Of Marcello Veneziani
Italians, join the national anti-communist registry unitedly. Become honorary citizens of Fiume and Porzus, of Istria and Dalmatia, of the Red Triangle of Emilia and a thousand other places where communism has left victims.
Become honorary citizens of many places in which the Red Brigades and other terrorist groups killed bourgeois and proletarians, kids and right-wing militants, magistrates and politicians, journalists, professors and housewives in the name of communism.
And I limit myself to Italy because if we were to take honorary citizenship of all the places on earth where communism has trampled on life, the peoples, freedom and human dignity, then we should become citizens of half the world, of three continents and I don't know how many countries oppressed by the red flag.
The initiative of The weather to establish the national anti-communist registry it is a rhyming response to Renzi and to the entire anti-fascist procession that in full 2018, indeed in full electoral carnival, decided this big masquerade party: the national anti-fascist registry, where the entire left competes to show its heroic face to challenge a regime that has been dead for more than seventy years.
“Vile, you kill a dead man", Ferrucci said to Maramaldo; a historical tragedy that later turned into farce, in the Puppet Theatre. Exactly as is happening with the anti-fascism resurrected at the time of Pinocchietto Renzi.
Anti-fascism in the times of fascism was a serious thing, courageous, respectable.
Anti-fascism 80 years after fascism, it is a pathological case of induced psychosis, it is vilification of a corpse, it is the exploitation of the dead to maintain power…
It's ridiculous and pathetic that the scrapper of the fathers has become the restorer of the grandparents; and liquidated the old left to attach itself to the very old anti-fascism formed by Anpi. Or partisan, take them away…
Why instead an anti-communist national registry? Because communism is the totalitarian regime that has claimed the most victims of all time, in multiple countries and at different times, and with two brutal peculiarities: he killed more in times of peace than in times of war and especially massacred fellow countrymen.
And again.
Because it is the totalitarian regime that has held on police terror and the erasure of every reality outside of communism: no place for religion, for the capital, for private property, for the national traditions that remained standing even under Nazism.
Because communism is the totalitarian regime closer to our time, removed a few years ago in the Soviet Union but still prevalent in the most populous country in the world, at dinner.
Because the last dictator died he is not Mussolini or Hitler, and neither did Franco or Pinochet, but the communist Fidel Castro.
Because communism was a tragedy everywhere governed, without exceptions, demonstrating that the flaw was not in the individual regime or dictator, Stalin, Mao or PolPot, but in the handle, that is, in the DNA of communism itself, in his theory even before in his practice.
Sign up to the national anti-communist registry also to celebrate the escape from danger: This year is the seventieth anniversary of '48, the year in which Italy avoided becoming a Soviet Communist Republic with the victory of the Popular Front of our home Stalinists.
Do it as patriots and Europeans, by Catholics and Jews, by bourgeois and peasants, by MSIs and Christian Democrats, by liberals and social democrats, by monarchists and even by anarchists (who were victims of communism more than any other regime, from Spain to Russia).
Also remember all the feminists which celebrate the women's vote that in the first political elections women were decisive in defeating communism and winning the crusader shield, freedom, the West (This is coming from someone who is neither a Christian Democrat nor pro-American).
If you read the text they sign to take on anti-fascist citizenship, you will realize that by changing anti-fascist words into anti-communist words, the conversation goes even better.
Among the various demerits that this initiative has of the Italian left to make a living on anti-fascism at the time of the elections (I repeat it, Anti-fascism is the last refuge of scoundrels) there is one that I would like to remember: forces everyone, us too, to a stupid and grotesque regression to the grimmest past.
It forces people like me to dig up communism; I was someone who hadn't called himself an anti-communist in his whole life - because you are anti something in the presence of something, not in absence or in memory – someone who loved to talk to everyone, including communists, one who distinguished between the error to be condemned and the errant with whom to dialogue, someone who had the respect and consideration of people who professed to be communists and paid personally, because ideology and historical-political judgment must never obscure the truth of the facts, the recognition of merits and respect for people.
And instead, thanks to the comical endings of these anti-fascists at the sales, chasing the last vote via the last veto, we are forced to dig out the antiquated arsenals of anti-communism from the attics, Guareschi's cartoons on the Trinariciuti, God who sees you in the urn and the Anpi does not, the weeping Madonnas and the murdered dead, and all the vintage, the reliquary of the past.
Communism will not pass, zaza.
MV, The weather 15 February 2018