This work has a double aim: on one hand it gathers and
quotes a selection of 250 texts by Camillo Berneri, on the other hand it
underlines the huge production of the anarchist from
No libertarian went so far beyond the visible and
invisible schemes of anarchism.
There are no other samples of such a pragmatic
political tension even though autocritical and desecrating; Berneri’s life
represents a great contribution to anarchism.
This work of mine means to contribute to the break of
the doctrinal canons of anarchism.
Anyway I have tried not to betray Berneri’s
reflections by quoting his idea through his own words; I have followed the fil rouge which led Berneri during his
life ,bending anarchism to politics.
1989 , almost 20 years ago, the fall of
The works of such an intellectual have a universal
value not only for anarchism but also for people whom believe in the renewal of
the Left; a renewal that must be substancial and not superficial otherwise the emancipation movement would disappear
from political scene.
The strength of Berneri’s thought lies in the request
of a direct democracy, of a federalist decentralization , as Berneri himself
says :”from being ruled to rule oneself”.
There is a
strong refusal of the autonomy of politics : the end does not justify the
means, on the contrary they condition the results of politics.
A society , used to control, will no rech
self-management and the Marxist left-wing ,conditioned by a “Socialist
Machiavelli”, ignores this truth.