WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, UCADI #193 - THE NEW WORLD (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 History studies the facts of the past and then tries to understand the

present by connecting yesterday and today. But understanding the present
on the basis of history is always a complex matter and it is not a given
that it works. ---- For example, the advent of fascism in Italy was
understood by very few. For the great majority it was a phenomenon that
was part of the "normal" reaction of capitalism and the State towards
the social demands of the proletariat. ---- But that phenomenon was
instead, for the most part, unprecedented. Mixing the old with the new,
socialism with reaction, the people with nationalism, libertarian
demands with the unscrupulous and rational use of violence, a strange
creature was born. Apparently elusive. Since it had grown without any
other plans than those of conquest,
and holding power, this new subject, when it came to govern the whole of
Italy, could no longer be stopped.
There were few who had seen it through, one of these was certainly
Angelo Tasca who wrote, with fascism triumphant, a text that is still
fundamental today and Luigi Fabbri who published in 1922 "the preventive
counter-revolution.
Even now we are faced with a conformation that is now international and
that contains within itself a mixture of ideologies, positions, beliefs
whose path is truly difficult to understand.
However, if history in itself cannot indicate with reasonable certainty
what may happen tomorrow, at least it can be helpful in understanding
what happened in some circumstances.
When a party leader, a head of government, a president and even the
commander in chief of the greatest power constantly uses discriminatory,
intolerant, warmongering and hateful words, more than a few hairs tend
to stand on end.
Therefore the reactions of indignation that have crossed the universe of
the international "left" are morally justified.
But with moralism you can't do politics, at most you can be a preacher
and end up, like Savonarola, burned at the stake (after hanging).
It is necessary to understand how we got to this point and if we delve
into this path, the answers become more difficult.
In the first post-war period, fascism asserted itself by fighting
militarily and with the support of the "liberal" Italian state the
workers' and socialist/communist/anarchist organizations. Which, even if
their leaders had not always proved up to the task, had to be destroyed
on the field with a bloody trail of repression and violence. Today, if
we really want to call the global revenge of the extreme right in Europe
and in the world "fascism", we must also acknowledge that they did not
need force. They won at the ballot box, often also voted by those
sectors that 100 years earlier had resisted.
There was no need for any preventive repression, nor for violent
conquests. The socialist, progressive forces, in short the "left" has
happily surrendered to the beautiful world of capital. Of course, it
didn't do it for free. Progressive liberalism was the comet that marked
the path of the universal, wealthy and cosmopolitan liberal elite.
For goodness sake, all positive characteristics, with the small problem
that they concern, precisely, a minority that is no longer capable of
even lighting the cellars except to take a bottle of very expensive
vintage wine.
Now we must not think of a sort of random, mathematical reaction. But
let's say that thirty years of abandonment of the demands of social
justice by those who should have been its standard-bearers do not pass
without a blow.
Now, however, for the first time, it is no longer the capital lobbies
that send their representatives to govern pro-domo-loro, but they have
directly taken political power by shattering before everyone's eyes: the
old liberal democracy no longer guarantees anything, not even to its own
followers.
Added to this are the outbreaks of war and, also this with a truly new
conformation, a genocide on live TV that sees the majority of the West
lining up, .... for the genocides, while the leader of this criminal
nation has never expressed a word that was one of pity for a civilian
population treated like cannon fodder.
What can I say: capitalism to the nth degree, imperialism and ferocious
nationalism, racism, mass massacres and authoritarianism.
The ingredients are all there, with some specificities:
- the absence, in the West, of any alternative proposal to capitalism;
- the presence of nuclear weapons;
- a huge part of the planet that is now looking elsewhere.
We are facing a new world, an unprecedented path where many roads of the
past seem unpassable today and in which many analyses risk being like
blunt weapons.
the "reformists" who for 30 years have ensured that the difference
between right-wing and left-wing policies (concrete policies) has been
minimal.
Faced with such a clear panorama, a radical difference would be
necessary and, if there were a little ability, not all bad would come to
harm.
This is capitalism, baby! Without the glitter and criminal smiles of a
Blair or a Clinton.

ANDREA BELLUCCI

https://www.ucadi.org/2025/01/25/il-mondo-nuovo/
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