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Federal Cattaneo deformation Lega

Carlo Cattaneo, the protagonist of "Five Days of Milan", gave his political support in the Italian Renaissance with an unconventional theory, which defies any simplistic attempt to classify (Which, for a long time, was considered a defect).
Republican was in a crowd of monarchists, democratic and radical absolutist and authoritarian era, among the multitude of federal centralist, European and cosmopolitan as the sacred word was nationalism, secular, defender of science and progress, popularizer of the ' economics and sociology in an Italy imbued with spiritualism and humanism literary and unrelated to the technical-scientific culture of the most advanced European countries.
"The nation is one of the men students. It 's the nation of intelligence, who lives all climates and speaks all languages. Beneath it is a multitude divided into a thousand conflicting homelands, in caste, in slang, in factions arid and bloody. The intelligence moves beyond this ocean, it spreads throughout the books, museums, schools, scholars associations. "" The is our duty to give the little strength to our common humanity that enterprise. We have to participate in this war between progress and inertia, between thought and ignorance, between kindness and barbarism, between emancipation and slavery. "

For nearly two centuries, the figure was Cattaneo almost totally ignored today his name is back in vogue because of the claim of the Northern League to make a sort of secessionist tutor of their wills.

But to what extent it is legitimate to equate this concept League thinker, now universally considered one of the sharpest thinkers of the nineteenth century?

Cattaneo is now considered the father of Italian Federalism: disputed the existence of the various Italian states, rejected the idea of \u200b\u200ba federation between them and did not share the political geography eg. proposed by Ferrari. His proposed "federation" was a pact between the towns that considered in a central Italian tradition of freedom and into a prerequisite for removal of existing states and create "national unity". So

federalism was the ideal instrument for achieving the real goal which was aimed Cattaneo, that of a nation united in respect for the traditions and local cultures, which was supposed to represent the natural synthesis. Cattaneo is against centralism, not against national unity (which he considered rather basic requirement) Norberto Bobbio, writes that federalism Cattaneo "ended up being presented in order to recall the doctrine (already own the Mazzini) of the municipality and the nation as the two terms of the Italian state Republican and Democratic unity. " In both (Mazzini and Cattaneo) was a clear will to achieve national unity. Especially since almost Cattaneo repudiated the term "federalism" calling it "defective word meaning discord of what is united and non-union of what is disunited" preferendolgi and those of "federal union" or "union free", because he wanted to unite what was divided, and not the opposite.

This commonality of thought between the two, Giuseppe Montanelli had highlighted the programs in the bottom of the 'unitary' Mazzini and the "federalist" Cattaneo you were like, "If Unitarianism is to undo the States (then) existing ordering Italy on only two terms, cities and nations, as Mazzini Cattaneo is unitary. If federalism is to keep control of the municipal hall for all interests, Mazzini and Cattaneo as federalist. "That said, the question is raised with force Home: what is fair to say that the ideology of the League can be identified with the political-philosophical thought Cattaneo?.
Let's look at the facts: •

Carlo Cattaneo had no secessionist drive, the League raises its basis (between high and low) the Secession;
• Cattaneo was not a regionalist, but it was much closer to the size of the communal tradition (both to arrive to warn his colleagues from the Emilia consider a single reality, but when we lived together three very different systems of legislation and administrative), the League's approach is x regionalism "federal" more or less extended depending on how are the elections .. •
Cattaneo thought that the path of civilization lies in the comparison of different cultures (much to say: "Remember that all of us, the modern nations of Europe, we are children of fathers who were in one day, more or less distant, sons of Barbarians"), the Northern League, ( first of all, Gianfranco Miglio), preach a kind of "ethno-nationalism" of small countries in the name of protecting an alleged purity (and I would say superior) of the ethnic "Padania" (see last Maroni with the rules of ROM or Bossi with the words on the teachers of the South).
• The unity of the nation for Cattaneo was the "primary good" strive for, "We have to stop - he wrote - that Italy should be held above all in unison coll'Europa, and stroking another national feeling than to preserve a noble place in the association of Europe and the scientific world "Bossi's philosophical thought is summed up rather well: ironic reference to the excellent Angela Mancuso. ..

If Bossi is really convinced that this coincides with, or take the form, Cattaneo's thought of yet ... I understand why the rejection of his poor son!