WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria: On General Vannacci's book (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 This was the case this summer: General Roberto Vannacci's book, entitled

"The world upside down", has created and continues to be talked about.
As the newspaper Domani writes, "it had never happened that a
self-published book distributed only by Amazon was first in the
rankings". In just over two weeks the booklet sold 100 thousand copies,
driven by very generous media attention, very notable figures for
Italian publishing. ---- The press, oh yes, has realized that the
generals are fascists, and there has been an incessant rain of comments,
analyses, interviews. The parties, alas, have realized that the generals
are fascists, and have already extended their tentacles towards
Vannacci: Forza Nuova and Gianni Alemanno's little party were the first
to try, offers kindly declined by the general's ambition, are trying
with the League has more conviction and intends to nominate him for the
next European elections, an attempt that will probably succeed.

There is already a page dedicated to Vannacci on Wikipedia. In which we
learn that "he is a division general, not automatically encyclopedic.
His notoriety was created thanks to a single publication and the
(temporary) attention of the media". The next note is even more
explanatory: the entry was written on commission from the biographer
himself. In short: Vannacci probably hoped for this echo and decided to
ride it, given that he doesn't lack ego. Not bad for a former commander
of the Folgore, head of the Military Geographic Institute until the
publication of the volume. Incidentally, no one has pointed out that the
body that should provide geographical and topographic maps (maps, but
not only) according to those who study this area has not updated them
for years.

But what does the book say? An admission: I was among those who
purchased it, one of my fetishes is publications by the military,
especially when, as in the case of Vannacci, they try to embellish the
unsustainability of their ideas and then are surprised when they are
rightly pointed out as fascist. Vannacci's would like to be a pamphlet
but the central thesis is the most banal and boring return to normality,
whatever it may be, because my lady, the world is turning the opposite
of how it should be.

The volume is just a tad more detailed than bar discussions: the general
addresses various topics - energy, the homeland, multiculturalism,
cities, taxes - and does so by quoting an article here and there, when
it goes well, and more often referring to their own experience in the
field. Taking it for granted that the world of military missions, i.e.
colonial, warlike and abusive, is useful for understanding any type of
society. If the first chapter is dedicated to "common sense", why are
the general's homophobic and racist theses always presented as such, the
rest of the pages are a continuous exaltation of tradition and the
established order, always with an attitude that would like to be
dismissed and which for this very reason supports the worst atrocities.
An example above all: in the chapter dedicated to security,
hypothesizing the arrival of a thief in the house (a well-known
obsession of a country of owners like Italy), the general asks himself
"why I shouldn't be authorized to shoot him, to stab him with any object
passes into my hands or to catapult him down the stairs or the window he
is trying to enter and render him forever harmless?"; in practice he is
asking for a license to kill even in the civilian sphere, as he is
already granted in the military sphere.

The book lashes out against the "small and meager minorities" (we inform
the general that the army to which he boasts of belonging is also one)
who, according to him, "override common sentiment". It is interesting to
note how the general, and we imagine those who share his theses, feel
besieged by these alleged minorities. It is not enough for him to be the
noisy (rather than "silent", as the general says with the most worn out
of formulas) and historically established majority of this wretched
country, it is not enough for him to govern Italy, Vannacci and his
acolytes want domination, they want continue to spit on their victims
(poor, migrants, gays, environmentalists), they do not accept
solidarity, awareness, integration, conflicts. They want a peaceful,
silent Italy, where their common sense - that is, abuse erected into a
system - becomes dictatorship, in that unhealthy idea of democracy where
everyone can speak but then what the powers that be decides are done.
However, Vannacci's book has merit: it has revealed what we anarchists
have been supporting for a long time. Food for thought which, however,
was lost in the general debate, which as usual was more interested in
making noise about Vannacci's bullshit.

After the controversy, the army general staff removed him from office,
while Defense Minister Guido Crosetto announced a disciplinary
investigation: the usual pantomime to show that something is being done,
and yet another assist to the ego of Vannacci, who will once again be
able to pass himself off as a victim, the favorite sport on the right.
What to expect from someone who has sung Folgore's most famous
anti-communist anthem, Hand grenades and caresses with the dagger? What
to expect from those who are forged in those total institutions that are
the barracks, where machismo reigns and where one is educated in
violence and oppression? What do you expect from those who are bred by
the state to give and follow orders, so as to maintain privilege and
oppression, from those who go around the world to kill and plunder?

Exactly 60 years ago the film "We Want the Colonels" was released, one
of the most underrated works by Mario Monicelli, a ferocious satire that
imagined a clumsy coup by the military and the right, a clear reference
to the attempt by the commander of the X Mas Junio Valerio Borghese . In
one of the most famous scenes of the film, some senior officers, who
quietly call each other comrades, meet to develop the ORPO plan, which
stands for order and power, which is then transformed into the more
prosaic FAVA, family and values. Among the points cited are the
reinstatement of the death penalty, the reopening of casinos with the
state license, slogans for students such as "speak only when you are
interrogated", the extension of military detention. For people like
Vannacci, the right in government and those who aspire to a small place
in the future divisions of power, that film is not a joke but a dream. A
world on the contrary, theirs.

A.T.

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