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The real revolution of Togliatti

E 'dead Massimo Caprara, secretary of the Best and co-founder of the Manifesto

PINE Suriano

E 'dead at 87 years, Massimo Caprara. Personal secretary Palmiro Togliatti and co-founder of the Manifesto, had dedicated to soul and body affair rmation of the communist cause. In the last years of his life came to disavow ideology.

"My way of no longer being is not to become anti-Communist - had this to say - but listen and think." That is, stop applying an idea about the reality (the anti-communism, in fon do, is another idea) and start looking for what is, what causes the human heart.

These words have always struck me. Why this is, after all, the only true honesty intellectual who is required to each of us in the face of this great mystery that is our "being" and our action as men. Look and think, that is, to judge what is happening before our eyes: this was perhaps the most bell'insegnamento of its human and intellectual adventure.

In this "observation without prejudice" he happened to meet in the late '90s, Christianity. Her path was a fervent and gradual, but eventually said yes.

was not only the emotional charge of the Gospel story to hit and convert it, or only the wit of many Catholic intellectuals with which it was compared. But encounters with boys in their early twenties, already changed by Christianity. He, his right arm in Togliatti, a great intellectual and a contributor to the Manifesto and the Journal of Indro Montanelli, changed from the happy faces of three universities in Milan? Exactly! In an afternoon of winter, after one of the many meetings in his apartment in Milan, at the time greeting burst into tears and said, "Thanks, you are my columns." The man who shook his hand and Stalin, felt that they should be based on the life and look simple on the friendship of three boys.

I was lucky enough to live to hear him tell his story, his "old" and "new" life, Rimini Meeting 2002: "Now I feel truly revolutionary - he said at the end of 'speech - now no longer are truly revolutionary communist. "

Eugenio Corti, great writer and his close friend, said as his "discovery" (he liked to use this term to describe his new adventure of life) in a recent interview with The Sussidiario.net: "He discovered this something simple yet profound finding himself in poverty. That is, no longer considers the rich distributor of a doctrine that shall be given to the poor, but as he really shares his poverty and human needs. This is the real revolution. " Becoming a Christian does not discover a newer and better idea about the world and its problems, but on himself. "Rediscovering man" is the title he chose, not coincidentally, for his wonderful autobiography. He understood that no revolution, if not change the man within, is really a revolution. He struggled to change the world, discovered the need to change themselves!