#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Italy, FDCA - Il Cantiere #10: This is no time for illusions (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The work to be done is another, to unite our class on concrete objectives of

defense of their living conditions, to support and guide it in the slow process
of its emancipation. - Alternativa Libertaria / FdCA ---- Analyzing with
attention and patience what is the "theater" of Italian politics, what Karl Marx
was saying in 1852 comes to mind, which we quote even at the cost of appearing
repetitive: ---- " And they must have been struck by that particular disease that
has raged throughout the continent since 1848, "parliamentary cretinism", a
disease that relegates those affected to an imaginary world and takes away any
sense, any memory, any understanding of rough outer world ". ---- For
completeness and relevance with the national political affair we also add what
Marx was always writing in 1852: ---- "Hegel notes in a passage of his works that
all the great facts and great characters of universal history present themselves
for so to say twice. He forgot to add: the first time as a tragedy, the second as
a farce. "
We continue to repeat, for those who consider these considerations reductive,
that analyzing the subjective characteristics of the current political framework,
we are faced with its extreme poverty despite all its redundancy: variegated,
noisy and improbable alliances replicated in profusion, sometimes characterized
by extreme quarrels that, together with widespread personal ambitions, undermine
its credibility; electoral campaigns where probable majorities are announced and
in any case overrated as minorities on the other hand, in the frame of
prognostics that should "make history", but which open the doors to widespread
and interested arrogance, in which there is room for any propaganda dissertation
and unrealistic, aimed at the classes and social strata of reference to
ingratiate themselves with their consents.
"The ballot boxes are calling": the media amplify proclamations that artfully
diverge the differences and antagonisms between the most representative political
forces when, on the other hand, all these are placed in the articulated context
of the alignments of the ruling class and in its contradictory social
configurations, policies and institutions, which see the conflict between large
and small capital and between small and large bourgeoisie widening in Italy,
which fails to give itself a solid political representation in the context of the
intensification of imperialist competition between powers for control of the
world market in one scenario of generalized crisis which, with the conflict in
Ukraine, has exported the war also to Europe, crushing the European Union in a
univocal subordination to US imperialism, with all the consequences of the case.
It must also be considered that the flourishing replication of these dynamics has
infected, from election to election, entire layers of our class so that vast
militant areas at the stroke of each new electoral deadline suffer "the call of
the forest", proving incapable of a critical and self-critical reflection of the
political and parliamentary paths already undertaken previously, however
ineffectively.
With regard to the forces of the so-called radical left that are engaging in the
next electoral deadline, it must be said, in not false respect for the choices of
others and for the commitment of others, that coherence in pursuing the program
that a political force is gives, together with the other subjective implications
such as the will, the credibility, the determination of its management team and
the people who represent it together with the programs pursued, are all important
characteristics but which alone are not enough to give concreteness and
effectiveness to a political proposal overall. Moreover, ancient and recent
history demonstrates that the genuineness of the political intent and the class
program is not enough to confer practicability on the objectives that are
intended to be pursued in the parliamentary field.
Practicability and effectiveness depend above all on the ability to affect the
social relations that really exist, that is, by schematizing the relations
between capital and labor, building that social rootedness in our class which,
even in the case of the radical left with a parliamentary vocation, evidently lacks.

If this is the context, which is articulated in a situation of crisis in which
capital launches an unprecedented attack on the living conditions of the lower
classes, the institutional and parliamentary choice, albeit defensive and
declined in a tactical sense, does not prove suitable for defense of the material
conditions of our class and the pursuit of its unity, especially in this phase of
decline of bourgeois democracy and its supporting institutions, consequent to the
great processes of restructuring that have redefined the capitalist and
imperialist world order, exacerbating its contradictions and conflicts, resulting
from the concentration in a few uncontrollable areas of decision-making processes
once typical of individual states and their institutions.
We would then like to try to clarify another important aspect. Many electricians
and many voters, as well as numerous comrades and comrades of the political,
trade union and class left, fear the fascist danger in their opinion mainly
represented by "Brothers of Italy" (FdI) which, at least in the polls, is running
as first national party, part of an alignment with "Lega", "Forza Italia" and
"Noi moderati", which the polls estimate between 45 and 48% and which could even
touch, if not achieve, the majority of 2 / 3 of the parliamentary seats and thus
give way to the modification of the constitution, in a scenario that the
collective imagination leads back to the seizure of power by Mussolini on October
31, 1922, immediately following "the march on Rome".
Today the contexts are evidently different and we believe it is appropriate to
warn with respect to these simplifications which, electoral deadline after
election deadline, fear fascism around every corner, often artfully confusing it
with the alarming authoritarian slip inherent in the soft underbelly of bourgeois
democracy. , according to a historical trend already underway and not only in Italy.
We recall in this regard that it was precisely the concertative majorities, hoped
for, represented and / or supported by political groups

of the historical left first, of the "center left" then and together with trade
union reformism to undertake choices, paths and measures that, decade after
decade, have heavily discredited and attacked not only the living conditions of
our class and its historical achievements, creating the best social preconditions
for the current political disarray, but also the institutional contents of the
same bourgeois democracy provided for by the constitution, which evidently was
not enough to be "the most beautiful in the world", to effectively resist the
devastating dynamics of capitalist restructuring and the consequent "
neoliberalism ", which contracted and impoverished it: but this was possible
precisely as a direct consequence of the progressively defeat suffered by our
class, which" the most beautiful constitution in the world "was unable and unable
to prevent.
The constitution launched on December 27, 1947, if considered in the context of
the class conflict and the events that characterized it from the Second World War
onwards, is and remains a declaration of principles which, in themselves,
guarantee absolutely nothing, like the other bourgeois institutions deriving from
it, on the other hand.
And fascism is something else: an extreme card that at this moment capital has no
intention of playing.
The newly created "Sovereign and Popular Italy" list deserves a separate mention,
expression of a sovereign movement, red-brown and no vax, which if it does not
have great hopes of overcoming any threshold, however small, represents the
closing of the circle ( parliamentary) for people like Grimaldi and Rizzo,
finally lined up, as good Stalinists, with right-wing fascists and populists with
whom they have long shared decidedly embarrassing positions.
We know, however, that against fascism and populist, nationalist and racist
drifts, elections are of little or nothing, while political and cultural garrison
is necessary, as well as historical, basic activity and the reconstruction of a
fabric. social

that gives space to the practical claim of rights and to the construction and
defense of struggles, increasingly under the attack of repression and repressive
legislation, never questioned.

The ability to achieve achievements, including progressive and increasing ones,
which really strengthen the living conditions and therefore the unity of the
lower classes, of the weak and less represented social sectors for the pursuit
and realization of the requests for collective and individual freedom and
emancipation , depends not on the best intentions written in bourgeois
constitutions or enunciated in electoral programs or in parliaments, but on the
ability of our class to effectively affect the social conflict between capital
and labor, shifting the balance of forces that currently tend to totally
disadvantage it. last, to put it in all clarity.
A united class, capable of pursuing its own material interests in an organized
and self-managing dimension, is a general class which, by liberating itself, also
frees all of humanity from the slavery of wage labor, from the necessity of
profit, from its consequent devastation and from institutions. state and
oppressive that protect and strengthen them.
We then add with equal clarity that it is not a time for illusions: it will not
be a political program, albeit clear, well defined and aimed at seeking electoral
consensus, to reverse the trend.
The work to be done is another, and it is a slow and patient work of
reconstruction of a conscious and organized militant fabric, capable of uniting
our class on concrete objectives in defense of its living conditions, to support
it and guide it in the slow process of his emancipation.
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