Abstract

uninterrupted collaboration with Giacomo Brodolini, and therefore contributed to the most significant series of socialist reforms in our history. One of the main features of that period of reforms is to be found in the profile of the socialist experts involved: they were not mere ideologists, but experts in legal, economic, and social science, who, however, were not technocrats. In other words, they provided the Socialist Party with advanced scientific knowledge for the purposes of socialism, and not to subject democracy to technics. This is the difference between the fully accomplished democracy of that time, on the one hand, and today’s technocracy, on the other. Bartocci, as explained in the present contribution, testifies to this by describing how the group of people who worked in close cooperation with Brodolini conceived the action of public authorities, and how they contributed to the pension reform of 1969.