“You were the first, as a party, when you led Rifondazione Comunista, to have the intuition to nominate the Honorable Member for Parliament Vladimir Luxuria and therefore to raise the issue of LGBTQ+ even before it exploded with the force we see today”: David Porec he told his guest, Fausto Bertinottito The Air that blows on La7. And he replied: “We then tried to connect the demands that arose from the class struggle with those of individual freedoms. We rejected the scheme according to which the workers’ movement would be imprisoned in the social question. There are good social rights and civil rights on which We tried to connect these two elements in the name of an idea of liberation. In my opinion, Schlein is still almost unexceptionable connection with class dynamics”.
“The problem that politics is unable to address – continued Bertinotti – is this capitalism, which after having promised the unification of the world with globalization sees it split into a thousand fault lines and war. This capitalism that produces the greatest concentration of wealth known to the world and the devastation of poverty. And on this point I believe that the European left is in deficit.”
Watch Bertinotti’s speech to L’Aria che tira here
Then speaking about abstentionism in the European elections, he explained: “This extraordinary absence from the vote of half the population is the manifestation of a distance from the people. If there is no connection, that woman, that man who is unable to have a decent job, is unlikely to be able to face the challenge of civil rights.” And again: “I have developed the idea that the choice of voting it’s not a moral question, it’s a political choice, I wouldn’t be surprised if, faced with the impossibility of choosing, someone chooses not to vote. In the non-vote this time there is not only passivity, there is also a critical activity. I’m not going to vote because I don’t want to vote for you.”
