Dear Editor,
Ostellino editorial in yesterday's returns on an issue unresolved: the difficult relationship between socialists and ex-comunisti.Vorrei resume considerations sviluppate.Le there first, love, concern the case of Turkish. It 'was written that the alleged bribes were needed to buy the passage of eight senators in the ranks of the SDI PD. Impossible. Senators were not socialists. If there were were not feasible would be a novel because the socialists are not for sale. There is a second reason for bitterness. E 'at least strange that when it comes to electing representatives left the PD present with pride his women and his men, but when the same fall from grace - I hope for Del Turkish temporary - are suddenly ex-socialist, or former Christian Democrats ex anything else. But we come to the political problem of "loneliness of the Socialists." A party may feel only 1%, but not when it is in the company of good ideas. Ideas similar to those that marked the rebirth of the British Labour Party and the Socialists in Spain. Ideas that appeal to individualism solidarity who are not resigned to confuse the market with the hedonism and selfishness that believe strongly in the function of politics. Ideas that appeal to merit and talent, the inclusion of a peaceful security for citizens. It was precisely the modernity of these ideas, move forward boldly from the socialist to scare some left. Ideas as uncomfortable with the power, not just the pessimism of reason. Tangentopoli has been groped for an easy shortcut to dismiss this thought, but without success. You can destroy a political opponent, in fact, but you can not divert the course of history. E 'from there what part Ostellino calls "anti-socialist deaf continuity. Which allows the post-communist to escape from a cultural choice, politics, and why not, election. "This avoidance is the main explanation of the difficulties of the Italian left, which has tried to compensate by binding first to the radical left and now the unspeakable (strict sense!) Di Pietro but again, excluding the only possible landing place. It can also happen to the fate of winning an election - docet 2006 - but still remains without a political-cultural system to govern. I remember when the Socialists had double-digit percentages in the election center has shown strength and the real possibility of becoming majority in Italy. We are here on a cultural and political frontier consistently guarded by more than forty years. And the reformists, sooner or later, will be knocking.
Riccardo Nencini, national secretary of the Socialist Party
