La guerra come strumento di emancipazione di un popolo. Il caso del Sardismo

Abstract

The end of the Great War for many Sardinian intellectuals is an opportunity for a rebirth of the island. The “Movimento dei Combattenti” would emerge as a political force and as a mass-based party. It would therefore have characteristics unique to the rest of Italy, including the theme of autonomy and emphasizing the differences from the rest of Italy. This paper does not propose a simple narration of events, but to define and to criticize sardismo in its key concepts and in the main works of its most important promoters such as Deffenu, Pilia and Bellieni. The weltanschauung that supports is varied and includes: a Marxist analysis of revolutionary syndicalism, the mythology of the origins, genuine political will to be able to make its entry in the History emerging in the State.