WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, UCADI #169: START AGAIN AT SCHLEIN? (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The election of the new PD secretary can be read from different points of view:

internal, external and general.Let's start from the inside. The PD is a party
evaporated, or the next stage to the liquid party much praised in past years. So
evaporated that the leadership group not only chooses, once again, to have
outsiders elect the secretary (a fashion that seemed to have passed after the
devastating experience of Renzism, where it was demonstrated that this was the
way to demolish the party) but also he doesn't even realize that he has proposed
as his own candidate a figure that is also disliked by his family. And so,
punctually, the secretary or rather the secretary (members of the Democratic
Party for a handful of days) voted for the gazebos, outclasses the name chosen by
the circles. But if a member ("militant" is now too big a word) counts for less
than a stranger who, by paying 2 euros and signing a generic document, wins the
right to choose who will lead the party, what is the point of his presence? The
question would arise spontaneously were it not that this phase is now old
history. The very concept of party as a structure of subjects uniformed by an
ideology aimed at the conquest of power is now defunct. And this aspect doesn't
even seem to be raised or even thought about anymore.
Within a single system of thought (which like all totalitarian ideologies even
denies the systemic crises it has been experiencing for 15 years) the parties are
divided on surface issues, or, when the hiatus would appear more profound, this
is exposed without ever discussing the system, the capital, which now seems to
have become a "state of nature".
So from the internal point of view of the PD, Schlein's victory, however
sympathetic it may be to us or may represent some novelty, fits into this
postmodern and "occasional" context that distinguishes the PD. Yesterday it was
Renzi who "climbed" the party, today she is the young woman who conquers it from
the outside. With a concept of the role of the secretary as the one, or the one,
who "wins" and not who should represent and lead a party in the maximum
convergence (a party should be an association of uniformly thinking subjects and
not the imitation of the Parliament ).
Having said (and written) all of this, let's move on to a view from the outside.
There is no doubt that Elly Schlein's victory does not represent a real change of
pace (this will remain to be verified). but a clear indication of intolerance
towards the ruling class of the Democratic Party by the variegated world outside
the party and also, as a logical consequence in the madness of the "open
primaries", by the opponents of that party. An intolerance that the establishment
has not been able to grasp in any way, now finding itself with a secretariat
split in half, but whose majority is against the new secretary. In any case, due
to the strange paths that fate chooses, it could also be that this arrival in the
"Cesarini area" will avoid the end of the party which by now seemed to be taken
for granted. It is not known whether this will be good or bad. It could also be
the sign of a change, but one that always travels on an impalpable and fragile
basis, based on individual personalities, on marketing, on communication for its
own sake. Yesterday Renzi, today Schlein.
On a general level, however, we move in a curious virtual world. Where the
right-wing newspapers ("Libero", "Il Giornale" and the radical "La Verità") see
in the election of the new secretary no less than a Bolshevik, also representing
her with a hooked nose and emphasizing her Jewish origins. Anti-communism (but
also anti-Semitism) is still the true unifying root of the Italian right, even
when there is not even a memory of communism left. A world that until recently
tried to tinker with "socialist" arguments (for dupes), but which proves that it
just can't hold back. Curiously, even for the press of the regime it is a turn to
the left, viewed with a little concern and "Repubblica" has already rushed to
give the line.
Let's clear one thing up. We at Schlein and the PD care rightly and if we talk
about it it is above all because it is a party still voted for by millions of
people and which has governed this country in recent years with anyone and we
believe it, as we always have, one of the most harmful subjects for any thought
of class recomposition and who has endorsed practically every destruction of the
social conquests of the last 50 years, to exchange them for the nonsense of civil
rights that are not even really pursued.
History will prove us wrong and the new PD will surely become the bulwark of the
reborn social struggle.
The article will be reinstated. 18, demolished the school-work alternation,
increased health care costs, stopped Fornero, canceled precariousness.
All flour of the "democratic" sack to tell the truth. It will be hard for Schlein
to convince that it was all wrong, unless the party changes.
In short, we are certainly unworthy and cynical, but we would be happy to be
wrong if this weren't the umpteenth recitation of a change that is only in the
words, look, approach and packaging of a party that has now become a kind of club
of the smile.
Of course, meeting in the "cloud" of Fuksas does not call to mind something
popular and that air of eternal first class does not exactly send the crowds into
raptures.
Of course, the satisfaction of seeing the terrible ruling class that preceded
Schlein froth a bit is there, and even the redefinition of positions won't be a
walk in the park. But these are still skirmishes for internal use.
In the meantime, we will carefully follow this new course full of love, but we
cannot prevent Troisi from coming to mind when (in "Groundhog Day from Three") he
is told "when there is love, everything is there" he replies ": No, chell' è
'Cheers! "

Andrea Bellucci

http://www.ucadi.org/2023/03/22/ricomincio-da-schlein/
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