The Bolognese philosopher comments exclusively on the weekly Oggi on the newsstands on the results of the elections: “representation stops at the vote: you vote for me, I make the rules and laws for you. But citizens are neither asked nor allowed to participate in the political and social life of the country. After the vote, each of us disappears until the next election.'

The Bolognese philosopher Stefano Bonaga comments on Today, in the issue on newsstands starting tomorrow , the new course taken by Italy and the crisis of the Left: «I wonder what could happen to a country that is experiencing its worst moment since the post-war period. Indeed, today we are worse off than in the post-war period because we were poor then, but there was a people who had the opportunity to participate in the reconstruction. There were parishes, party sections, the so-called intermediate bodies. And Italy recovered. At one point it was thought that it could be done without it. And many of today's troubles come from there: the man or woman alone in charge; the leader and the people and nothing in between; the fake democracy of social networks».

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«Today representation stops at the vote: you vote for me, I make the rules and laws for you. But citizens are neither asked nor allowed to participate in the political and social life of the country. After the vote, each of us disappears until the next election. And this is a typically right-wing culture. Bonaga, who professes to be a communist ('For me it is that famous phrase of Marx: give to each according to his need and ask from each according to his ability') and radical chic ('I am proud of it. It means that I have roots and that I'm elegant. The opposite is superficial-rude'), defines the Democratic Party as 'a party of taxi drivers without taxis. I say this with desperation and affection towards a party that I have always voted for».

The full interview is on the number of Today weekly on newsstands from 29 September

Source: oggi.it