The story of this militant life, which stretches from the post-war period to the current day,
is not just the existential journey of one of Italy’s most important anarchists, but a highly unusual story of dissent in Italy.
From the post-war first political kidnapping of a Francisco Franco’s diplomat and the effective counter-information during the bloody time of the fascist bombs (supported by some seditious sections of the Italian State), up to the patient construction of that composite mosaic that is the anti-authoritarian culture, this biographical interview transcends the singularity of who it recounts to become a collective story. Far from official accounts, this “grassroots” story follows an existential course always against the current, one made of encounters and confrontations, of joyous libertarian creativity and resistance to “the world as is.”
Full of irony and self-criticism, free of rhetoric and self-justification, this choral story appreciates with passion and disenchantment the rushed advances and dead-ends that have characterized Italian dissent over the last six decades. The narrator, clearly aware of having “lost,” of having failed to bring about his utopia, nonetheless succeeded in living an intense and coherent life that was capable of creating– as the editorial project elèuthera shows – as much anarchy is possible to realize in the here and now.
Contributions by:
Nico Berti, Francesco Codello, Eduardo Colombo, Rossella Di Leo, Elis Fraccaro, Mimmo Pucciarelli.
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