WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, UCADI #168: What's new - SQUADRISM (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 There are methods that characterize some political movements beyond historical

contingencies and give them a precise connotation that places them tactically and
strategically in history to the point of making them the founding characteristics
of a political project. This is the case of squadrismo which responds to a
precise tactical choice, however, placed in a strategic project. ---- It was a
method of political action typical of a militant fascist formation, strongly
minority which, in order to establish itself, had to make its way with force,
operating within a hostile majority to fight to earn a space of existence and
legitimacy from which to start to build the 'hegemony. Not being able to count on
the strength of dialectics and confrontation, it resorted to physical force,
violence, coercion, derision to conquer the public space and dominate it. Hence
the armed assault on the adversaries, the physical destruction and devastation of
their structures, the consequent forced occupation of the physical spaces, the
establishment of a garrison on the territory from then on used as a basis for
further expansion up to the total and hegemonic occupation of social and
political life.
This same strategy, mutatis mutantis, is being implemented today by the
neo-fascist "youth" organizations linked to the majority party in government
which, on the strength of the electoral result achieved and occupying the
institutions from above, now extends the mantle of hegemony downwards up to to
cover every space and to create that new style black shirt to be gradually worn
by the whole society.
Moreover, the new fascism must operate in a completely changed society compared
to the one in which it found itself operating at its first experience. It is an
open and chattering, fluid society, crossed by a thousand sensitivities and
impulses, but for this or precisely for this reason it is potentially ready to be
filled with content, because it lacks antibodies capable of repelling infection.

The inverted pyramid

And here then that, once the top of the state and the country's government have
been occupied, operations begin with a concentric maneuver from the top and
bottom of the pyramid and, while with the state police forces and the laws, the
raves are repressed through a special decree, illegal immigrants gathered at sea
are left to rot on ships, choosing the furthest port for them, public health care
and schools are progressively dismantled, the myth of merit is spread and the
myth of humiliation and suffering, students are attacked, forcing them to undergo
the distribution of fascist and racist propaganda, reiterating that the
information space in front of the schools belongs to them.
In this way society is gripped in a vice which from above pushes through the
forthcoming revision of curricula and programmes, on the other side it
disarticulates the government of the educational institutions of the Republic
through differentiated autonomy, and at the same time forces with it forces the
students to consider normal, to tolerate until they accept the organized presence
of the gangs.
We are faced with the modern and current version of squadrismo, partially
different in the methods used, but substantially identical in goals and methods,
with the aim of making political hegemony stable, permanent and transmissible,
which should translate into a profound colonization of formation of young people
and in an inculturation through values, such as those of force, violence,
supremacy, obedience.
In this perspective and from this point of view, the beatings - like the one that
took place in front of the Liceo Michelangelo in Florence - are functional and
didactic, they have a pedagogical value. Humiliation is functional to reduce
obedience, as well as fear. Sneer and mockery satisfy and facilitate the goal:
mortification and silence.

Repel the attack

It is for all this that in front of schools and in schools as well as in the
squares, the anti-fascist vigilance of student groups, supported by teachers and
parents, ready to resist the fascist attack, returns to the present day and
responds to a state of necessity. contrasting the occupation of physical spaces
and political practicability to a right that, strong in the support of 20% of the
voters, claims between disengagement and general disinterest, to impose itself,
taking advantage of blindness, obtuseness and insipience of a social and class
left that has lost its cultural and political references.
We need to start from the bottom!!!

http://www.ucadi.org/2023/02/21/cosa-ce-di-nuovo-squadrismo/
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