Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea (Dec 2012)
L’esperienza intellettuale e politica del laburismo nel pensiero di Carlo Rosselli
Abstract
Among the influences of Carlo Rosselli’s eclectic political formation, one of the most important was probably the one deriving from the intellectual and political experience of English Fabianism and Labourism. This dual influence is acknowledgeable in the political and economic thinking of Rosselli and in his peculiar vision of the political party. From the Fabian political thought, Rosselli has developed his view on the centrality of the Trade Unions in the economic and industrial organization, and on the role of tradeunionism as an opportunity of “self-management” in industry. The political strategy of the Labour Party, however, seemed to be a confirm of Rosselli’s belief that the rules of democracy and parliamentarism were the only means for the progress of socialism in the society, through the party and the trade unions, which collected the “liberal role” entrusted to the proletariat in that historical moment. In this sense, The Labour Party would have to be an example for Italians democratic socialists and Marxists, stopped in political action by their dogmatism.
