WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, UCADI, #175 - Deja vu (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 When fascism came to power in 1922, the liberals thought of reusing it

to get rid of the red rogue, to then gradually tame it and bring it back
into the institutional framework. As is known, the operation did not
succeed and it was rather fascism that freed itself from the liberals as
well and definitively assumed power with oppression and violence,
establishing the dictatorship. This time capitalism was more cautious
and prepared the advent of fascism in government in a much more shrewd
way, also on the strength of the fact that this time the red scoundrel
had already been largely disarmed by years of failed leftist policy
which had destroyed the opposition in factories and squares, restricting
its action to a sterile contentious presence within the institutions,
governing in the name and on behalf of capital, without having the
explicit consent of its electorate to do so, rather betraying its interests.
Credit goes to the Draghi government for having prepared, in the name
and on behalf of economic and financial capital, a rigid economic
straitjacket that would restrict budgetary resources to a minimum and
the possibility of varying the various expenditure items, which allowed
to act as guarantor for the ascension to the government of fascism to
which he ensured possible international coverage, thanks to the
institutional control that membership of the European Union allows,
coordinating the operation with the US ally (remember his travels in USA
at the end of its mandate), guaranteeing that on the one hand the
fascism in government would respect the agreements, on the other that
the ally, "elder brother", would provide the necessary international
coverage. Thanks to the war, the operation can now be said to be
perfectly successful and the Meloni government, fascist, in some ways
very fascist, rules unchallenged sovereign.
This time it was liberalism that engulfed fascism, transmitting to the
government that is its interpreter all the characteristics of the
government of the bosses that guarantees profit, assuring Italy of a
framework of economic stability that allows it to keep productivity
indices high, low the cost of labour, leaving a free hand to the
executive to try to restructure the relationship between classes and
classes in Italy and to redefine the profile of the nation, redesigning
it and expelling from its experience, from its past, from its DNA, the
struggle through direct action for equality or at least the tendency to
achieve it, solidarity, humanity, freedom of persons and customs, in
short, rejecting that new world made up of dignity of work and civil
liberties which was the precipitate of century that has just ended.
This is the point of view from which we must read everyday politics and
then we are able to see the implications of many small events which, if
taken by themselves, seem incomprehensible to us. For example, it is
worth thinking about and explaining the premier's decision to clash with
the banks, to which - by her independent decision - a tax on extra
profits would be imposed, with the motivation that these occurred using
an unjust operating position on the market that has allowed
stratospheric profits.
Given that the same thing should be asked of all those economic and
financial groups that have done the same, operating in the
pharmaceutical industry, on the energy market, in the war industry,
exploiting the pandemic and the war to strengthen control over the
market for distribution and sales of goods and services, the system has
already dug the fingernails of the provision, which on paper should have
yielded a few billion, but which, due to the improvident skills of the
wheelhouse and the political contingencies, will end (after the note
from the Mef ) to make more and no less about a measly
billion.
The problem is that the prime minister remains an upstart, extraneous to
the parlor of politics and the economy, which, whatever she says, she
doesn't know. The banking issue makes this clear, considering that your
move has produced a loss of capitalization of the banks calculated at
8-10 billion. You could have simply contacted the always available
eternal president of the ABI, in that position for 10 years, asking him
for his willingness to deal with the content of the provision and the
tax revenue which would certainly have been greater and produced without
damage. The fact is that the premier is gripped by the unavailability of
budgets and resources and furthermore she had no intention of
negotiating on the use of the swag, preferring to dedicate it to a rain
distribution agreed with her cronies.  Furthermore, the prime minister
needed to show an iron fist, which later turned out to be butter, to
speak to the right of her electorate, to that social right that is
trying to send a political signal, saying that her government is ready
to fight the plutocratic forces , the bankers, as in the best times of
fascism, indeed it is ready to dust off some indications from what were
the choices of the dying fascism of the Republic of Salò, which wanted
to be characterized by the promise of the socialization of companies,
through the promotion of worker shareholding .
What is tragic about this government is that it is unable to emerge from
a rehashing of history, from a deja vu that imposes itself, forcing
itself to retrace the nostalgic paths of the one who was the "duce of
the Italians", in an attempt to revive that flame which he keeps in the
symbol of his party.

The country they want

The country that the government wants is plastically represented by what
is happening in Bergamo where a private hospital offers the availability
of immediate intervention in an emergency room reserved for those
willing to pay around EUR150 for the service. In other words;: you want
health protection, you pay for it; government and employers guarantee a
swollen paycheck, detaxed or at least with minimal taxation, but then
each one for himself and therefore the weakest, those in need, the sick,
people prevented from working for any reason, if I'll take care of it
myself. It seems like an invitation to share the evangelical theory
outlined by the "prosperity theology", the way to salvation through
maximum profit in social life, because whoever is in poverty is in sin,
so pay!
The country that the right wants is made up of many groups and
corporations that defend their interests, which form an alliance from
time to time to achieve the greatness of the nation, having as their
objective the autonomy and self-sufficiency of those who live in the
territory of the country, but only of those linked by blood, rooted in
tradition, members of an orderly society that sees the traditional
family as the fulcrum of social life, even if then everyone chooses to
live interpersonal relationships as they see fit, but covered by the
hypocrisy and respectability. This idea of a nation is something
very perverse, morally and ethically unacceptable, constitutionally
incompatible with the country project built by the struggle to resist
fascism; but this is precisely the main objective of the neo-fascist
government, to erase the memory of that season of freedom, so that the
lower classes never again dare to raise their heads.

The country we want

There is no doubt that the country must oppose all of this with all its
strength and try to react by mobilizing, assuring the government a
season of struggle that does not pay attention and which it says it does
not fear. Unfortunately, at the moment, this seems to be more of a need
and a desire than a real hypothesis, because the institutional left has
not understood that either he takes the fight to the squares and
streets, and then there is some possibility of making an impact, or his
role will remain sterile, inconsistent, debilitating, sowing
bewilderment and frustration due to the inability to achieve any objective.
The workers must know that the rubble that the war has sown has brought
destruction and death to the peoples.
will have to find an interruption, at least momentarily. And it will be
at the moment, thanks to the repercussions that peace will transmit,
both from an economic and a value point of view, that a showdown will
come and the peoples will forcefully ask themselves what are the
responsibilities of whoever led them to a material and humanitarian
which will then be there for all to see.
In spite of many, a new world order will emerge and the promise of
having the Ukrainian prairies to rebuild and consolidate in order to
invest and make profits will be impracticable in an area strewn with
bombs, mines, geological and hydrological instability, pollution and it
will be discovered therefore that it is a bad investment. The
transformations of the productive economic structure will come to a
head, induced by both the green and technological revolutions,
accompanied by the massive introduction of artificial intelligence,
which will impose a reconsideration of the role of work, of working
time, of the relationship between work and productivity, which can only
impose a profound reflection also relating to the reconsideration of the
structures of governance and management of the territories, in short, a
rethinking of the way of life and of making the society in which we live
function.

The editorial staff

http://www.ucadi.org/2023/08/18/deja-vu/
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