August 2024, Year XVI, n. 8
Mario Baccini
Centre of Permanent Gravity
Telos: You started your political career with Christian Democracy and then you spearheaded the transformation of the Italian political system into a two-party system. What place and role have the former Christian Democrats had in the Second Republic? Do you think the legacy of Christian Democracy is still one to be reclaimed?
Mario Baccini: Actually, my political career began in the youth sections of the ACLI (Association of Italian Christian Workers) and then the UDC (Union of Christian Democrats). I would say that during the First Republic (1948-1994) the era of Christian Democracy marked an evolution that, by supporting, from Prime Minister De Gasperi on, the social doctrine of the Church as the basis for plans to create a State that focussed on people and their needs, contributed to the economic miracle of the fifties, which in the eighties led to Italy becoming one of the seven great global economic powers with a growing economy ...more
Editorial
Our guest for the August issue of PRIMOPIANOSCALAc is Mario Baccini, a longtime politician and administrator, who we cannot help but feel grateful to for reminding us and our readers that politics as a profession is mainly thought, an identity, a depository of culture and experience that politicians then transform into vision and future plans.
His considerations are old-fashioned, but that is exactly why we need them. Now more than ever people try to deny that the spaces and conditions are ripe for political replication, and the main deniers –first with their words and then with their actions – are indeed the latest generation of political leaders: lone men and women searching for easy jabs and incendiary comments, grandiose gestures that rile up public opinion, dividing the world into good and bad, friends and foes
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