To My Left

“It was my duty to write this book because I have two children in their twenties facing, like all their peers, the most difficult labor market since the Great Depression. I act on my responsibilities because I belong to a certain generation of the Western Left who believed that they could improve society using the market and globalization. I wanted to browse my family album, with a bit of the Italian left, to understand the reasons for our defeat, then open a new page. Plutocracy, technocracy, populism, and authoritarianism are the evils that threaten our democracies. Italy is a small laboratory riddled with these pathogens. Having lived decades as a globalized nomad—in Europe, America, Asia—I have the duty to say what happened to my country’s image. From my observation post in the Far West, I can tell what the costs of the Berlusconi era are. Is there still hope? Drawing on my experiences in emerging countries, from Asia to Brazil, I have concluded that our way out of these problems lies to our left.”

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Author Bio:
Federico Rampini, the US bureau chief of La Repubblica, was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1956, but was raised in Brussels. His father was an executive of the European Commission. Rampini began his career as a journalist in 1977 for the Italian Communist Party press. He has been a correspondent in Paris, Brussels, San Francisco, and Beijing, and has taught at the universities of Berkeley and Shanghai. For thirty years he has been present in major international summits including the Trilateral, the G8 and G20, and the World Economic Forum in Davos. He is the author of numerous essays including “San Francisco-Milan” (Yale University Press, new edition 2011), “The Chinese Century” (Knopf, 2005), “The Empire of Chindia” (Knopf, 2006), “The Shadow Mao” (Knopf, 2006), “Hope Indian” (Knopf, 2007), “Slow Economy” (Knopf, 2009), and “West Extreme” (Knopf, 2010). He is the recipient of the Luigi Barzini and the Saint Vincent prizes for journalism.