A-Infos (en) Italy, UCDI #183 - Liberalism and the perfect Atlanticist musket (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The accusations of cold, at the end of February, where the 
meteorological cold seems to have disappeared, carried out by the police 
of Pisa and Florence are in themselves nothing new. As long as the 
police have existed and, in particular, since the police force for the 
"protection of public order" has existed in Italy, it has always done 
so. Hit those who protest. Or, better yet, beat up those who protest on 
a certain side. ---- Therefore, this accusation against 15-year-olds 
does not seem to bring any particular innovation. Just like in 2001, 
without going back (but 2001 was a particular year), batons are used not 
only to repress but, also and above all, to educate. The baton pedagogy, 
very popular in the 20s, serves to repress the desire to return to the 
streets.
But here, as in Genoa, there is something more. It's not just about 
educating minority protesters.
No. As in 2001, a large part of the Italian population, despite the 
absolute monopoly of information, ostracism and television censorship 
never seen before, a single horrible thought, finds itself in 
disagreement with the choices of its representatives. And don't disagree 
about petty issues or pay (a decade-long layoff often seems to hang over 
them
). No, the disagreement is about international politics. About peace and 
war. Despite those who repeat clichés and insult younger generations. 
The Palestinian genocide is too big and enormous an issue to ignore. 
Especially because, added to the war in Ukraine, it marks a significant 
leap in quality compared to the policies of the entire European Union. A 
union that has now launched into war as "normality". On the issue of 
Ukraine, where the responsibilities of the US and NATO are now so clear 
that Putin's interlocutor is directly Biden and the Ukrainian president 
is a figure destined to disappear when the war ends.
In this matter, I said, the EU's choice was, from the beginning, to 
support one of the two sides. Not even an attempt was made to impose any 
diplomatic action. And in this proxy conflict it lost its economic and 
strategic interests. In the Palestinian tragedy, however, it supports, 
except for a few voices, more due to circumstances than anything else, 
the horrible endless massacre that Israel is committing. Well, in both 
cases the population is mostly critical. This is the fundamental point 
for which violent repression is very useful.
Especially because the right-wing government (I remember: the direct 
right-wing heir of the fascist party) stipulated a tacit pact with the 
EU and also with the USA: the total abandonment of NATO's Atlanticist 
and free market policies and the EU in return of freedom of action 
within it.
The "social right" fairy tale disappeared in just a few days. 
Furthermore, even Benito Mussolini, in economic policy, adopted a 
financial orthodoxy that did not displease the "City" about which he 
poured "social-nationalist" words, at the same time that he cut wages 
and eliminated trade union and political freedoms.
Meloni's government is a completely gray and anonymous government that 
carries out the tasks of the reviled Brussels without error, obeying in 
an almost embarrassing way. It fills this void with proclamations devoid 
of consistency, if not the old idea of the "strong" state of Bava 
Beccaris and Umberto I.
Even the uncritical support for Israel, even (or perhaps precisely) its 
most racist and reactionary government ever (Nethanyau's, is part of 
this path. The fascist right, direct heir of those who sent Jews to the 
extermination camps (I remember- me that Almirante wrote in a newspaper 
called "La Difesa della Razza") is admired by the violence that the 
State of Israel unleashes against the Palestinians, who by the fascist 
right have very well replaced the Jews in the role of scapegoats for 
their racism (and, given that Israel has the support of the USA, this is 
also a good thing: better to be with whoever is in charge).
But the FdI comes from the reality of a micro-party that, thanks to the 
dementia of the left (which now stands out from the right for its more 
colorful bricolage), and to a now structural abstentionism, has gained 
an unusual power, a power that it cannot lose. He can't go back to the 
suburbs to complain.
That is why it is preparing to overturn the Constitution (also preceded 
here by the idiots of the "left"), tighten the bonds of repression, 
criminalize dissent, teach a lesson to anyone who dares.
It hurt him. The demonstrations continue and the fear (as has happened 
for decades) is that the struggles over the international issue will 
merge with the internal ones. A danger that must be stopped somehow. 
Thus, the "anarchist danger" that never disappears returns. Even the 
danger of the "anti-Zionist anarchist". There is talk of a "dangerous 
climate". The right-wing press is a cesspool worthy of the worst rubbish 
of the last twenty years, which produces articles and headlines so 
horrible that, in the 70s of the last century (when the protest was less 
"soft"), they would not even have appeared in the private diary of some 
right-handed journalist.
But the other press, the bourgeois, is no different and is much more 
dangerous.
In the meantime, one fact must be clear. The war policies of the EU, the 
US and NATO are not appreciated by the majority of the Italian 
population, as we approach the second year of far-right government with 
a stuttering and ridiculous left that hopes to return to the top after 
the Renziano coup. delusion that, in practice, demolished him.
Maybe we should go back to listening to those who go to the square and 
less to those who make distinctions in their words.

Andrea Bellucci

https://www.ucadi.org/2024/03/17/liberismo-e-moschetto-atlantista-perfetto/
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