The public happiness 
I n one of his last contributions, the article Abundance frugal published in Il Manifesto of September 20, 2010, Serge Latouche, known theorist decline, citing " The draft of the "economy" or civil happiness developed mainly by a group of Italian economists (mainly represented by Stefano Zamagni, Luigino Bruni, Benedetto Gui, Stefano Bartolini, Leonardo Becchetti ) ", reminds us that "the economy revives the 'public happiness' Antonio Genovesi and the Neapolitan school of the eighteenth century. " The same Luigino Bruni, in his You can be happy alone? On eudaimonia, and the gift economy. Interview with Salvatore Natoli , refers, in the introduction, citing the tradition of Neapolitan Masonry, Palmieri and Genovesi.
N on this is the place, nor the purpose of this post, to meet the terms of debate on the concept of decline. A debate is often characterized by enthusiastic, sometimes the surface, accessions to the proposals linked to its practical and political or critical at times referred, often carried out, at least in left some of Marxian approach, starting with the concept of analytical instrumentation dall'estraneità of Marxism itself. Nor even to account for interesting attempts to combine instances of contraction and use of Marxism, such as Badiale Buontempelli and their Marx and decrease. For a good use of Marx's thought .
P ver interesting is the investigation of the public happiness memory of Enlightenment, a concept to be investigated scientifically and to build a conceptual basis, under the changed conditions of the historical period, the company of men and Women integrals. A society where the antagonism between the private and public dimension allows for a harmonious dialectic between them, because, to quote the Genoese, "law of the universe is that you can not make us happy without the other" . What is at stake is the chance to take over the bourgeois society, "with its classes and its class contradictions" that Marx defines "in association which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all ", composed of men and women and employers aware of own destiny. Then we move along the path of public and collective happiness, because, to quote the philosopher Bodei Remo, " be happy alone is like dancing in a hospital or on the deck of the Titanic " .
