A-Infos (en) Italy, Umanita Nova #24-25 - Case Kirk. The Masters of Hate (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Just one day after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a very interesting 
study on political violence was published in the United States. The body 
behind this publication -another very noteworthy aspect- is the Cato 
Institute, a libertarian think tank founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray 
Rothbard, and Charles Koch, all leading figures of the 
anarcho-capitalist movement, which, as is well known, is based on the 
glorification of the free market, an unrestrained capitalism, the 
reduction of the state to a mere anti-proletarian repressive instrument, 
together with the recognition of individual freedoms (especially of an 
entrepreneurial nature). Traditionally linked to the historic Republican 
Party, this Cato Institute is certainly not suspected of harboring 
leftist sympathies.

Well then, here's what the data tell us. First of all, they concern acts 
of political violence committed in the USA over the last 50 years and 
report a number of murders (excluding the victims of the September 11, 
2001 attacks) amounting to 620.

Of these 620, 391 are attributable to the extreme right, 143 to Islamist 
militants, and 63 to the far left. This tragic accounting alone is 
enough to understand what lies behind the fantastic lies of Trump and 
his followers and imitators, in the USA and abroad (first and foremost 
in Italy). When two-thirds of the victims are the work of supremacists, 
racists, fascist-leaning Islamists, and religious fanatics, the entire 
rhetoric against left-wing violence shows its inconsistency and 
instrumental nature. Blowing the murder of Kirk out of all proportion 
and using it to cry out about an allegedly imminent danger of left-wing 
subversion means, for Trump and company, preparing the ground for 
exceptional measures - far heavier than those already in place to 
criminalize immigration, accompanied by the militarization of U.S. 
states and cities governed by Democrats.

It is typical of authoritarian regimes (or those in the process of 
becoming authoritarian) to create an enemy -whether external or 
internal- to justify increasing police powers. The seizure of power (in 
the USA by the MAGA party, in Italy by FdI and its allies) must become 
permanent (DC-style from 1945 onward), and to do so it must rely on a 
constant denunciation of a supposed, propagandized subversive threat 
coming from the opposition. Let's remember Berlusconi and his endless 
attacks on the "communists" with "blood-soaked hands," referring to 
Occhetto, D'Alema, and Veltroni.

In Italy, in these very days, Meloni & company have not held back from 
exploiting Kirk's murder and essentially repeating Elon Musk's mantra, 
who, in a post just before the attack, had stated that "the left is the 
party of murder." Without fear of ridicule, Luca Ciriani, a minister in 
the current government, even invoked the Red Brigades to accuse those 
who do not bow to the memory of the illustrious pro-Trump influencer. 
Odifreddi -who dared to point out that comparing Martin Luther King to 
Charlie Kirk is absurd and ended with the saying "who sows the wind 
reaps the storm"- was publicly pilloried by Meloni herself, who from the 
stage of Franco's heirs linked her "battle" against political hatred 
with the alleged celebrations of the left over Kirk's murder. 
Commissioner Luigi Calabresi, Sergio Ramelli, etc., have reemerged on 
the stage of the government's show to counter the resistance narrative 
with that of a right victimized by leftist violence. Supporting this, 
the newspaper Libero headlined "The killer's signature: Bella Ciao," and 
Il Giornale wrote "The partisan killer." Eighty years later, the revenge 
lust of the fascist, reactionary, and conservative right appears in full 
view. And the more the memory of massacres (Piazza Fontana in Milan, 
Piazza della Loggia in Brescia, those on trains, the Bologna station) is 
renewed, the more the heirs of the Italian Social Movement strive to 
turn the tables.

But of course, that's not all. While Meloni & company denounce a 
non-existent climate of "Years of Lead," they are in fact thinking about 
the mounting climate of war sweeping across the continent. With the 
security decree they have laid the groundwork for criminalizing dissent; 
by occupying RAI and the main communication channels, they are securing 
an information monopoly; with their judicial reform they intend to seize 
control of the prosecution service and thus dictate the political 
direction of justice.

The huge expenditures for rearmament will require significant cuts in 
social spending while wages remain stagnant. This will inevitably lead 
to a progressive impoverishment of the population and carries the real 
risk of triggering a wave of social protest, fueled by a youth 
increasingly sensitive to and engaged in struggles against inequality, 
wars, and ongoing genocides.

For the government, the murder of Kirk is just the latest -in 
chronological order- media opportunity to prevent the political and 
trade union left from serving as a glue for the mounting social 
dissatisfaction. But even in this case, there is a clear inability to 
grasp the major changes that have taken place in recent times. The 
reality is that neither the right nor the left are capable of truly 
representing the people of this country. The (mostly media) war being 
waged between the two sides is an intense confrontation between 
bureaucratic apparatuses and vested interests over the control of banks. 
The real subversion lies elsewhere: in the wreckage of a failed 
democracy made of blank checks and corruption, in the depths of a 
counter-power that is maturing despite everything.

Massimo Varengo

https://umanitanova.org/caso-kirk-i-padroni-dellodio/
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