I prodromi del pensiero politico di Emilio Lussu

The article aims to investigate the political thought of Emilio Lussu through three directions: federalism, socialism, freedom. The central idea is that these great theoretical bases accompanied Lussu’s entire political itinerary finding their roots in a political program, the political program of the Sardinian fighters, discussed and approved in the town of Macomer between 8 and 9 August 1920. The Macomer’s program turn out to be, in its federalist claim, a spark capable of reverberating in Lussu’s future thinking. Written by Lionello De Lisi and endorsed by Lussu, in it we find the activism of the fighters of the Brigata Sassari, the only Italian division with entirely regional recruitment. Although theoretically weak and largely utopian, the Macomer program proposed the centrality of autonomies and the dignity of labor, proletarians and peasants, as indispensable points for postwar revival, averting, however, any communist hypothesis. The two parts of the article aim to trace the genesis of the program and its future weight in Emilio Lussu’s political battles.