Tangentopoli : il Pds e l'eredità della questione morale

The moral question represents one of the most important symbolic elements of the identity of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from 1981 to 1991, and at the same time, one of the political-cultural factors that characterized the public discourse during Italy's regime crisis in 1992/1993. It is a syntagm almost always linked to the term "honesty" that contributes to shaping a public discourse evoking disappointment with the "made nation", denunciation of the "corruption" of the ruling class and the need to correct this "wrong country". This contribution aims to reconstruct the origins, development and affirmation of the moral question in the public discourse of the PCI and PDS, with particular focus on the decade of the 1980s and the Tangentopoli period. [Publisher's text]