The Party as School and the Schools of Party: The Partito comunista italiano 1947-1956

• Autores: Sandro Bellassai
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 35, Nº. 1, 1999, págs. 87-107
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the specific context of post-war Italy, the PCI's organisational strategy had two fundamental objectives: to root itself deeply in �civil society� and to shape a huge army of hundreds of thousands of trustworthy cadres. Beyond the obvious influences from Marxism-Leninism, the political situation as a whole pushed the party to affirm and control a moral order, a strong identity and a system of values. And while the party's normative denotations covered every slightest aspect of the Communist's life, the �political work� in itself was considered explicitly pedagogic. In this brief analysis of the PCI's educational methods, the specific relationship between the Militant and the Party will be emphasised as a general cultural frame within which the schools� activity may be seen. And even though women �s political participation was greatly encouraged, both organisational and educational patterns revealed a global approach which was modeled on a masculine template, and in actual fact reinforced male supremacy in politics