Il socialista che non si contenta: Dal Pra e il PSI

Mario Dal Pra had a long but discontinuous political experience. After a period in the Partito d'Azione, coinci- ding with his clandestine activity in the Resistance, he joined the Partito Socialista Ita- liano and remained until the second half of the 1970s. His commitment began by col- laborating with «Avanti» before being involved in the local and national structures of the Party. Always close to Riccardo Lombardi, he was to represent him in the Milane- se Federation as head of the education commission. Dal Pra was also elected to the City Council for two years. Academic commitment but also the great political innova- tions of the second half of the 1960s distracted him from politics, to which he returned sporadically with some articles not only in the socialist newspaper but also those of the extra- parliamentary left and of the PCI. Whereas Salvemini called Ivanoe Bonomi «the socialist who is satisfied», Mario Dal Pra comes across as a completely insatiable so- cialist.