A-Infos (en) Italy, FAY, Umanita Nova: On the anniversary of Pietro Gori's birth (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

160 years ago, on August 14, 1865, Pietro Gori was born. The following 
is taken from Gori's writing in defense of Sante Caserio, who was 
guillotined on August 16, 1894. ---- He was born in Motta Visconti, a 
cheerful village in Lombardy, to a good working family. Very early on, 
he had to face the struggle for work and daily bread. Therefore, he 
resolved to abandon the mother he adored and who adored him, and embark 
on the stormy sea of life, in which every worker must perpetually 
navigate. He then left Motta Visconti, and also abandoned the mystical 
illusions of his childhood, soon shattered by the harsh realities of 
life. In Milan, he worked as a baker at the Tre Marie bakery, where he 
worked zealously and tirelessly; And there he came face to face with the 
appalling legal exploitation of labor by the parasites of capitalism; 
and he witnessed the social injustices and the violence of a class that 
produces nothing against another that, with its blood and sweat, creates 
the wealth of its masters and only reaps poverty and contempt as the 
sole reward for its labors. It was for this reason that Sante Caserio 
became an anarchist. When I first came to Milan, Sante Caserio was 
already an enthusiastic anarchist, and I still remember the profound 
impression he made on me when we were introduced. We were at a workers' 
rally, and he went around handing out revolutionary pamphlets and 
newspapers. The very short life of this young man-he was just 21 when he 
was guillotined-has been repeatedly examined through the lenses of spite 
and hatred, first by the combined Italian and French police, then by a 
swarm of lying impostors, bourgeois journalists, paid by the 
conservatives of so-called public "order." Nonetheless, these 
unfortunates could not help but reach one conclusion: the assurance that 
Sante Caserio was a worker of the highest character. And even the 
Criminal School, so hostile to anarchists, was forced to acknowledge and 
affirm that the young baker was born an honest man. Caserio, in his few 
spare moments, would distribute among the workers near the Labor Chamber 
pamphlets and sheets of anarchist literature, along with loaves of 
bread, which he bought with his savings from the bakery where he worked, 
"because," he said, "it would be an insult to give people thinned by 
hunger printed paper, with nothing else to fill their stomachs with 
before reading; and because in this way they were able to understand a 
little better what they read." When the police realized that Sante was 
an enthusiastic propagandist, although extremely shy and modest in his 
approach to propaganda, they began to persecute him. Caserio began by 
dedicating himself to theoretical propaganda, firmly believing that 
anarchism was considered just another political party, strong and 
respected. Instead, he found himself persecuted for his ideas, 
condemned, and imprisoned. He worked tirelessly to reserve the right to 
reproach the bourgeoisie for their idleness, to call them parasites, as 
they truly are. The cowardly police insolence chased him from his 
workplace; and he became even more convinced that the powerful and the 
rich hope for everything from the submission and patience of the people, 
whom they shamelessly reward by redoubling their efforts of plunder and 
violence against them. ...While such a thirst for vengeance and blood 
was inspiring the bourgeoisie, thus succeeding in the most dangerous of 
provocations, a young man, expelled from his country by a stupid and 
unjust sentence, and harassed from all sides by police persecution, was 
walking along the road from Cette to Lyon, brooding, thinking of the 
injustices he had been a victim of and, above all, of the suffering of 
others. He bore no personal resentment against Sadi Carnot; but Carnot 
was the political representative of the French bourgeoisie, on whose 
behalf he had signed the death decree for those guillotined in Paris.
(Pietro Gori, "In Defense of Sante Caserio")

Edited by Patrizia Nesti

https://umanitanova.org/nellanniversario-della-nascita-di-pietro-gori/
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