The sociologist Ludolfo Paramio Rodrigo, a long-time PSOE member of the guerrilla sector, has died in Madrid at the age of 75, a spokesperson for the Institute of Policies and Public Goods of the CSIC, where he worked as a professor, has confirmed. In other professional stages, Paramio collaborated with President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in La Moncloa and presided over the Pablo Iglesias Foundation.
The socialist intellectual, author of twenty books and numerous articles, obtained his doctorate from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1982 for a thesis directed by the philosopher Javier Muguerza and titled The limits of the methodology of the logic of science to the sociology of the scientific community. That same year he joined the PSOE and during the years of Felipe González’s government he was aligned with Vice President Alfonso Guerra. He became Secretary of Training in the Federal Executive and wrote the political presentation of the 33rd Federal Congress of the PSOE, held in 1994, the last one with González as general secretary and which ended with the guerrilla sector remaining in a minority.
After the arrival of Zapatero to the presidency of the Government in 2004, the new head of the Executive incorporated him into his cabinet in La Moncloa as head of Analysis and Studies, a position in which he remained throughout the legislature.
After that stage in the party and in the Presidency of the Government, he focused on his academic activity. He was a professor of Sociology at the Autonomous and Complutense universities of Madrid. At the CSIC he directed the defunct Comparative Policies Unit and was a Research Professor at the Institute of Policies and Public Goods of the Center for Human and Social Sciences of the Council. At the Ortega y Gasset University Research Institute he was director of the doctorate, a pioneer in Spain, Latin America, the foundation dedicated to the philosopher stands out. In a tribute in 2019José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero highlighted that Paramio belonged to “the not very frequent lineage of complete intellectuals”, who are characterized because “they reflect, investigate, read, publish and commit themselves”. Another of the organizations in which he collaborated is the Sistema Foundation of also socialist sociologist José Félix Tezanos, aligned in his day with the so-called guerrism and currently president of the CIS.
The PSOE, through its official account on the social network Pablo Iglesias. The president of the party, Cristina Narbona, has also remembered him after his death and has defined him as “a great socialist and a reference.”
The founder of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, paid tribute to him this Friday in a message on the same social network, ensuring that Paramio was “one of the most brilliant social democratic intellectuals in our country”, from whom he learned a lot, even if he did not agree. with its postulates.
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