the the name of Marco Pannella evokes so many conquests, so many battles, so many excesses. So many images, especially, inextricably linked to a political leader who fought with the body, with the image and the materiality of the body, in Italian political quell’agone that at the time of the thunderous burst pannelliana treated the body as an annoying hindrance, something to distrust the unchallenged domination of the ideological conceit. Pannella went instead body and soul, literally, in the Italian political scene. How different from all others, orator thin and lanky, even more disheveled hair and white in contrast with the black sweater worn the mode of French existentialism. Different with the sign permanently attached to the neck in the demonstrations in favor of divorce. Different in its skeletal thinness during some hunger strike and thirst. Different when it was immortalized gagged the cameras. With the ever-lit cigarette, even after the heart operation, already ahead with age. Or when he allowed the arrest of the police during some manifestation of civil disobedience. Different when passed Christmas and the New Year to battle for the amnesty of prisoners or company, to claim the respect of the constitutional dignity of individuals, also, and especially of those who are serving their sentences in prison for their mistakes: “Nobody touches Cain”.
He has made a lot of mistakes if neither he also noticed
Marco Pannella has committed many errors, dictated by what the Christian terminology would be called arrogance and unbridled self-esteem: if they even noticed him, if he would never admit it, proud as he was. But in the computation of the reasons and wrongs, the former have significantly outperformed the latter. An excess of suspicion led him to be wary of strong figures in and out of the Radical Party, the new guard or among friends flankers, could obscuring the splendid solitude. He fell in love too often at his own words, unaware of Castro’s mode vaguely toward which brought him his oratory torrential. Sometimes he could not resist his strong prophetic and ecumenical side, bending the Radical Party in a witness role somewhat ‘sterile in the battle, in itself praiseworthy, against world hunger. And he did not notice, around the nineties, the Institute attrition referendum, crushed by a proliferation of questions not always felt by the public, stressed by the abuse that ultimately led to the devaluation of the referendum itself.
he has brought the banner of civil rights
But the errors inevitably punctuate every political undertaking that has the breath and the ambitions of the historical transformations. And no mistake will dim the simple, elementary observation: Pannella brought in the heart of the political battle an unknown flag before, or silenced or sidelined, the banner of civil rights. A dimension alien to the majority of the political cultures that had ventured in the years of the then young republican Italy, largely insensitive to issues of the modern individual, individualism, individual freedom, inspired more or less intransigent forms of collectivism, multiculturalism, in which the primacy of the state, the public, the party, the history, the class, the church had a wide use dogmas.
The battle for divorce
With the battle for divorce, Pannella helped to undermine this order of priority. The “rights” of individuals were not covered by of Catholic culture which also had a vision of the “person” who wanted to subtract it from the suffocating coils of the state. They were not considered from the left by communist culture, who dismissed them as unnecessary, enactment of a bourgeois sensibility alien to the needs “popular” (mica you divorced, families of the working class!). And they did not have much space left in the socialist and secular culture, even if the signatories of the divorce law was basically a socialist, Fortuna, and a liberal, Baslini.
the rite of excommunication on one side of the left
But Marco Pannella stirred the waters of Italian politics by the civil rights ram that would have demolished the wall of mistrust towards individuals that those rights were the legitimate holders. She bursts into Italian politics by un’irruenza that put into play every bit of its public presence. His fight for “fair justice”, a few years after that on divorce and abortion, in the decade of the eighties, when Italy met the monstrous judicial manipulation against Enzo Tortora, physically massacred by an abnormal use of the powers of a judiciary supported by the media chorus, challenged the conformism, the quiet life, the addiction of many Italians to the iniquities of a system that did not know the liberal counterweight of the right and balance. And fortunately Pannella and the Radicals found themselves in this battle garantista and civilization the unconditional support of a restless figure and irregular as Leonardo Sciascia, which is why it suffered the rite of excommunication by a left prisoner of his obsessions illiberal.
Much maligned by the chorus of conformists
Even this Marco Pannella was much maligned by the chorus of conformists and the Pasdaran of the powers and the ideological orthodoxies that greeted enthusiastically the accident Toni Negri who fled abroad after being fitted with the parliamentary election on lists of Radicals . Who were scandalized when Pannella, with a taste of the imprudent gesture, however, was part of his existential and cultural background, promoted the entry of porn star Cicciolina in ingessatissime and respectable halls of Parliament. And that did not understand the Pannella who refused to adapt to the executioner fury that was accompanying the Manipulite storm, when the radical leader defiantly took under his protection the “Parliament of the indicted” and approached the Bettino Craxi, his old companion of battles university, which in those years was experiencing the shame of being lynched or abandonment of those who had been illuminated by reflected light at the time of the triumphs of the Carnation Craxi.
the Pannella in the political battle that had put all of himself, beginning with the body constantly traumatized by hunger strikes, may be remembered as the champion of civil rights and the guarantor in Italy in which you would want cradle of the law but instead the rule of law has wanted to dig the grave. A leader anchored the left but that he never omitted the limitations and narrowness of the historical majority left. Who entertained stormy relations with his own comrades, starting with Emma Bonino at his side for decades, to be accused of being an accustomed Cronus devouring his children, one behind the other. A leader who has staked everything, including personal relationships, even tutt’intera his humanity, his body, his icon, carnal and ascetic together. Outside the established patterns, always
Body continually traumatized by hunger strikes
May 19, 2016 (modified May 19, 2016 | 23: 09)
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