The violent and the ambiguous words
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Of Ernesto Galli Della Loggia – 25/02/2018

Source: Corriere della Sera
«We condemn any violence and from any source. However, we cannot help but remember that Italy is a Republic founded on anti-fascism, that our Constitution is anti-fascist". These are roughly the words of many exponents of the left wing commenting on the very serious accidents in Turin and in general on what is happening in many places in Italy. Words that precisely revolve around a formula that is felt and resented these days: ours is an anti-fascist Constitution.
He's fine. As it happens, however, history - history, I repeat, and not our personal opinions - should make us ask: anti-fascist yes, but of what anti-fascism? As anyone who has read any book knows, history records many events that cannot fail to pose some content problems when the term anti-fascism is used. They were certainly anti-fascists, for example, those who in Spain burned down churches and shot priests, anarchists and Trotskyists. They were anti-fascists who in 1939 they thought that the Soviet Union had done very well to annex the Baltic countries and half of Poland after reaching an agreement with Hitler, as were those who on our eastern border from '43 to '45 threw a few thousand Italians into the sinkholes.
Anti-fascists and moreover partisans were also those from whose association (the Empire), not sharing the underlying ideas, first the Catholic partisans broke away and then the shareholders led by Parri in 1948-49. Still: Eighteen-carat anti-fascists were also those who in the 1950s did not hesitate to define the United States as "Nazi" while not reserving a single word of solidarity, not even one, to Czechoslovakian or Hungarian anti-fascists, only a few years earlier their comrades in the Resistance and now sent to the gallows with the most unlikely and defamatory accusations by the communist regimes established in their countries. And the terrorists of the Red Brigades and other similar organizations have not always proclaimed themselves anti-fascists - in fact, they say, of the most "coherent" anti-fascism.? Read More







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