Abstract

The author, through a rapid reconstruction of salient moments of the political experience of Trentin (the Resistance, Action's Party, Communist Party) and of some passages taken from his writings, including the Diaries, reconstructs the idea of socialism to which Trentin arrives, underlining its radical distance from the statist one of historical communism. To this vision Ariemma contrasts the libertarian conception of Trentin, not founded on a model of accomplished society, but understood as an uninterrupted search for the liberation of the person and his capacity for self-realization, which must begin in the work.