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...Italy is in the grip of a serious crisis, and the labor movement must do everything in its power to solve it," Georgio Napolitano, member of the secretariat of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), told an audience of 250 listeners last night...
Winding up a three-day visit to Harvard. Napolitano stressed the importance of constructive reforms to solve Italy's complex problems. "The goals of socialist democracy remain our ideal," he said, "but we must first deal with the current crisis to prevent a political and social slide backwards...
...supports policies of economic austerity and industrial reorganization in order to stem inflation and unemployment, increase productive investment and reform inefficient public-owned industry. Napolitano said...
However, this does not mean the party seeks total state ownership of the means of production, he added. Instead, the PCI feels that a mixed economy--with coexisting elements of private-owned and state-owned industry--is compatible with democratic socialism. Napolitano said...
...dedicated to the task of resolving the contradictions of capitalist industrial society," Napolitano said. The workers movement does not have to wait for the "collapse of capitalism" to realize its goals, he said...