas in a single proposal - that the left can not be reborn if does not put the center of its activities, the creation of ever-widening circles of the city s with an approach deeply critical than the current organization of society, able to fight together to trigger mobilization, break and reform, and add s to entirely new ways and rules to be together in a democratic and nonviolent.
Mode: the discussion of each working group is sponsored by four facilitators / facilitators who have the task of organizing and presiding over the introduction la discussione, definire il report per la plenaria finale, predisporre la pubblicazione degli atti ( prossima comunicazione)
Workshop 1: Soggettività, rapporti interpersonali, politica.
Il personale è politico. La necessità di partire dalla soggettività e dai territori della coscienza individuale. La politica non come missione esterna e estraniante ma come realizzazione di un progetto insieme individuale e comune, governato da rapporti interpersonali di rispetto, di auto-disciplina, di non-aggressione, di solidarietà. La cultura del pacifismo non solo come ambizione esterna ma come pratica interna. Le regole che derivano da un’impostazione simile – l’inclusività, encouragement to the other and the other to speak, job rotation, timing of interventions agreed the same for everyone, the individual's capacity to contain and make room. The criticism of the leader, charismatic and narcissistic, increasingly demanded by contemporary politics at all levels and more and more away from any substantial democratic model.
So far we have been able to practice these alternative models of coexistence and still most of the way we do politics reflects the more traditional ones. The need to radically rethink and the evolution of behavior and rules. The contribution of feminism and the women's movement in this process. Women and men in our movement - Values, inequality, patriarchal practices continuing. The search for a democratic community based on gender equality and the recognition of difference - not a community per se, falsely neutral.
The famous dictum of Clausewitz - 'war is the continuation of politics by other means' - must be overturned. E 'policy today, with its practices and often violent language, which is a continuation of war by other means. How do we create a different policy, which comes off in its rules and its methodology from the violence around us? A policy of
as the opposite of war, that is as non-destructive way to manage conflicts. Where to start violence, coercion, imposition, subjugation ... end of conversation, "good relations" participation and "good policy". The methods of non-violent exercise of power as a shared system of social regulation are the heart of politics.
Workshop 2: The old and new forms of political aggregation.
beginning of the twentieth century the unstinting denunciation of Robert Michels, still a thrilling significance, the great mass party which was the German Social Democracy. The internal logic of the party strongly top- and bureaucratized, his language all decorated with military symbolism. The continuity of this model for the entire twentieth century Europe, with very few exceptions. The variant of democratic centralism-Leninist Communist fertile for the centralization of power, much less for substantive democracy. In Italy the educational function of the mass party model community for solidarity and class consciousness, acculturation, the territorial settlement, social mobility (in and outside the party), but its also a strong tendency verticalize power, to strengthen traditional gender roles and to create fideism and leaders. Mange-tout his attitude towards civil society and the formation of a sub-culture community rather than a plural community of citizens with the critical.
Lack of secularism (not in the sense of Church-State relations, but in the sense of critical approach).
The search for new models of aggregation that are contrary to the experience of the twentieth century. We really want to save the concept and practice of the party, and if the answer is yes, in what form? ? Examples of parties such as associations, associations such as the late-nineteenth-century Belgian Labor Party, analyzed by Ferraris. Their bases in mutuality, strength class, the functional and horizontal federalism. Their integral relationship with civil society - not egemonizzante, non-bureaucratic organizations without collateral. A party that grows from the civil society and able to represent it in all its diversity. On the other hand, the difficulties of adapting a model late-nineteenth century to today's reality. The fragmentation of the contemporary individual identities, the danger of proposing models of social living and working in the area that are antiquated and outdated.
The current proposal is an aggregation policy based on social and emerging local and regional autonomy in the context of a substantial federalism. The need for a transparent form of political organization, Rome-fleeting, that 'deconstructs, transfers, decentralization, lower, making it distributes power manageable and controllable by direct forms of subjectivity of self-government '(Paolo Cacciari). It metternichiana of power that falls into streams from the magnificent imperial fountain. Our counter-image of the water that goes down but not salt.
perennial tension between efficiency and democracy: feminism, environmentalism, movements have failed, despite efforts to overcome the dualism between plurality and unity, the gap between achieving the broadest consensus within a reasonable time and operational guidelines. What procedures and rules of decision in an organization decentralized policy unit and plural?
continuing tightness of the politics and cultures of the movements of the last forty years.
Workshop 3: Democracy, participation and deliberation.
The current weakness of representative democracy, undermined from the ineffectiveness of the institutions, very little confidence in the political class and its parties, dall'autoriproduzione the political sphere as a separate sphere from society. The need to combine participatory democracy and representative democracy, freedom of the ancients with that of the Moderns. The fashion of words commonly used in Europe to offer consultation and participation as a remedy the democratic weakness, but the nature and largely instrumental to these bogus attempts. The warning from the Independent about the state of British democracy, Power to the People (2006): 'The evidence we received ... is that the popular cynicism towards the public consultation is very strong. The process is widely regarded as meaningless, since it is often unclear what a consultative process could influence the final decisions taken by officers or representatives'
Two parameters are required to identify a process of enrichment through democratic participation. The first, the degree to which that process, focusing sulla continuità della partecipazione, contribuisce a creare cerchie sempre più ampie di cittadini critici, informati, partecipi, che dialoghino con politici e amministratori su una base definita di eguaglianza e rispetto reciproco. Il secondo, il grado in cui le prassi deliberative contribuiscono a mutare il comportamento stesso dei politici e l’idea che essi hanno delle loro prerogative e dei loro doveri . Improbabilità, nell’assenza dell’uno o dell’altro parametro, che la sperimentazione deliberativa contribuisca molto al rinnovamento a lungo termine della democrazia.
Uso dei nuovi strumenti di democrazia partecipata per arricchire le nostre forme di democrazia interna. Potenzialità positiva del modello of the 'Electronic Town Meeting' and other forms of 'Open Space Technology', and the involvement of many people in meetings 'traditional' would never take the word, nor would vote. Aging and inefficient from the standpoint of many of our present democratic forms of aggregation and decision making. Use of 'e-democracy' but also irreplaceable meeting face-to-do, experiment with new ways of communication in the movements and elsewhere - the circle, the round of reviews, small groups ....
Workshop 4: The change through action reform.
social traditions and social-democratic reforms that descend from the top to citizenship atomized, grate (not always) but passive. This process as a key historical reading of the European welfare state. By contrast, the proposal of 'rolling Reforms', that is, reforms that, along the way, lead people to become interested in politics, self-organize, to take an active and ongoing reform process.
historical example of the decrees of 1944, the communist minister of agriculture Fausto Gullo, on agrarian reform in the South. One of the key decrees allowed peasants to occupy land uncultivated or poorly cultivated in organized themselves into cooperatives, 'the new law, imposing farmers to organize cooperatives and committees in order to receive benefits under, was the strongest incentive for their collective action '.
The socialist and communist tradition (Giolitti, Lombardi, Togliatti, etc..) Of structural reform. In their lack of conceptual processing in active citizenship. The individual is the new container is the main character of political action.
The possibility of 'rolling Reforms' in action on the environment: the recycling and energy conservation, and the scope of participation: the participation of advisors who invest in trials of self-organization truly collective and continuous basis. The experiences of the Val di Susa and Vicenza as examples of substantial involvement and participation of citizens in relation to government.
the need for measures in relation to the nature of the reforms possible alliances with the Democratic Party. The theme, complex but unavoidable, the state's role in relation to the methodology of reform. The "revolution" as a process of reform that can not anticipate all outcomes, because these processes also depend on active participation (Lidia Menapace).
------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------
Accessions to June 26: Sunrise Sasso, Aldo Tortorella, Alfonso Gianni, Alzetta Andrea, Andrea Mountain, Antonio Signorini, Antonio Ferrentino, Aurelio Mancuso, Sarasini Bia, Bianca Pomeranzi, Chiara Locks, Ciro Pesacane, Dalma Domenghini, Daniela Dioguardi, David Biolghini, Elettra Deiana, Elizabeth Piccolotto, Enrico Lauricella, Francis Piobbico, Francis Raphael Frieri, Franco Russo, Fulvia Bandol, Gigi Sullo, Giorgio Airaudo, Gloria Buffo, Grazia Zuffa, Katia Zanotti, Lalla Trupia, Lidia Menapace, Marco Berlinguer, M. Grace Campus, Marco Deriu, Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, Marina Pivetta, Marisa Nicchi, Maurizio Acerbo Valiani Mauro, Michele Di Palma, Nicola Nicolosi, Paola Patuelli, Paolo Bagnoli, Paolo Cacciari, Paolo Hutter, Piero Di Siena, Pietro Folena, Raffaella Chiodo, Renato Cardazzo, Roberta Fantozzi, Roberto Giordano, Salvatore Bonadonna, Silvana Pisa, Stefano Ciccone, Tamar Pitch, Tiziano Rinaldini, Viviana Ciavorella
------------ -------------------------------------------------- --------------------
Readings: This is a very partial reading list. The link with the themes of each workshop is only indicative, given the close connection between them: many of the readings given are "borderline."
However, for the first workshop on a text that is the point on the various aspects:
Marco Deriu, Critical Dictionary of the new wars, EMI, 2005
For the second and the third workshop interesting contributions made in the Alternative for socialism, No. 5, 2008, on page 47, page 105 (especially those of P. Ferraris, ML Boccia, L. refining). Texts
definitely unavailable it would take to scan, are shown only to highlight the debate about what policy is on the agenda for at least 20 years. These three publications of the Center State Reform: Militancy
without membership - No 6 Materials and Instruments of Democracy and Law - 1986
The kind of representation - No 10 Materials and Instruments of Democracy and Law - 1988
Voice and silence. The women in the political crisis of the 90s - No 22 Materiali e Atti di Democrazia e Diritto - 1993
E’ esattamente di 20 anni fa un testo di Lidia Menapace, facilmente reperibile in rete:
Lidia Menapace, Divertirsi politicando (per un sistema pattizio di forme politiche) 1988,
In particolare sul terzo workshop:
Stefano Rodotà, Tecnopolitica: la democrazia e le nuove tecnologie della comunicazione. Laterza, 2004
Luigi Bobbio, Dilemmi della democrazia partecipativa, in Democrazia e diritto, n.4, 2006
Franco Russo, Democrazia identitaria e rappresentanza, in Alternative per il socialismo n. 4, 2008
Paul Ginsborg, la democrazia che non c'è, Torino, Einaudi 2006.
For the fourth workshop:
Paul Ginsborg, structural reforms in the debate of the fifties and sixties, in Historical Studies, vol. XXXIII (1992), nos., 2-3, pp. 653-68
For a gender approach that covers all the workshops, we show two texts, one of the other old political philosophy, with the knowledge of neglecting a huge bibliography:
Maria Luisa Boccia, The political difference, The Assayer 2002
NM and A. Filippini Scattigno (ed.), An incomplete democracy. Women and Politics in Italy dall''800 nowadays, F. Angeli, 2007
For information and subscriptions: info@xsinistraunitaeplurale.it
FRIDAY July 4, assembly of Thinking Left
Location:
Florence at the Palazzo Vecchio, Piazza della Signoria
Time: 15-19
- Proposed organization of Thinking Left: a network for the building a community of political research at the left (by the
Working Group: A. Di Corinto, M. Di Paola, T. Fattori, M. Ilardi, S. Levrero)
- Presentation of the research track (prepared A. Tortorella, ML Boccia, G. Marramao)
- Discussion and suggestions for work
The contents of this site is pubblicati sotto una
Licenza Creative Commons
.
Peter Orsatti 
number 26 2008 
Pietro Orsatti 
Promoted Assembly in April 19 in Florence "For a united and plural left" - Working Group on Methods of politics "