The real debacle of electoral participation in the last administrative round
follows a trend that now seems unstoppable . ---- This evidence, a few decadesago would have had the effect of a nuclear explosion and would have beenconsidered a tragedy of enormous proportions, today it occupies a few lines inthe newspapers (which no one reads anymore, or almost) and some interventions onsocial media. ---- This happens precisely because there has been no explosion, norude awakening. If anything, it was an avalanche, artificially created, which hasgrown more and more and arrives at the doorstep taking everything away. No,sorry, the avalanche metaphor doesn't work. So let's read these 2 lines: ----"European political systems are overloaded with participants and demands and arefinding it increasingly difficult to master the complexity that is precisely thenatural result of their economic growth and political development"[1]On the part of the ruling classes, the question has always been clear: liberalism(what a beautiful word: like "liberalization, liberal" it contains a magicalsound) does notallow too much participation, social justice. Liberalism is horrified by the word"socialism". When liberalism can, it supports fascism rather than risk losing itsstatus (and fascism, which knows it well, eventually also drags liberals into itsnemesis. But "always better than communism").So we have the elections. A process of choosing bourgeois democracies that goesquite well as long as the choice is the correct one for the functioning of thesame "liberal" democracy but not too much. When you cross the limit, the way tocalm this dangerous invasion of the barbarians can be implemented in different ways.Italy has gone through them all. First the bombs went off, which was followed bya decade of terrorism which however failed substantially to demolish theprogressive (compromise, but progressive) structure of the Italian Constitution.Suffice it to say that shortly after the kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro, theNHS was born. This happened also because the political class (which appeared muchworse than we can remember today; however, one could not think that we weredealing with the current "bad show" society) of the time, even the one thatcharacterized the mostright-handed Democrazia Cristiana had some characteristics. First of all, itclaimed a large autonomy from the economic power, then because the Catholicorigins of our country have always quite disliked turbo-capitalism. Let's beclear, I'm not saying that the DC was made up of Bolsheviks, but (as had happenedfor the PPI before the twenty years) there was a certain attention for thehumbler classes, above all the peasantry, the very petty bourgeoisie, familycapitalism for the which the corrupting effect of capital left to itself wasfeared. There was in all this an enormous dose of moralism (which obviouslycrossed the whole country and also penetrated the PCI to a large extent) andrespectability. But there was also the attention that that world would not beoverwhelmed.In short, despite the difficult decade 1960-1970, progressive Italian democracyseemed to still be standing, albeit a little bruised.Capital (which doesn't have a plan, doesn't think or speak, but knows very wellwhat to do, at the cost of screwing up the whole planet) must find other ways tosurvive.Apologizing for the disrespectful comparison, Eichmann's action to carry out thedeportation and extermination of the Jews of Europe comes to mind. It would havebeen impossible to force hundreds of thousands of people up to their deaths. Thebest thing is that they went alone, of their own "will". Thus the ghettos, theJewish councils and the Jewish police were created, which served admirably toimplement the plan without many major complications "find yourself on day x insquare y to get registered" and, obviously, they went there, urged by theirleaders . "Deliver your personal belongings to the depot before leaving". Andthey handed them over to their own compatriots who worked for the Third Reich. Istop here with the parallels because I understand that they may be consideredabusive. Of course it's not the same thing. But metaphors are also used toconnect distant facts...Returning to capital (ah, speaking of disrespectful comparisons, take a read herehttps://financecue.it/10-grandi-imprese-collaborarono-hitler-nazismo-olocausto/17765/ or here http://www.schiavidihitler.it/Pagine_documenti/archivio/IBM.htm) at theend of the 70s violence no longer appears as the way to close ranks and after theearly 80s and the bombs cease (a few more will explode but for different reasonsand in distant contexts). It's time to change register. Information technologieswill come to the rescue.The "mass" worker will be almost useless, repetitive work can be done bymachines. But above all, the wind will change in the political context:"Then, a little good life, a little money doesn't make anyone sick, you becomemore beautiful, cleaner, an hour in the gym, a shower, love , the fullness of thesenses, nature!" .[2]Enrich yourselves will be the motto of the new Italy of the 80s, in theinternational situation of Craxi, Thatcher and Reagan (anything but metaphors!).But, to tell the truth, despite the irresistibility of this word and theappearance of praise that would have appeared embarrassing to "entrepreneurs"just a few years earlier, something still remained for a good part of the 80s ofthe last century. What will sweep everything away will be, more than the factitself, the reading that the left will give of the fall of the so-calledcountries. "real socialism". That is, not the end of a political and socialsystem in its historical context (a system that lasted 70 years, not a day) butnone other than "the end of communism". On this basis, not inclined butprecipitously, the dynamics of the left were built in our country (in ours morethan others, where, at least, the word "social democracy" was not considered anoffense to be washed away with blood). It was an epochal "free all".the left has, gradually, taken upon itself every characteristic of capital'sapologists (dangerous like all novices, imbued with an ideology that is absent inthe turbo-capitalists. It would be like asking the lion why it tears the gazelleto pieces) and, apart from changing its name every decade to their own party, the"heirs" have completely embraced post-ideology (that is, where there is only oneideology, and totalitarian) by joining the EU and NATO not as one joinspolitical, economic and military alliances, but supinely as one adheres to afundamentalist religion.This could not fail to involve the electoral moment. In the meantime Renzieliminated the voters (with a reform of the electoral system of the provincesworthy of the banana republic) the PD continued with the farce of the primaries,where the voter already dazed by a world that is no longer able to understand(also because no one he explains) doesn't quite know what he's going to vote forand mistakes the staging of a kind of party that makes "the people" (!) choosewho will lead it, for political elections. Then the same party supports andsupports neoliberalism in the cube: Monti, Draghi, the pension reform, thedestruction of the world of work (Treu), the school-work alternation, thejobs-act, the modification of the Constitution. There is not one thing or personof these that I have mentioned indiscriminately that can be defined, Finallycomes the reality. Which does not change when the description is changed (the"communication" hoax. As Wody Allen would say, with a spiked club in hand onecommunicates much better) and one wonders not why only 40% go to vote, but howthe fuck face going to vote STILL 40 % . If with the destruction of thepolitical dialectic, the logic of the "autopilot" (that is, whoever governs thefundamental lines are drawn), pseudo-coup electoral systems (whoever takes the +1takes away the bank) by now governing has become like the challenge of Barletta(or joke) but that they govern alone, one might say (which would be exactly thedesire of the current political class. Other than fascism).But the reality is also that of huge strikes in France and even in Great Britain.Perhaps this magnificent world envisaged by the ex-left is not so beautiful afterall and I feel like closing with a fulminant post that Prof.Gianpasquale Santomassimo has published on social media:"It is incredible that the journalists of La Repubblica, faced with thelegitimate need of the property to follow the laws of the market, by sellingtitles and keeping employees' salaries rightly low, decide to resort to anantiquated and twentieth-century instrument such as the strike, instead ofself-entrepreneurs, get involved, create innovative startups and unleashcreativity, as they have always recommended to the remaining readers of thatnewspaper."Maybe old mole was buried too early.[1]Michel J. Crozier - Samuel P. Huntington - Joji Watanuki, THE CRISIS OFDEMOCRACY. Report on the governability of democracies to the TrilateralCommission , Franco Angeli, 1977. The text can be read and downloaded free ofcharge fromhttps://www.mauronovelli.it/Trilateral%20La-crisi-della-democrazia%201975.pdf [2]Giorgio Gaber, "The Useless", 1992.Andrea Belluccihttp://www.ucadi.org/2023/02/21/la-disfida-di-burletta-2/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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