someone was a communist .. 
The question that underlies this article, and 'very simple: what are the communists?
I will not elaborate too much on what the militancy and commitment have meaning in Communist history. The question is not born of nostalgia for times gone by, I kept repeating ad nauseum that we are the party of workers and the resistance is not needed, ask the people, our people, a symbolic vote for the sake of a political class no longer makes sense.
more useful for developing my thesis is to analyze at least roughly the current political situation, and not Italian. How many political scientists now say, we live in a time when democracy is in crisis, a crisis, I would add, because politics has culpably lost its battle for hegemony with the economy. Politics and democracy are in crisis because they have lost their role or their ability to be an instrument of defense and progress for who he was and is still exploited and oppressed by capital.
At this defeat the political classes have helped because they are not been able to object to the purely economic vision of society that led to the privatization of basic goods such as water, food, energy, culture (including in this area all that expands the knowledge of self and the world, from communications to education) , Health and contraction of the welfare state. The right to such common property as a guarantee of social freedom and at the same time stimulating the political struggle to extend this more and more freedom. The political classes, surrendering the offensive liberal cultural policy have so emptied of this significance, make the government a mere management of public affairs and always aiming at a more neutral view free economy. The right and left are no different than the majority even to a greater or lesser approval of this scheme, but they tend to propose, simply, better and more credible as managers of a system that anyway (this is passed as commonplace in the minds of citizens now considered mostly user / consumer) has its immutable rules of politics. As Berlusconi was able to say recently, "in this society who can not understand or do you buy is a subversive" (I quote from memory) and this is our Mr. B. no different from most European and world politics, although they are more modest in their claims.
The role of left-wing alternative in recent years has always been defensive, rather than advancing, the social achievements of previous decades, but has always had a quasi-emergency, and has always seen their battles disowned and de-legitimized because in an effort to build the necessary consensus to govern, lost local roots and minds of people, basically lost its cultural hegemony, and the competition and the internal bickering have not done anything but make it even more explicit in the eyes citizens that nothing and nobody, not even the Communists, can be immune from the liberal-capitalist dogma of competition and struggle to climb Social selfish.
And here I return to the main question: what are the communists now? They have an obligation to rebuild sociability, mutual aid, aggregation, spaces of freedom for those people who barely know it by now the idea. The constant competition, job insecurity, the feeling induced by television to live in a constant emergency can not be fought only with words, but must be countered with the facts: that is, creating places where the physical and cultural heritage community and people find dignity and stability. Where the achievement of both a social and not the result of individual struggles with no holds barred, where the legality and honesty have a concrete meaning and are not concepts of political marketing.
In practice this means opening offices, "homes of the people" take back the spaces of streets and squares to make new proletarian life less hard on mutual assistance and all our knowledge and our possibilities. To assist and help us understand the contradictions of this system in everyday life. Well back to doing what the Communists have always been better, not only cutting edge of a revolution until a later date, but especially today creators of that revolution is real and concrete that the rejection of violence and the logic prevaricatoria individualistic and selfish that dominates in our society. The only way to recreate that real movement that reduces the present state of things.
