A man and a political leader in the round
Our last conversations were full of future
Alfonso Gianni
Liberation December 29, 2004 I met
Eliseo Milani later. Later, with regard to his long political militancy. Now is exactly the past quarter of a century is not just between people in attendance. I met him he was already an authority on the diverse field to the left of the Left Party. What is more important in the past had a PCI, particularly in that of Bergamo was part of the historical group of the Manifesto, was a senior Pdup. I met him on one occasion one of the least conducive in the course of negotiations that no matter how limited it was also harsh and saw that there actually opposed each to represent the legitimate interests of their organization. It was to decide electoral agreements between Pdup and MLS for the parliamentary elections of 1979. Elisha instilled a certain fear, had a reputation as a man often gruff and surly behavior. It made great turns of phrase and went to the point. The fact was then that can arise where a love or hate, indifference was excluded. For my part I was born a deep respect and affection. I understand that only a check to prevent more challenging to define a noun. That estimate and that affection has been strengthened over the years, the political and parliamentary work, attendance in private, it became particularly intense when the health forced him to abandon active politics. But Elisha did not give some the edge of a long political argument that he constantly proposed, providing advice always dictated by a great sense of reality. Who believed that Elisha was not primarily a theorist would say the truth, but to think that he was essentially a good organizer and a strong party man, catch only a small aspect of his personality more complex. Elisha was a man and a political leader in the round. The policy was his great passion. The Common, that can not even be thought without a deep knowledge of the real movement of society, without a strong emotional connection with people.
Here were the roots of Elisha. It also showed his stories when he spoke of the practical life of many years ago, in the Bergamo valleys, that dignified but severe poverty, which he remembered without lacrimosità or rhetoric, even with the ironic nostalgia that characterizes the people who have a sense of history and the complexity of human affairs. If you happen to enter the last house inhabited by Eliseo in Rome, found it full of books of history and the history of ideas, rather than political chronicles. But these readings, conquered without having had the good fortune to an adequate education in what was his life, allowed him to power and political instinct and intuition to merit consideration even in areas very different from ours that has never failed.
His political history is, at least to me, the paradigmatic and enviable. Elisha was a manufacturer of Italian communism, but never resting on its results. He has always taken a steep street and uncomfortable, looking forward and not back to what he left, and he traveled with intelligence, courage and great humanity, thinly veiled, perhaps atavistic shame, the edginess of the character.
Now this life is over. Its not the end comes to us unexpected, but no less painful. Recently, his life was like a rope that was stretched more and more, ready to snap at any moment, but the strength of his soul and even his mood have never abandoned. Our last conversations were full of the future, both for large as for the little things. I think, therefore, clear that it is turned off. I am convinced that he did not even make us suffer. Hello, Elisha.
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