"The parties are no longer policy. The parties have degenerated and that is the source of the ills of Italy. Their organizational structure is now aligned on this model, and are not more organizers of the people who promote the formation and maturation civil initiative federations are quite current, cliques, each with a "boss" and "sub-boss." The geopolitical map of the parties is made up of names and places. " For example, today there is a danger that the major Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, fall into the hands of this or that party or its current, but we prevent a great newspaper like the Courier makes such a bad end. Everything has already been divided up and score or you would like to carve up and share. And the result is dramatic. All of the "operations" that the various institutions and their current leaders are called upon to perform are seen mainly in the interests of the party or the current or clan was responsible for the charge. We want the parties cease to occupy the state. The parties must, as we stated in our Constitution, in the formation of the political will of the nation, and what they can do it does not take increasingly large parts of the state, more and more centers of power in every field, but interpreting the great currents of opinion, organizing the aspirations of the people, democratically controlling the operation of institutions. Here's the first reason for our diversity. We believe that the privilege should be fought and destroyed wherever they nest, the poor and the marginalized, the disadvantaged, should be defended, and should be given a voice and real chance of counting in the decisions and change their own conditions, that certain social needs and humans today should be ignored met in priority to others, that the professionalism and merit should be rewarded, that the participation of every citizen and every citizen to What the public should be ensured. " Enrico Berlinguer, 29 July 1981
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