Pisapia's experience in Milan should be a lesson for all those that point to change. Pisapia is, in addition to the failure of extremism centrist (the oxymoron is intentional), including the need for grassroots participation. The primary at this point, to give legitimacy to the actual candidate. Non-taxation, complete freedom of choice. The construction of a democracy can not ignore the choice of the candidate placed in the hands of the voter. The policy can not be conceived as a market where you purchased the final product in the political dynamics are different: I want to choose who to represent me, I want to choose who is my trusted person. In Milan, the choice was given, and the center-left electorate has spoken, and the result is clear: Pisapia, supported Left on Environment and Freedom and the Federation of the Left, reaches 30,533 votes and won the leadership, following the Boers of the PD with 27,055 preferences. Milan chose to turn left then. After the victory of Vendola in Puglia in 2005, and reconfirmed in 2010, also left Milan after page. These experiences require a thought that goes beyond the actual outcome of the primaries: This type of success are not random, they are not miracles, but are the result of years of work. Not a seed becomes a tree if watered and cared for: the left Milan could never win if you do not have years of experience in the area, trying to know what were the social problems of the people who inhabit the city. Pisapia is not a messiah, but the man is simply an emblem of the dynamics of the left Milanese like the logo of a different policy, that policy that speaks the same language as the square, which is able to enter into a yard without fear of dirty tie, which is clear and pure.
Maybe just after Genoa in 2001, apart from the extraordinary victories Vendola in Puglia, the left has never found that identity that has characterized and that made it different: for nearly a decade has been instrumental in victory a fragile majority. Hard to believe that, in a context where no one aims to be a grain of gear, the left could be the representation of that "Fourth estate" in Pisapia has explicitly acknowledged that it will be.
grassroots participation, identity and self-criticism can no longer irrespective of the methods of approach to people. How would say the brothers and sisters from the far Zapatista Caracoles in Chiapas, we must "walk by asking." In Milan as elsewhere in Italy, ask yourself the question of what is being done to not fall into the trap of certainty. Starting again from the squares to make noise. Happy Birthday Milan.
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