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He died at 96 Lydia menapace. For several days she was hospitalized for Covid in the infectious diseases department of the hospital. Bolzano. The former senator died at 3.10, according to the Ansa agency. Italy loses one of their own today partisan fighters. A voice comes out always free, a point of reference to fight for women, for the rights of all and of all, for peace. “Fight” and categorically never “war”, a word that shuns in all its implications. Today we are left with a lover of politics made of actions (and gestures) and never of shouted words. Until the last thirst for participation, because it is in comparison that ideas are born. He said: “The fight is still long” because “what we have achieved is still recent and difficult to endure.” And for this reason too, its absence will be felt even more as the country tries to imagine a future outside of the pandemic. Here, perhaps this Italy lacks more than anything the imagination of Lydia menapace: she who the encyclopedia of women of Monica lanfranco me Rosangela Pesenti define “The anticipatorAnd that has always been at the forefront when it comes to imagining the new. Because it was in his interventions, 60 years ago like today, that suddenly other paths, other worlds, other solutions became possible.
Menapace is the husband’s last name Baby, a doctor from Trentino with whom he shared his life. Lidia Brusca was born in Novara in 1924 and when he was very young he became a partisan relief (nom de guerre Bruna) in the formation of Ossola Valley. Even if I never wanted to touch weapons, he wanted to say. “Although I have always refused to bear arms, finally they ‘discharged’ me with the” guerrilla “patent (obviously in the masculine one) and with the rank of second lieutenant became furiously antimilitarist“, He counted in a contribution published by Women’s Free University. He spoke of his partisan history until April 25 last, in the last interview with Gad Lerner: “I reject the idea that women can only be relay races because the struggle for liberation is a complex struggle.” And “the Piedmont CNL told me that I could be a guerrilla even without carrying weapons.” They said of us that “we were the women, the girls, the whores of the partisans.” But “without the women sheltering the fleeing Italian army, there would have been no resistance“And also because of that, despite the fact that Togliatti asked women not to participate in the Liberation Parade in Milan” because people would not understand “, she Lydia menapace did that show anyway. “I was partisan all my life, because doing it is a life choice“A clear history that disarmed in its indisputable being. At the time of the referendum on the Constitution, the Renzianos tried to make distinctions between the” true supporters “who voted in favor against the others who fought in defense of the Charter. Lidia Menapace, interviewed on Di Martedì, she laughed at it: “You have to go over history a bit.” There wasn’t much more to say.
Lydia menapace He graduated at the age of 21 in 1945 with the highest grade in Italian literature. As the Encyclopedia of Women recalls, on the occasion of a meeting in Genoa in 2011 she said that on the day of her graduation a professor praised her saying that her work was “Fruit of a truly virile genius”. Of course she did not let it pass, but in her response she was labeled “hysterical”. He has never forgotten that phrase and it was, in his own way, the beginning of many battles. After the war, Lidia Menapace became involved with the Fuci – Federation of Catholic Universities of Italy and in 1964 she was the first woman elected in Bolzano Provincial Council with the Christian Democrats along with Waltraud Deeg. In that same legislature, she was also the first woman to join the provincial council, as an effective counselor for social affairs and health. In 1968, however, he left the Christian Democrats and after professing himself a Marxist lost any opportunity to make a career inCatholic University (where he taught). In 1969 he was one of the founders of the first nucleus of “The poster” for which she wrote until the 1980s. In 1973 she was one of the promoters of the Christian movement for socialism. From 2006 to 2008 she was a senator of Communist re-foundation. He should have become president of the defense commission, but lost his position because of his statements against Frecce tricolori: “Only in Italy are they paid for with public funds,” he said in Trieste.. It was enough to go instead Sergio Di Gregorio Dell ‘Italy of securities. His commitment in Parliament ends, but he does not stop political activity for it. In 2011 he entered the Anpi National Committee. In 2013 a signature collection was launched for her to be nominated senator for life. Among the promoters Monica lanfranco who wrote: “It is probably the best testimony of how the country as a whole, and the left in particular, does not know how to exploit its talents.” Senator for Life Lidia Menapace will never be. But his commitment in the front row continues: from the campaign for the no to the Renzi referendum to the candidacy with Power to the people in 2018.
Lidia Menapace was a feminist, in many cases the first to raise questions that would later become crucial. “In formally democratic countries, a gender can no longer be excluded from certain rights. But we must be careful. Better to go into equal fights. Start protesting immediately if girls have less access to education or if women are asked to stay home to take care of the family, “she told ilfattoquotidiano.it in 2013. But in her struggle there was a conscience that It came from Far: “My mother learned an ethical code for her two daughters”, she recounted in 2016 in the documentary “You cannot live without a lilac jacket”. “Be financially independent and then do what you want. The important thing is that you are independent for the socks. You cannot be independent in your head and not in your feet ”. Economic freedom as an essential starting point for the emancipation of women: even today feminist battles start from that simple and fragile assumption. But not only. It was the first Lydia menapace, always writes the encyclopedia of women, to “emphasize the importance of sexual language as a fundamental tool against sexism“Anticipating, once again, battles that are as relevant today as ever. In 1993 he wrote in the preface to” Words for Young Women “:” If it is so little, I said, why not do it? It is not done because the name is power, existence, possibility of becoming memorable, worthy of memory, worthy of entering history as women, not as habitability, transmitters of life to others at the cost of obscuring their own ”. The answer for all who still today they insist on not becoming feminine mayor, lawyer and minister.
One of the most beautiful definitions of the feminist movement is due to her: she called it “Karst”, like a river that “sinks” and resurfaces in seemingly distant times and places. Lydia menapace he believed in the power of encounters, of “speaking in person”, exchanging gestures and expressions. Communicate by looking at the face and understand by going to see. Her tours of Italy, her momentum continues to travel to the end to go where she was invited. Because the imagination to have an exit needs sensations and emotions collected in the first person. To find his writings you have to look for traces between articles (Tide, Liberation, Land of women) and books (from “Political economy of sexual difference” to Resisté, The finger and the moon). Lydia menapace he believed in politics, but above all he believed in the politics of peace. “Together with others, I have created a permanent Convention of Women Against Wars that has a theoretical structure called Rosa Luxemburg Association, always explained in his speech for the women’s university, “we want to build a political culture that excludes war as a tool to manage conflict. Rosa with her writings and her life provides us with traces of thought and action practices of great breadth and relevance, also for a revolutionary hypothesis, not Leninist-militarist, but social and almost stateless. And also a lot of economic analysis tips. Rosa was Jewish, as we know, and when she fled her native Poland, which was under the tsars, she was preceded by her colleagues from the Polish Socialist Party to go to Germany with a letter to her colleagues from the German Social Democratic Party saying: “Rosa Luxemburg about you, don’t be seduced by that Polish Jewish girl”: pretty, right? “.
But of the many things Menapace wrote, perhaps especially today, his friend’s words are worth remembering. Alexander Langer published in the July 1995 Manifesto: “What does Alex Langer want to tell me by his death so ‘ostentatiously’ celebrated? I couldn’t bear the waste of his gesture. And then I return to trace some memories of an intense, affectionate, warm, although occasional friendship, often composed only of meetings in train stations to reach meetings, debates ”, is his attack. And he continues: “Can a bitter political loneliness be endured for a long time in vulgar, foolish, vain and very dangerous moments? While mediocre biographies of mostly bad characters take up newspaper columns and columns? Rumors and intrigues develop around any matter, is everything gray and boring? And does the instrument of political debate become the pot that measures the flow of urine? ”. Then close: “The dangers are there and they are real. What does it take, finally, to pierce the fog of our brain, the butter of our conscience? “.
Not a week ago we had to say goodbye to the partisan Ibes Pioli, partisan and also one of the first to fight for women’s rights in Italy. Today we say goodbye to Lydia menapace. And as the head of state said Sergio Mattarella, which a few months ago spoke of the pain of the elderly as a point of reference that have been decimated by Covid, the absences are increasingly heavy.
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