Democrazia Proletaria
| Democrazia Proletaria | |
| Party executive |
Mario Capanna (1984–1987) (segretario) Giovanni Russo Spena (1987–1991) (segretario) |
| founding | 1975 |
| resolution | June 9, 1991 (published in: Rifondazione Comunista ) |
| ideology | Communism , Trotskyism , pacifism , eco-socialism |
| EP Group | CDI (1979-84) , Rainbow (1984-89) , Greens (1989-94) |
| MPs |
8/630 |
| Senators |
1/315 |
| MEPs |
1/81 |
Democrazia Proletaria (DP, "Proletarian Democracy") was a left-wing socialist party in Italy , formed in 1977 from the merger of various groups of the revolutionary New Left (including Avanguardia Operaia and Lotta Continua ). The DP saw itself as a party with communist goals, based on an undogmatic Marxism and serving as a reservoir for Maoists , Trotskyists , feminists and eco-socialists. Above all, it attracted intellectuals and alternative movements and presented itself in the spectrum of Italian parties at the time as a left alternative to the great communist PCI by distinguishing itself both from its reformist tendency and from the traditional currents that positively related to the “ real socialism ” of the Soviet Union . The membership reached about 15,000 in the 1980s. The theory journal Marx centouno was close to the DP .
In the parliamentary elections in 1976, 1983 and 1987, the DP achieved results of 1.5 percent and, as there was no threshold clause , moved into the House of Representatives with 6-8 deputies . In 1979 she did not stand for the Italian parliamentary election, but for the first direct European election and received a seat in the European Parliament . She was able to defend this in 1984 and 1989. There, MEP Mario Capanna initially joined the Technical Group of Independents . From 1984–89 the MEPs of the DP belonged to the rainbow group of Greens and regional parties, and from 1989 to the first Green group.
In the mid-1980s, there were divergences in the DP between the Marxist-socialist wing and a more green-ecological-oriented tendency, whose members (including the former DP General Secretary Capanna) in 1989 the Verdi Arcobaleno ("Rainbow Greens") and later joined the Federazione dei Verdi .
In 1991 the remaining DP took part in the discussions of the Movimento per la rifondazione comunista (movement for the communist re-establishment) , together with the left opposition movements of the recently dissolved PCI . At the end of 1991, the majority of the DP joined the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC) , a re-establishment that had primarily emerged from the left-wing PCI currents . Today there is only a very small residual group of its own under the name of DP. Influential former DP members in the PRC include Paolo Ferrero (member of the PRC Secretariat responsible for economics), Luigi Vinci (Member of the European Parliament until 2004 ) and the philosophers Domenico Jervolino and Giovanni Russo Spena.
A small minority current of the former DP split off from the PRC in 1997 and founded the Movimento per la confederazione dei comunisti , which advocates explicit anti-Americanism and support for national liberation struggles and which is in sharp contrast to the PRC.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tim Potter: Il Manifesto and Il Partito di Unita Proletaria (PdUP). Left criticism of the Italian Communist Party. In: Jürgen Baumgarten: Left Socialists in Europe. Alternatives to Social Democracy and Communist Parties. Junius, Hamburg 1982, pp. 1–32, on p. 23.
- ↑ Martin Elff: party system, social structure and voting intent. In: Frank Brettschneider u. a .: The end of the politicized social structure? Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2002, pp. 279-313, on p. 289.
- ^ Thomas Poguntke: Party organization in change. Social anchoring and organizational adaptation in a European comparison. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2000, p. 94.