A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI, #181: Class is not castor oil (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In Italy, over time, and thanks to a not casually superficial use of the 
mass media, a chasm has now opened between history and its public 
use.[1] Studies on fascism, for example, in the Italian language, are so 
numerous that it would be impossible for any scholar to master them all. 
---- The level of in-depth analysis is now so detailed and precise that, 
at present, it can be said that fascism as a historical phenomenon has 
been almost completely explored. Therefore, whatever question one had to 
ask about the phenomenon, one would find, if not an answer, certainly 
some noteworthy analysis.[2]
Yet, if we move from this aspect to that of "common feeling", beyond 
praiseworthy television programs and entire thematic channels such as, 
for example, Rai Storia[3](a significant exception which should make us 
reflect on the importance and value of having a public system seems to 
enter another world. A world where hoaxes reign supreme (to use the 
terrible contemporary language) and where among the hoaxes there are 
half-truths and much left unsaid. For example, it is
almost that fundamental aspect of fascism as a class reaction has 
disappeared in the narrative (not only media, but also academic).[4]Lost 
among the thousand paths of analysis, what was taken for granted until a 
few decades ago now seems to be bound in a sort of "attic", as if the 
class conflict were a relic of history.
The work of left-wing revisionism which, for contingent reasons and the 
haste to rise away from "the stench of poverty" he saw fit to eliminate 
the class struggle from history.[5]
As if this were a subjective connotation that could be done without.
Thus, today the "lamentatio" in the face of the outstretched arms of 
Acca Larentia appears unlikely. First of all, why has that "ceremony" 
been going on for decades[6]without "left-wing" governments having ever 
said anything and then why would they want Meloni and FdI to distance 
themselves?[7]
Distances from what? From the fact that their roots are planted in the 
history of Italian neo-fascism, first as followers of the RSI and then 
(once the difficult phase for the MSI of the 70s of the last century had 
passed) throughout the entire twenty years.[8]Without materialism as a 
compass to orient oneself in the rough history of the world, all that 
remains is a kind of pro-poor Catholicism, revisited in a new-age style, 
according to which "fascism" would have been (and would be) a crime to 
be repented of and resolve with four Hail Marys and a paternoster. A 
kind of "generalized bullying".[9]
So let's clarify.
Fascism was certainly a complex phenomenon (otherwise we wouldn't still 
be here talking about it) but one of its fundamental components, without 
which it would not have existed, is its primordial nature of reaction 
against the working classes. Then there was certainly the use of the 
armed militia, the authoritarian party form, etc....but if the squadrism 
had attacked the banks and industries it would have lasted less than a 
cat on the Aurelia.
Therefore fascism was an armed movement, supported by the Italian ruling 
classes, by definition and naturally subversive mindset, well regarded 
by the dominant ones (the dominant classes exist with or without 
fascism, they may need it, but they do well even without it. Only in 
socialism they have real problems).
Violence has always been class violence. Nothing but blind and barbaric 
violence. Surgical violence against left-wing "subversion".
Therefore fascism is not a disease, but a choice of field that the 
Italian Republic, for its own survival, would have had to repress by 
force immediately, if it had been the Republic indicated in the 
Constitution.
Repress not as a "deviation", but precisely because it is an 
incompatible political option. It's not difficult to understand. For who 
wants.
And fascists are not sick people who need to be cured, or who need to 
regret their choices. So frankly we don't understand Meloni, who is a 
full part of that story (the "I wasn't born yet" nonsense that even the 
left likes to repeat, are truly the sign of a general stupidity. I 
wasn't born either. when the Constitution was approved, for example).[10]
What should La Russa say, while together with Segre (a woman who has had 
a devastating experience, but who has been overexposed in the media, 
without possessing the abilities of Primo Levi, to whom she is 
unexpectedly compared) condemns the extermination without anyone 
reminding him that are the authors his political fathers, or even, as in 
his case, even the natural ones)? She says "Absolutely bad", hugs 
Liliana and everything is fine![11]
In our country we have 3 memorial days, all completely out of phase. 
"The day of remembrance", a problem of Nazis and Soviets, that of 
remembrance, in which the role of fascism on the eastern border is 
completely erased, and that of the victims of terrorism in which the 
date chosen is that of the kidnapping of Aldo Moro and not, logically 
speaking, the bomb of December 12, 1969.
Three days in which the Italians are either always victims, or they have 
nothing to do with it and if they have anything to do with it, it's the 
fault of the communists. If these memorial days passed without a shot 
being fired it is due to the total acquiescence of the left, which, when 
in opposition seems to return to being Che Guevara, but when it governs 
it does not lift a finger, neither against neo-fascism nor against Casa 
Pound , Forza Nuova and similar relatives.[12]
If you think wrongly, it would be to say that the presence of these 
far-right forces (which are now directly in government) have become the 
only reason to exist for a left that has completely lost any compass or 
idea of another society (see also positions on Israel).
And, I would add, that anti-fascism without class struggle (paraphrasing 
Chico Mendes[13]) risks becoming just bad literature.
But, in the end, we care little or nothing about repentance or 
hypocritical distancing and, indeed, it's better this way. Let those who 
are fascists remain so, for us they are not a sick person, but an 
oppressor, and the thing is very different, also for the therapies to be 
adopted.

Andrea Bellucci

[1]https://www.deportati.it/wp-content/static/upl/sa/santomassimo.pdf
[2]It is truly impossible here to even just cite one study in 
particular. So I refer to the endless bibliographies that can also be 
found online, starting from Wikipedia, but with great attention 
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascismo#Bibliografia
[3]The "Pasto e Presente" broadcast under the direction of Mieli it has 
taken on a connotation, in my opinion, less scientifically interesting 
than the previous ones, but it still remains a good informative 
format.[4]Paradoxically, on fascism, the book that Angelo Tasca wrote 
while Regime was still alive, A. Tasca, Birth and advent of fascism , 
(oral ed. Parigi, 1938), PiGrego, 2012,
remains very interesting[5]See D. Losurdo, The class struggle. A 
political and philosophical history , Laterza, 
2015.[6]https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strage_di_Acca_Larenzia[7]https://www.linkiesta.it/2024/01/commemorazione-acca-larentia-meloni 
-fascisti-saluto-romano/[8]N. Rao, The flame and the celtic , Sperling & 
Kupfer, 2006[9]An example, right from the title, of this de-politicized 
and "mainstream" vision of fascism is A. Cazzullo, Mussolini the gang 
leader . Why we should be ashamed of fascism, Mondadori, 
2022[10]https://www.ilriformista.it/cara-elly-schlein-il-comunismo-non-e-disagio-ma-sogno-di-una-cosa-337573/[11]https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/23_dicembre_07/prima-alla-scala-trovato-l-accordo-dopo-le-tensioni-della-vigilia-larussa-e-sala-sul-palco 
-reale-con-liliana-segre-da0668d5-fdcc-49c5-8726-9c26071baxlk.shtml[12]https://www.ilpost.it/2021/08/26/sgombero-sede-casapound/[13]https: 
//umanitanova.org/l-ambientalismo-senza-la-lotta-di-classe-e-giardinaggio/

https://www.ucadi.org/2024/01/23/la-classe-non-e-olio-di-ricino/
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