The first paragraph argues that the Resistance, understood as a collective laboratory of emancipation, was the core of the constituent power that gave rise to Italian democracy. The parties of the CLN, however, derived their legitimacy from the armed struggle against the Nazi-Fascists, thanks to the relationship they established with the partisan bands and their demands for grassroots sovereignty. As stated in the second paragraph, it is therefore from the time of the partisan war that the idea stems that the Republican Constitution is first and foremost a project for the liberation of citizens in the name of formal and substantive equality. Hence the importance of the Constitution’s social articles. Today they are being called into question, as argued in the third paragraph, but they contain the unfulfilled program of a new democracy.
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Chapter Title
La Resistenza come laboratorio collettivo dell’emancipazione
Authors
Alessandro Simoncini
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-99811-32-7.04
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Publication Year
2026
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Book Title
Reinventare l’Italia
Book Subtitle
La cultura italiana tra Resistenza e Ricostruzione (1943-1948)
Editors
Alessandro Simoncini
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Number of Pages
144
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press, Perugia Stranieri University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-99811-32-7
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978-88-99811-30-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-99811-32-7
eISBN (epub)
978-88-99811-34-1
Series Title
Studi di storia e critica delle idee