Workers sit on a locomotive carrying the flags of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ) and pulling wagons loaded with coal cross the France-Luxembourg border , without stopping at it , to mark the opening of the common market for coal and iron ore , 2 May 1956 . | Photograph : Theo MEY © European Union 2021 – Source : EP
Lavoratori seduti su una locomotiva con le bandiere dei sei Stati membri della Comunità europea del carbone e dell ’ acciaio ( CECA ) che traina vagoni carichi di carbone e attraversa , senza fare sosta , il confine franco-lussemburghese , per indicare l ’ apertura del mercato comune per carbone e minerale di ferro , 2 maggio 1956 . | Fotografia : Theo MEY © Unione europea 2021 – Fonte : EP
Unlike the more private and intimate concept of ‘ remembrance ’, there is with ‘ commemoration ’ the fundamental notion of being part of a group , a community .
The first commemorations were an act of remembering the dead , of worshiping forebears and of reliving a common past , in a manner which captured and reflected a sense of community . Such an act was therefore key to defining one ’ s identity and origins .
However who and what events should one remember ? And with whom should one share this reliving of the past ? To which community – or rather communities – does one belong ? Of which community / communities does one feel oneself a member ?
In modern times , membership of a community 1 overlaps with membership of the nation ’ s political society .
1 . In the Weberian sense of the term : a social relationship will be called a “ communitization ” ( Vergemeinschaftung ) if and to the extent that the orientation of social action rests – in the individual instance , or on average , or as a pure type – upon a subjectively felt ( affectual or traditional ) mutual sense of belonging among those involved .” Weber , M ., Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft , Tübingen , 1922
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