Of Roberto Siconolfi

Source: Roberto Siconolfi

In the 2018 almost a century later, talk about anti-fascism, in the absence of fascism it almost seems embarrassing if it weren't tragic. In such a complete and refined system, such as EU neo-totalitarianism, anti-fascism is to all intents and purposes a tool in the hands of the elites to perpetuate their domination. Among other things, now that there is an increased level of popular awareness on the modus operandi of the strong powers, including divide and conquer techniques, here's the mainstream going full steam ahead, intelligentsia, and social democracy arm the hands of "anti-fa radicalism".

We remember that already in the 60s and 70s with Operation Gladio the centers of political power, more or less occult, groups of the extra-parliamentary left or right alternately moved to implement certain government plans. However, critical voices and interesting experiences already existed at the time, albeit small ones who tried to overcome certain barriers, in the name of a broader anti-system struggle. Let's take the beginnings of the Student Movement for example, or Pasolini's lucid analyzes on anti-fascism and defense of the police.

Today the whole strategy of opposing extremisms is back in vogue. Financial and globalist oligarchies laugh when people clash over misleading issues such as Italian racism or alleged homophobia, or other minor ones such as corruption and the economy not restarting for this or that reason.

To escape this delirious game with greater wisdom, among the anti-establishment forces, there is Casapound and Lista del Popolo. The situation has worsened considerably in recent times, in particular from the tragic murder of poor Pamela by a group of Nigerian criminals, with the barbaric equivalent of the subsequent massacre. So from there, almost like a zero-sum game, acts of political violence have alternated in the name of opposing extremisms. And we had vile beatings and clashes with the police all in the name of democracy and anti-fascism, and alleged stabbings, that of a representative of Potere al Popolo and a fire at the Social Center of Brescia.

In the final analysis, the strategy of bringing sectors of the masses into conflict in the name of ideological fetishes was a perfect success..

Certainly the whole question of militant or employer anti-fascism deserves in-depth reflection, peaceful or violent. It is truly the ultimate argument that a certain political class has at its disposal to raise its personal grievances, but worse still to hide one's own faults and shortcomings.

And we're talking about the Democratic Party and its allies, but more generally of all that diversified "political" apparatus, lobbying and cultural” linked to the moderate and radical “new social democracy”.. From the heights of an alleged moral superiority and a never understood possession of cultural hegemony, they pontificate, they decide who should speak or not, and which themes and topics are worthy of debate and information dissemination.

It's terribly sad to see these old people, not in a registry sense, keep the best of the nascent Italian intellectuality blocked, who no longer feels the need to refer to anti-fascism. This is a theme wisely set aside even by important sectors of Italian Marxism, the real one, and let's think only of Costanzo Preve, but also to the final reflections of Giulietto Chiesa, or to the appropriate distinctions made by Marco Rizzo.

Wanting to analyze the entire hierarchy of our anti-fascism, we find: idiotic former partisans who would still like to influence the course of events; important elements of the PD and its power system who use anti-fascism as the last lever of consensus; groups of young people who, based on the new "American-style" antagonistic fashion, vent their resentments against easy targets.

Then on the meaning of anti-fascism in its entirety, a reflection would be the time to do it. What is the point of declaring oneself as such in the absence of a regime that qualifies with this name has not yet been understood. It's not a question of being on one side or the other as the choices of the twenty years or '43 dictated, and already the divisive and tragic effects of anti-fascism, as well as anti-communism, they came out in the 60s and 70s.

After all, why fossilize yourself on a historical fact from about a hundred years ago? Then one might feel pro-imperial, going back to the First World War, or Ghibellines, going even earlier, and make it an idea towards which to normalize political life or commit violence. It will be called the constitution... this paper is counterfeit on all its sides, especially in economic matters, introduction of balanced budget, of labor policies, art 1, and transfer of political-military sovereignty, NATO issue.

The need, actually, it comes from those categories listed above who must defend their privileges and guarantees, economic and cultural, and who use this bogeyman to do so.

Today, we repeat it, the matter is useless and misleading, and by reinterpreting Marx they seem to have gone so far beyond farce as to return to the point of tragedy.