Massimo Fagioli’s meeting/debate with the politics and culture of the left wing waslong and complex starting from the resistance and the help given to the partisans when he was a teenager. It evolved between the ‘80s and ‘90s to reach, between the years 2006 and 2017, the well-established collaboration with the weekly magazine LEFT. Over a period of forty years, the idea/need to radically refound a new left wing thinking based on the Human Birth Theory has repeatedly emerged as well as in thehistory of the “collective analysis”.
The group IDEAS FOR A NEW LEFT WING, born within the Laboratory “Politics,Culture, Science and Society”, stimulated by the challenges imposed by the current events (on several occasions), intends to face the cultural and political foundation of the left wing building on the thought of Massimo Fagioli and taking as guidelines, for an initial research, the four words: “Freedom, Equality Fraternity and Transformation” of the acronym Left.
The left wing has suffered for decades from an irreversible crisis because it is incapable of elaborating new and original ideas that lacked in Marxist humanism and its epigones. New ideas on human reality, freedom, equality, history, alienation, beyond the basic needs for survival, the high road to recreate a thought on the leftwing that recovers that irrational thought in which lies the identity of man, his freedom, his equality, his sociality, his fantasy, his origin. With these premises, it will bring to the attention of the Conference a historical/theoretical research of the four words to highlight the problems that have prevented the idea of a full human emancipation within the left wing, from the Enlightenment to our days.
Equality
Equality is commonly understood as something material, not original/native that man must conquer. Equality before the law, equality in rights, equality of results, equality of opportunities are affirmations which collide with an exponential increase in inequalities in the social, economic and human spheres (gender inequalities, racism, poverty, uncertain protection of acquired rights). The Human Birth Theory, on the contrary, considers equality not being exclusively material but human, original/native originated by a “thought through images” that emerges from biology at birth, an essential human characteristic and the unavoidable foundation of human identity.
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