![]() ![]() Finally, after overcoming mutual mistrust, there comes a reconciliatory phase, a «relationship between individuals» based on principles of equality and independence: «the reciprocal promise is to continue seeing each other as good friends and maybe occasional lovers». This phase is, however, destined to failure and causes a definitive rupture, a «separation by fault», with negative consequences for both partners. The second phase is labelled as the «open relationship» phase, during which the libertarian section casts aside its subordinate role and begins to search for new partners. Her analogy with a couple relationship identifies four historical phases, beginning with the «patriarchal relationship» during which the dominant anarchist movement fails to accept the autonomy of the libertarian area and simply sees it as a recruitment pool for its militants. In order to further understand the relationship between the specific context of anarchism and the much wider one of libertarian culture, it may be useful to refer to the bold analogy formulated by Rossella Di Leo, one of the founding members and current responsible for the Centre. Thus, not so much questioning its deepest essence, its nucleus of innermost values but, rather, renewing it with an increasingly open, although still critical, attitude towards all genuinely libertarian manifestations, emerging and developing in the stimulating contemporary scenario of the previous few decades, including social conflicts, the finest intellectual thinking, and a new view of everyday affairs. In other words, it was necessary to rethink anarchism in the light of the current social context, freeing it from over-contemplation of its own roots to make it a valid and alternative reference point to mainstream culture. In turn, this association had been financed by the estate of an elderly libertarian militant and given a very specific mission: «to give anarchy back the cultural dignity it once deservedly held and that we still believe it deserves today, given that it constitutes the most complete and coherent theory and practice of human liberation». The Centre came into being with the patronage of the Arcangelo and Bartolina Carocari Cultural Association. ![]() This new institute, with its headquarters in Milan, had two objectives: firstly, the creation of a historical archive that would conserve the memory of anarchism and, secondly, the development of a libertarian culture able to address the problems of modern society and engage with the most advanced thinking and practices of anti-authoritarianism. The members of the organizing committee, who for the most part adhered to the Bandiera Nera group from Milan and to the Nestor Machno group based in Venice, decided to «transform the occasional into the structural», thus giving solidity and continuity to a deep ferment of libertarian cultural promotion. The idea of setting up a research centre named after the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli emerged during the preparation phase of a conference on Bakunin held in Venice in 1976. A history of the Centre for Libertarian Studies – Giuseppe Pinelli Archive (1976-2009)īy Luigi Balsamini, 2009 translation by John Bernard Wilson, 2021 ![]()
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