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 The right - wing government goes its own way without much opposition and the only

problems it could have are internally . As is the tradition in the Italian right,
which has been substantially post-fascist since 1945, there are no problems in
relocating integrally to the bedrock of capitalism and the Atlantic alliance in a
totally supine manner. ---- The so-called "social right" although often evoked in
historiographical discussions, in fact has never existed and if there has been a
critique of capitalism it has always referred to the binomial
capitalism-modernity, with the greatest attention paid to the second term of the
couple. Capitalism has been seen above all in its destructive action on the
mythicizedpast times and the "pseudo-socialist" or, better, "national-socialist"
language has set its sights on the subaltern classes certainly not to improve
their real living conditions but to save them from the disruptive action of the
historical values God-Fatherland and family .
Now, if the fascism of the twenty years could have in its own strings distant
echoes given by the fact, specific and real, of a socialist origin (after all,
Benito Mussolini, right from his name, had been part of revolutionary socialism
to the point of becoming one of the top leaders of the PSI) in the current right
of the call to something socialist there is nothing left.
And, I would say, there is not even national socialism left.
The ability to forget even the things said a few years earlier, on the European
Union, on the Atlantic alliance (indeed no, the Atlantic alliance has always been
a fundamental point of the Italian right), or on any other issue that could have
some at least a populist appeal should not come as a surprise. The natural place
is that of capital, liberalism and an ever-updated form of social Darwinism. Even
more than 100 years ago today.
Violence forgotten or set aside, the right plays very skilfully in the electoral
context of liberal democracies, which it does not intend to touch or empty,
which, so much to empty them, have already been thought of by the others who
preceded it,leaving a void that once would have been considered very dangerous
but is now ignored. The entire parliamentary arc is substantially on the same
line with regard to economic policies and the difference is now made on what once
would have been called the superstructure. However, that doesn't mean things
won't get worse. The barely Keynesian measures such as 110% are attacked, the
basic income is demolished, penalties are tightened and intolerance and
authoritarianism are fueled.
Therefore, the circular from the Minister of Education and Merit does not
suddenly arrive in this picture. Merit already . Before dealing with the
ministerial document, it is worthwhile to dwell on this word and how it could
have happenedone of the most important (at least in theory) and most significant
ministries, in the spirit of the Republican Constitution, has been nominally
transformed (we will see the rest later) into the exact opposite of what it
should be (i.e. the place where a fundamental right is exercised: that to
education and not where the "best" are selected). Simple, this happened because
the ground had already been extensively prepared in the past years. From the
de-facto privatization of universities, to the transformation of compulsory
schooling into a whole capable of "measuring" (see Invalsi) up to Renzi's "good
school" (which was no less right-wing than Meloni) and the alternation "
School-work". The right has packed just the package. But the objects inside were
already there.
So here we are with the circular of last November 9 (November 9, 1938 in Germany
was the "Night of Crystals", but, obviously, this anniversary disappears from
every ministerial communication.....) which is worth quoting in full:

"Dear girls and boys, on the evening of 9 November 1989, tens of thousands of
inhabitants of East Berlin crossed the border crossings and poured into the
western part of the city: it was the symbolic event of the collapse of the Soviet
bloc, of the end of Cold War and the reunification of Germany and Europe. The
fall of the Wall demonstrates the dramatically bankruptcy of Communism and
determines its expulsion from the Old Continent. Communism has been one of the
great protagonists of the twentieth century, in different times and places it has
taken on even profoundly different forms, and minimizing or trivializing its
immense historical impact would be a serious intellectual error. It was born asa
great utopia: the dream of a radical revolution that will uproot humanity from
its historical limits and project it towards a future of equality, freedom,
absolute and perfect happiness. In short, that projects it towards heaven on
earth. But where it prevails it inevitably turns into an equally great nightmare:
its concrete realization everywhere involves the annihilation of individual
freedoms, persecutions, poverty, death. In fact, for utopia to come about, it is
necessary for an absolute power to be exercised without any mercy, and for
everything - humanity, justice, freedom, truth - to be subordinated to the
revolutionary objective. Thus ruthless tyrannical regimes take shape, capable of
reaching heights of violence andbrutality among the highest that mankind has
managed to touch. The road to heaven on earth is paved with millions of corpses.
And the intuition that Blaise Pascal had two and a half centuries before the
Russian revolution turns out to be dramatically true: "Man is neither angel nor
beast, and unfortunately he who wants to be an angel becomes a beast". Historians
have studied communism a lot and will continue to study it, trying to return with
ever greater precision all the extraordinary complexity of its events. But from a
civil and cultural point of view, November 9 will remain an anniversary of
primary importance for Europe: the moment in which a tragic misunderstanding ends
in whose name, for decades, the continent has been divided and its eastern half
suffocated by despotism. This awareness is even more relevant today, in the face
of the resurgence of aggressive nostalgia for the Soviet empire and the new
threats to peace in Europe.
The collapse of the Berlin Wall marks the definitive failure of the revolutionary
utopia. And it can only be, then, a celebration of our liberal democracy. An
imperfect political and social order, full of contradictions, in need of being
reinvented and rebuilt every day. And yet, the only political and social order
that can give reasonable guarantees that humanity, justice, freedom, truth are
never subordinated to any other purpose, be it noble or ignoble.
For all this, the Italian Parliament has established the "Day of Freedom" on 9
November. I invite you to reflect and discuss all of this".

Although to those who are inside political militancy or know the slightest bit
about history, this circular appears to be such a big deal that it is astonishing
for its banality, I allow myself to think that these few lines could have been
written by Veltroni, or even other leaders of the centre- left, without causing
any scandal. The controversy arose because it was raised in different forums and
there was a timid and almost obligatory queuing only because the right is in
government.
State revisionism has been a concrete reality for decades now. From Violante's
speech on the "boys of Salò" to the "day of remembrance" approved almost
unanimously by Parliament (that is, transforming a regime of invaders and allies
of the Nazis into a country of poor innocent victims . A literal reversal of
history. At least the one that objectively occurred) so getting to this circular
was not very difficult. The end of the Berlin wall becomes the end of communism
and communism becomes ispo-facto nothing more than a bloody ideology. No
reference to why that wall was built in Germany. What happened in the previous 20
years. The Nazi war, the 60 million dead, the extermination camps. No, the
criminal ideology is the communist one. And, even Putin would be a leader with
aggressive nostalgia for the Soviet empire!!
For decades no one has doubted that the Stalinist USSR meant a huge twist in
Marxian thought. And no one could fail to condemn the crimes committed. But no
one could deny that if there hadn't been the sacrifice of 20 million (20
million!) Russians, today (to quote Mario Monicelli) we would all speak German.
Primo Levi himself said that while the Gulag was a distortion of communist
ideology, a Nazism without extermination camps would not have existed and that
the Gulag and Auschwitz are not the same thing. They are two tragedies, but
enormously different. Unfortunately these analyzes have become bread only for
scholars, for historians. In the common sense (and certainly not innocently) the
idea that all ideologies are negative. All except one. That of capitalism as a
state of nature and liberalism (which had already failed in 1918) as the ideal
structure of government.
Anti-communism has always been the best glue for the impoverished middle classes,
which the right knows how to agitate very well. As I wrote above, the absence in
Parliament of a minimum class left prevents any even small criticism that could
reach a little more people than today the various, sparse and dispersed
extra-parliamentary forces can do.
Marx is now only read by capitalists and the left in Parliament is more
anti-communist than the right, not anymore not even able to understand (let alone
defend) what they claim to be their historical roots. I believe that with this
bleak landscape, the Melonian right will last longer than you think.

Caparezza's song comes to mind:

Everything that exists, is already there (already exists)
So what is done in my pieces? (it's done)
I'll make the impossible possible until reality becomes possible
Everything that exists, is already there (already exists)
So what do we do in my pieces? (one does) I will make
the impossible possible until reality becomes possible

Andrea Bellucci

https://www.miur.gov.it/-/lettera-del-ministro-valditara-agli-studenti-per-il-giorno-della-liberta-il-crollo-del-muro-ci-restitui-un-
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http://www.ucadi.org/2022/11/21/tutto-cio-che-ce-ce-gia/
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