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Eliseo Milani: more than a garden
Michele Half
Eliseo Milani, who died the night of Dec. 27, the hospital in Rome, is a figure, not a few to tell the truth, but even want to credit as many as rhetoric, that ennobles the second row of storia.Lui was a man who, in this with a few others, he chose with full consciousness of being a step backwards to make sure that we could all make many forward . Who writes had the good fortune to know him in the fall of 1970, forming a makeshift headquarters of the then movement of the Manifesto in Milan.
Elisha was already
parliamentary leader of the federation as well as PCI Bergamo. The only federation which approved by a majority of the arguments for communism to various manifesto.Rispetto humanity that gathered around a group of exiled students and some PCI-based framework of union-was a charismatic figure. I met him and had a stack of posters to be exhibited in Milan to announce the birth of the newspaper The manifesto.E that job-count, file, organize, distribute, increase-Elisha would have continued to do, simply because, as he explained that "it 'necessary, essential, and it' better to do it otherwise I touched it again." recalling the figure at the funeral Lucio Magri, the companion of a lifetime of political challenges to orthodoxy, like Elisha said, under the rough bark of party official, had also become an end intellettuale.Giusto.Ma limitativo.In perhaps the ideological storm that it was the '70s. storm that can not ', however, even metaphorically, be compared to the deadly tsunami of these days,' cause along with indisputable errors and crimes, has also produced extraordinary and most vital tremors liberators. In this maelstrom, I said, he met many intellectuals and even too many.
shiny analysts and storyteller who failed were formidabili.Quelli The so-called "ass of stone" or, better yet, the real leaders of men and donne.Gente reliable, common sense and nose up, to confide in those decisions which, when pressed the crowd, take a few minutes, sometimes seconds, but you can score for a whole vita.Eliseo was one of the most questi.Forse 'ready and able to measure the climate of the moment. Risks and potential'. Emptiness' and substance. There was little to do, he understood before. And he used this sensibility 'not as a competitive club, but as a resource tutti.Era extraordinary smile that chewed with its expression by Gene Hackman in a meeting in the aftermath of an event which heralded the outcome. "It takes a nose," he said mercilessly at some of the most charismatic intellectual companion who had exposed a bit troppo.E he said referring to his prominent profile greek.
flair for lontano.Da Elisha came from a village at the mouth of the Brembo, near Bergamo, where he was born into a family with nine other fratelli.Uno scenario that only half the lights can make Ermanno Olmi decipherable.
young at 11 years, goes to the factory in Dalmine. The universities 'work in those tempi.Dapprima the school to apprentice and then produzione.Siamo in the most' white closed in Italy. Where the breach of Porta Pia was still considered an abuse by building communities become riparare.Diventa operaio.Prima militant CGIL.In a factory strike of 5000 workers who sees only one worker at a protest by the union red. guess who proclaimed that Japan was in the forest? Then in the party, which soon became secretary of the cell, responsible for fab Briche Provincial Committee and secretary of the then federazione.Eliseo and already 'grown a lot in frattempo.E begins to put a theme that will become' history on the left: the relationship with the cattolici.Siamo not only in the province more 'Italian white, but also in the land of Pope John XXIII, Pacem in Terris is the location of where the social Christianity is launching a competitive challenge to the Communist workers' movement.
Elisha responds in his own way. Work on the uomini.Apre a gap in the Catholic left, and becomes a cushion for the strand that looks at the PCI, by the same declarant Magri.Ma not enough, Catholics must not only recognize them when they are with us still diceva.E work: CISL, ACLI, scout.finche 'on the eve of the elections of 1963, Togliatti to go to convince the communist leader had never Bergamo.Il stato.Ma not for a rally. Elisha wants to open a real window. Organize a conference on the theme: Communists and Catholics for a new world. Stuff that today would only snort of annoyance complement some of the liberals who run the chair of new thoughts for humanity '. Then we were at war fredda.La Cuba crisis was shake the same PCI pianeta.E felt the first symptoms of fever modernizzazione.Con a center-left yet ambitious and then an economic miracle that pushed the country towards the consumption of massa.Bisognava go further, look oltre.Oltre your garden for the Communist Party more 'healthy West. The event had a major impact.
Togliatti touch 'one of the top of its development' the most original and feconda.La peace was the ground where they can meet between communists and Catholics, will scomuniche.Ma abjurations without the secretary of the PCI had a glimpse of new scenarios, which are at stake prime values-peace, life, living, development, justice, and then the whole policy must change and everyone should give what he has assembled for solutions and not for points of departure. A major turning point that gave frutti.Eliseo was its architect. In the second row.
And again later, when the communist left gave battle in the first fila.Perche partito.Eliseo them was 'they had to risk it. He federation secretary, an official of the party, do not hesitate' to take sides with the opposition. But as always he did with his companions, ever have reason to soli.Nel during the burning XI conference, Bergamo, Italy was the only federation of which rejected the document of the national leadership. And then the dissent, the more 'if the mass was not considered a useful contributo.Da li 'start' then the adventure of Elisha manifesto.Con drag 'in the footsteps of those expelled the vast majority of fellow Bergamaschi.
thousand anecdotes of those formidable years 70. Where Eliseo appeared from time to time, chewing on a half-smile, saying, "It takes a nose, tell them that.'' Prior efforts to invent the newspaper. That only a miracle at that time could concepire.Un bergamasco.Eliseo miracle was in fact the helm. And above all, commitment to undertaking the most 'experts only companions of directors that made the dream a reality.' Then I remember the debate in the election for the submission 72.Tutti infoiati.Compreso writer. In the square are many, vinceremo.E him, quietly, to remind us that we must count the votes in the ballot box, not in events. And yet a thousand rounds of the waltz with their leaders gruppi.Prima Power Operaio.Ai Elisha, to intend ing of what he thought, it persisted in giving of yourself. And then
PSIUP, Workers Vanguard, Movement Studentesco.Ecc.ecc.Lui always to write a second fila.Pronto mano.Soprattutto to offer a compass to those who skidded. Not a few came out unharmed from burning breakers result of his action. But Elisha had
nose really. Not by chance in the 80s as opposed to many on the left, immediately understood the strategic importance 'of the common questions. "And that the new factory," she wrote in Parliamentary 1984.Da you commitment 'in the commission of control over RAI. Expressing ever-it would be interesting to reread the speeches, and Article 21 could acquire them in his archives available to them then-za l'esigen to safeguard the independence and sovereignty 'of public service, with the ambition to have a more rai' later, more 'modern, more' competitive system for the country.
As usual, I see that I made myself get carried away, and I swept the politico.Eliseo Milani was something quite different.
tenerezza.Quella was a man hungry for affection that she did not remember having had in the dormitories with ten brande.Lo showed with his love relationships. Never trivial. Always loads a courtship ritual in which he could not give up. Even when he was clearly superfluo.Oppure in dealing with children who had not been able to mature with his only daughter, which was separate from the storms of life of Elisha militante.Conservo still a movie that rocks my newborn daughter in the sea. No recognition of the Brembo sharp Texan who intimidated the owners of the Manifesto.Con him I have lost something more than 'a amico.Ma this pain I do not arrogate to themselves exclusively. Aldo with me, Sandro, Guido, Mauritius, and all those young fellows who 30 years ago now find themselves more and graying 'alone. With the unique, secure, privilege, for 30 years have had a look in the second row followed them. Thanks Elisha.
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