The PCI was founded as the Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci.
Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played a major role in the Italian resistance movement the most famous being the Brigate Garibaldi with over 500 brigates during WW2, at the end of the War when Benito Mussolini was escaping to swizerland he was captured and recognized by Communist Partisans and Executed
In the 1970s the PCI reached its all-time maximum electorally: 34.4% in the 1976 general election (12,600,000 votes, 3 million more than in the previous election in 1972). Membership also saw a similarly sharp increase, with over 1,800,000 in the same year (300,000 more than in 1970). becoming the Biggest Communist party in the Imperial core
Sadly due to Fascist violent, State oppresion and CIA intervention (operation gladio) that culminated in the Years of Lead the PCI was not able to mantain itself.
Achille Occhetto became general secretary of the PCI in 1988. At a 1989 conference in a working-class section of Bologna, Occhetto stunned the party faithful with a speech heralding the end of Communism, a move now referred to in Italian politics as the svolta della Bolognina (Bolognina turning point) Under his leadership, the PCI dissolved and refounded itself as the Democratic Party of the Left, which branded itself as a progressive left-wing and democratic socialist party.
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Absolutely! The best single history of the PCI (the Italian Communist Party) is Magri’s The Tailor of Ulm .. For the origins of the Italian Communist experience during and after WWII check out Pavone’s epic A Civil War , which is fantastically written by a former member of the Resistance. For a more on the ground look at how the PCI functioned, check out Rossanda’s The Comrade From Milan (a memoir) or Morselli’s The Communist (fiction). For a deeper look into Italian Autonomist Marxism, a philosophical strain of Marxism pioneered in the PCI, check out Wright’s Storming Heaven (which is a history of the movement) and Tronti’s Workers and Capital (its chief theoretical text). There’s plenty else to check out, including works by Gramsci and Bordiga, but I haven’t personally read them so can’t recommend. That said, I’m sure they’re good!
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People literally think Science is somehow going to sweep in and save us from Climate Change, but after 14,000 years of human civilization science has failed to deliver either a dick embiggening pill or a make you skinny pill.
Science can't make your cock big. Science can't make you skinny. But somehow Science is going to sequester a few gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere at some undetermined point in the future.
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its not a science problem, its a thermodynamics/entropy problem. we functionally have to "unburn" all of the fossil fuels, all trillions of tons of it, that powered the industrial revolution and currently powers the modern economy. we have to collect all the smoke of a camp fire and turn it back into wood. even if we aren't "unburning" it, and just collecting it as a gas and then storing it, we are still talking about an energy intensive process (not to mention the actual problems of basically storing an atmosphere of gas, but whatever). so we are going to need energy to undo the energy use from before. so whatever fancy carbon technology we come up with, it needs to be powered, which means solar, wind, nuclear, etc on a massive enough scale to power our current society plus enough extra to "unburn" the industrial revolution, all in the next decade or so.
the real solution we need is communism. we need a two day work week, to ban cars, build trains, and eat mostly plant diets. we need to degrowth the consumer/energy economy. we need to end capitalism.
Capitalist innovation will save checks notes billionaires and their chosen Mars colony proletarians
We can definitely solve climate change. The problem is that "we" only means about 2 billion or so in wealthy nations. The Global South? Sorry kid, try being born in a better place.
Bro we can easily convince every major corporation to invest in green energy and fully phase out fossil fuels in only 9 years, trust me
Most people won't fully grasp what's happening until it's way, way, way too late.
It's kind of like you notice that an outlet in your kitchen is making weird electrical noises when you plug things in. This is where a reasonable person would take action. We have continued to ignore it as it sparked, the wall above it looked a bit charred, and you could smell smoke. Now we are at the point where the kitchen is a straight up inferno and all we are getting from the ruling class is "hmmm maybe we should replace that outlet, also let's install some air purifiers for the smoke."