The elections for the European Parliament saw the affirmation in many
European countries of right-wing political parties and formations thathad already appeared in their respective countries, in some cases
managing to form the government majority. There are currently 6 European
states governed by the right: Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Finland
and the Netherlands; consistent statements have come from the same
orientation in Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal and France. But despite
the electoral success, the votes collected were not sufficient to allow
these parties to reach a majority in the European Parliament and or to
allow them to assume enough strength to influence the majority that will
have to elect the new Commission and direct the work of the Parliament.
However, when it happened, it constitutes a phenomenon that must be
investigated and understood because, although these parties refer to
fascism and Nazism and re-propose many of their proposals and reflect
their characteristics, their programs present peculiar elements of
novelty and towards them seems to be falling every
preclusion by democratic and liberal forces. Eighty years after the end
of the Second World War, in the memory of the people, the memory and
knowledge of the horrors that fascism and Nazism have sown seems to have
been erased and a new narrative seems to impose itself, accompanied by
ignorance of what was and supported from the oblivion of memory,
sweetened by narratives and memories.
Due to the effects of that mechanism which induces generations to search
for their own identity and to feel entitled to the right to rewrite
history, the new generations of Europe think they are free to accept a
narrative of what has been, rewritten by the vanquished and , exploiting
the sympathies that the losers arouse and the mistakes that the winners
make, seem to want to accept the idea that it is possible that what
fascism and Nazism advocated in the past is perhaps the best solution
also for the problems of the present.
Therefore, thanks to these mechanisms, the past is cleared through
customs, even in the minds of the heirs of those who were the main
victims of that period of history, and fascism and Nazism make their way
among the lower classes, among those belonging to ethnic minorities,
even in members of the Jewish people.
In reality, this is not a new phenomenon because adhesion to fascism and
Nazism, then as today, is based on a false awareness of one's class
position, belonging to the dominant classes, has as its distinctive
character proximity to power and to money and all this does not exclude
Jews like anyone else; and therefore it is not surprising that
among the new fascists and Nazis there are, as in the past, members of
the Jewish communities, frightened and driven towards these ideologies
by the conflicts taking place in Palestine and by the ongoing clash,
which sees two Semitic populations, the Jewish and the Palestinian,
competing for domination over a single territory which is seen as
exclusive, from which to exclude the other, with methods and behaviors
on both sides, which trace the indiscriminate ferocity of Nazism and
Fascism and have no hesitations in the face of its implementation of a
genocide.
An iridescent right
The rebirth of the right was inaugurated by the blindness of the
politics of the democratic establishment of the self-styled democratic
and liberal parties, supported by the parties of the reformist left, now
devoid of any ideology and any project for a future society. No longer
possessing tools for analyzing class relations and power structures, or
rather being convinced that there is no alternative to the absolute
domination of economic and financial capital, these parties have
accepted the defeat of the values of equality and solidarity and have
chosen to place themselves within the inter-imperialist clash, engaging
in conflicts such as the one for the control of Ukraine, without
realizing that they are called to take part in a clash that is contrary
to their material interests and those of the peoples they inhabit. The
European territory.
The war, this war, is resolved and developed in the conflict between two
autocracies, equally oligarchic, which defend opposing interests and
which in the name of these send entire peoples to the massacre, in this
case both the Ukrainian and the Russian ones, in the name of a
reconstructed patriotism and nationalism, exploiting hatred, pain and
violence to practice religious persecution and deny the very principles
for which they say they are fighting.
They feast on these dead, fattening their portfolios of orders for
military expenditure and for the reconstruction of a destroyed country
which has seen its population dispersed, reconstruction limited to
material goods and therefore only partially possible, of what they have
destroyed, transforming the conflict in a tempting opportunity for
future profits.
The parties of the right have cunningly taken it upon themselves to
gather the dismay and protest towards what is happening, the opposition
of the people to seeing their own resources squandered for military
expenditure, for the production of weapons, for a policy of death and
they are unexpectedly become supporters of peace, taking advantage of
the fact that the progressive and left-wing parties - which by their
nature should have taken responsibility for the rejection of war - are
silent when they do not actively participate in the war mobilization and
the banquet over the dead.
In this way the right-wing parties have acquired a positional income
which they take advantage of to introduce, through the management of
power, profound changes to the protection of people's rights, increasing
inequalities, the exploitation of man by man and woman, reintroducing
values, ways of thinking, such as those that characterize patriarchy,
reintroducing religion as a function of controlling the masses,
legitimizing the persecution of religion, when the confessions that
manage believers do not support their positions, and above all by
introducing a distribution of wealth , characterized by inequality and
imbalances, which enhances the living conditions and well-being of a few
to the detriment of the standard of living of many.
The result is the redesign of society and social relations between
classes according to an authoritarian model, which denies rights, which
exalts arbitrariness, which favors the strongest, those who have greater
economic and material resources, and are therefore in able to exercise
power, imposing their choices on others and to live in an unequal world
where the difference in opportunities reigns supreme, where selfishness,
nationalism and hatred prevail over solidarity.
This redesign of the regressive society can only be overcome by
developing and planning a new beginning that needs extreme clarity in
the vision of relationships between classes. since nothing will be
spared, every mistake will weigh like a boulder, bearing a very high
price that will have to be paid to regain the trampled freedoms. To
still hope that, as happened in the past in France, the ad exclusion
principle aimed at expelling fascists and Nazis from power functions to
guarantee the maintenance of democratic freedoms, to think that a
"democratic" and a fascist right can exist, is an illusion. , and this
is because fallacious memory has erased the shame of what has been, to
the point that the interests arising from the class position of those
who are on the right of the political spectrum and are the expression of
well-defined interests, allow us to overcome any prejudice towards a
right that increasingly feels capable of winning, in the face of its
increasingly weaker opponents, devoid of ideas, awareness, class
consciousness, increasingly devoid of an alternative, supportive and
generally unitary political project, built on the basis of values and
common goals.
So that the masses can unite around a political project, give their
participation, their consent to the mobilization in defense of their
interests. it is necessary that those who propose alternative solutions
to those of the class enemy are considered credible and honest, work
with humility and perseverance in supporting their ideas, demonstrate
with their behavior their solidarity and their love for equality and
freedom, which they cannot be empty concepts, but they need concrete
evidence that translates into real and actionable proposals, capable of
providing solutions to the problems posed by inequality, social malaise,
the absence of freedom, the lack of protection of the rights of the most
weak and disadvantaged. A Refoundation of the left is not only possible,
but necessary and constitutes the only serious response to the advancing
right, without making a distinction between the democratic and
compatible right and the extreme right, because coexistence with the
political projects that both these political components support brings
to the inevitable pollution of an alternative and credible management of
society, in an egalitarian direction and of social progress and gives
space to discrimination and inequalities both economic and in terms of
rights and freedoms.
Insist on rights and equality
Therefore, it is necessary to develop a new social contract that takes
into account the characteristics that Europe will take on in the coming
decades, a social contract that protects the weakest, that offers
opportunities to young people, that allows a rational use of resources,
a solidarity economy, a fair distribution of wealth, in the awareness
that the life path presents various phases that require the support of
generations between them and that the strongest and most capable help
and support the weakest and most needy.
In this perspective, the utmost care must be dedicated to the care of
minors and the education of young people, also providing for ongoing
training that can allow us to better deal with innovation, while the
utmost attention must be paid to the welfare system to allow
distribution and equal resources as possible and the functioning of a
healthcare and solidarity system of assistance and care that allows us
to deal with disability and illness without being conditioned and
seriously penalized by economic resources, allowing everyone access to
care and medicines.
Care for people cannot ignore care for the environment whose progressive
deterioration threatens to make increasingly large areas and territories
unlivable and impracticable, forcing populations to migrate and flee, in
the face of reduced life opportunities in the area . It is about
developing a strategy to implement an immense program that involves all
the peoples of the earth in the name of a new inevitable and necessary
internationalism, characterized by solidarity between peoples.
G.C.
https://www.ucadi.org/2024/06/30/tra-vecchia-e-nuova-destra/
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