Today we live in a fragile democracy, undermined by the anti-political despotism of the markets, which is exercised outside of all public control. Indeed, it determines political choices by swallowing governments, parties and trade unions.

In this weakened democracy, which conserves and exhibits its forms but loses its heart and its goal, citizen associations are multiplying all over the world. Italy, despite the crisis of representation, sees the flourishing of thousands of associations, in particular on delicate fronts and in danger as the school, the environment, the cultural heritage

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