Re: CHAT: R: Re: CHAT: San Marino

Piermaria ha scritto:

> At 13.38 23/08/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Well, it was ruled at one point by a coalition of parties, one of which
> >was called 'Communist', IIRC.  I don't think that really counts as
becoming
> >Communist.  Was there a Dictatorship of the Proletariat or a Supreme
> >Soviet to get people to do things?
>
> Oh, well, Italy has had a government led (as chief of the executive) by
the
> leader of the democratic party of the left - formerly known as italian
> communist party...
> Fortunately :-) [but I don't want to start a major flame here] Italy is
> ruled now by a somewhat leftish group - also if not so much to the left,
> indeed.
Always better than those f***ing guys of the right as [censured] ....

(lease, let us not start a major flame because of my delirium. )

Fortunately the Italian Communist Party hasn't been really communist in the
last thirty years. Only immediately after the WWII we've had a real
Communist movement (Togliatti), but it wasn't hard communist - it was kind
of a peripherical movement with specific connotations, perfectly portrayed
by Guareschi in his books. Or try to read Silone's 'Il segreto di Luca' (not
*mine* secret : ) ), with his description of the local cooperative's see: on
the wall, next to the portraits of Lenin and of Marx, there's always that of
Virgin Mary : )

After all, I find it beautiful living in a country where the communism has
never been fought and has always been one of the main political movements.
We don't have to pay for school nor for wealth services as much as people do
in Switzerland or in the USA!

Luca