WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, UCADI #172 - Territory and crisis of the left (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The profound social transformations that have taken place in the last twenty

years have profoundly changed the distribution of populations across territories,
affecting their perception of power, the role of the state and public
administrations, and the management of collective interests . It is a phenomenon
of global dimensions which affects all countries, albeit to varying degrees,
which, in our opinion, also affects the electoral behavior of the populations,
helping to distance them from voting and participation. ---- Restricting our gaze
to our country, we note that the Italian population is distributed as follows:
34.3% live in large cities, 41.2% in cities and suburbs and 24.5% of Italians in
rural areas. This distribution corresponds to electoral behaviour, levels of
homogeneous participation which extend to the inhabitants of the suburbs of large
cities. If, deepening the analysis, we shift our gaze to the relationships and
differences between these areas and, using some significant indices that use
income, styles and quality of life as main parameters, we note primarily that the
sum between the last two groups is the majority and that the behavioral
evaluation parameters between these two groups are almost similar.
Identical are the difficulties in finding work, in using services, such as
nursery schools and schools, access to care, roads and transport, availability of
lodgings, the possibility of accessing culture and cultural activities, to that
whole which allows a good level quality of life and leisure time. In particular,
the same way it comes experienced the relationship with immigration which is
distributed in different forms between the two groups. While in the first, that
of the cities, we often see migrants in transit wandering, looking for
opportunities to move to other places, in the second two areas we see the
formation of settlements that extend to the outskirts of the larger cities,
eroding spaces and contending for the territory to the autochthonous communities
which, in the persistent lack of services, see themselves being contested for the
little they have. In this way the conditions mature for racist attitudes, refusal
of newcomers and behaviors of rejection, marginalization which, at the electoral
level, prove to be, in the absence of any integration policy, support for those
political forces which carry out an active propaganda of rejection, These
different interests and behaviors generate a different distribution of votes and
consents and give rise to a growing social clash between city and countryside,
between metropolis and suburbs, which manifests itself in a different behavior
with respect to voting. So while the cities choose to be represented and managed
by those forces that agree to compete with the change in society and values, the
other social bloc looks to the right, to those forces of conservation which, by
offering "safe second-hand" they refer to the values and behaviors perceived as
traditional which are none other than those of habit. Anxieties, fear, the fear
of change, the uncertainty deriving from an unknown world are addressed in this
way, This behavior is evidenced by what is happening in many countries where fear
of change prevails, fears of uncontrolled technological development, which
translate into electoral consensus for the right.

The lack of response from the reformist left

The anguish that crosses the world of work, which sows uncertainty and leaves few
incomes and secure jobs, which transforms the world of production and work, has
not been adequately addressed and understood by the reformist left, so much so
that the only response that what he has given has been to present himself as the
good manager of a more humane capitalism. This choice is the logical consequence
of the fact that having chosen the realization of the Marxist utopia as the only
one capable of producing an alternative to capitalism and having seen it fail and
dissolve, surrender has taken place. A new and more careful analysis of the
factors of production and of the transformations induced by capitalism has not
replaced the now clearly inadequate project of a future society with credible,
achievable, organic, effective, In other words, after the bankruptcy or rather
after the crisis, the economy of the plan the Marxist component had nothing more
to say in economics and on the methods of construction of the future society and
limited itself to tweaks and adjustments to make it compatible and functional to
the capitalist system the social and productive structure that he had created.
In western countries the left has embraced change and innovation, uncritically
incorporating modernity, technological and telematic development, the
introduction of robotics, leaving behind the rubble of the class it claimed to
represent, opening the doors of a prairie in which the right has launched itself,
proposing the restoration of tradition, certain values, the conservation of the
existing, the image of a known and safe world in which to move, demanding in
return the renunciation of a promised but never realized equality , to
solidarity, to the hope of a better tomorrow, offering as a political proposal
the refusal of change and the preservation of the existing order, rather than
that of wanting and knowing how to build a security and protective world which
finds confirmation in the recovery of tradition.
 From here comes the completely illusory promise of a solution to the problems,
but so be it.

The failure of the revolutionary left

The revolutionary left has not been outdone and unable to read and interpret the
changes has not been able to reformulate its own economic theory, making it
follow the feasible realistic proposals for the reorganization of society and to
pursue and envisage a new model of social relations and between the classes
capable of introducing more equality, combined with freedom, therefore it has
seen its role and its credibility progressively and inexorably reduced and it has
lost any possibility of guiding the masses and representing their interests, so
that it has lost the inspiring links in its action, impoverishing itself further
both from a theoretical point of view and from a political, tactical and
strategic point of view. Today the revolutionary left is relegated to a marginal
political role, while segments of it, of the phase and, on a practical level. to
be far from concretely operating in society.
Instead, it should be understood that in order to restart, one must work on the
territory, intervene by implementing the recovery of the memory of the
territories, perhaps producing slight changes in behavior, but still offering
points of reference to fragments of the class that are disoriented and in search
of their own class consciousness. All of this takes place, but in scattered and
separate places, without any coordination, also because there is no political
organization that this coordination can implement, bringing it to life and making
it useful for the coordination of struggles and political action.
Therefore, paraphrasing a slogan that used to belong to Maoist politics, we can
only say "Let millefiori blossom, then we will reap the fruits."

Immediately, against this government

It should be noted that in Italy a first phase of the right's strategy was
achieved with the full occupation of the state, its centers of power. It is now a
question of preventing this occupation of yours from being consolidated and there
is no better way than to demonstrate that it is a source of inefficiency, it is
contrary to everyone's interests. The litmus test to be used is to measure
oneself on the implementation of the PNRR, emphasizing both the inability to
carry out the works, the errors in the selection of those to be carried out, the
inability to use the country's debt for the purpose of allowing the solution of
the main problems that it has, such as that of acquiring efficient and equal
health care, implementing the rehabilitation of the territory and making it safe,
This last problem must be assumed as a priority together with all people of good
will, also because the possibility of re-founding both the reformist parties and
the revolutionary forces is based on its solution, which cannot do without the
search for peace and the rejection of war in every way, as tools for settling
international disputes. The narrative on the necessary choice and aggressor
country does not hold up in the face of the need to put a stop to the imperialist
policy of the United States which primarily aims at the weakening of Europe.
The time has come to acknowledge that a new world order has been created, of a
multipolar nature, which is there for all to see: a world of plates, in which the
era of the dominance of the dollar on the world market of currencies and as a
currency of exchange and commerce, for a different and perhaps better world,
where the weakest countries are not mortified by the imperialist action of one of
them which imposes world order on all the others.

The editorial staff

http://www.ucadi.org/2023/06/19/territorio-e-crisi-della-sinistra/
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