Dopo la Pandemia: il futuro e la memoria costituzionale

This work highlights how the economic-pandemic crisis did not lead to the definitive crisis of the system of principles and values underlying the Constitution, which continues to be an essential tool to face up the problems that afflict the country. It represents the indispensable tool for resolving ongoing social conflicts in a progressive direction and thus guaranteeing a new democratic perspective of social life. In short, the collapse of the economic, social and environmental order cannot be confused with the collapse of the program of personal and social emancipation prescribed by the Constitution. The economic-pandemic crisis has revealed the limits of the neoliberal model based on the pursuit of profit, financial rent and wild mass consumption. The Constitution with its principles of solidarity and social justice therefore represents a fundamental guideline for getting out of the chaos caused by the crisis of economic globalization. The parties and movements that claim the need to rebalance the altered relationship between political control and the power of the economy and technology placed at its service, should return, in particular, to reflect on the powers of democratic government of the economy provided for by the Constitution in order to verify their relevance or the need for their remodeling, which makes them capable of facing the problems posed by a globalized economy, but no less in need of being governed, according to the purposes of economic, social and environmental justice.