Of Lorenzo Chialastri

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Let's start from the belief that the truth is in everything, as Hegel teaches, therefore also in its necessary internal contradictions.
Anti-fascism, as well as neo-fascism, ignores all of this, transforming fascism into an archetype that is what others have decided for him. A single evaluation is necessary, certainly not for a rehabilitation intention, but only to have an extra weapon for a correct interpretation, not from the past, but of the present that, this being the case, he weighs much more because he is drugged.
For this reason, the meaning of the term fascism as evoked by anti-fascists is particularly illuminating.
Its use is independent of historical evaluation, as well as from a political or philosophical one, its use is not even that of a simple denigrating adjective, but it is an investment to always guarantee the right to existence and reason. It even ignores space-time, even from a Manichean perspective, as if fascism, as Absolute Evil, had always existed. A cesspool in any case to be contrasted with one's own self-referentiality. In his presence, everything seems to vanish, from colonialism, to the slave trade, to the extermination of the American Indians, to the genocide of Tasmanians, even exploitation seems so bearable in the face of fascism, Ricardo's "bronze law of wages" ends up coinciding with a platform for contractual renewal.
Anti-fascism becomes the good dress that gives super powers, a means to become a champion. Already out of class, anti-fascism is so powerful that not only Giovanni Gentile is disappearing, but also Karl Marx and Antonio Gramsci.
The gravity of such a liturgical investiture lies entirely in the inauthenticity of anti-fascism.
At first glance, such a system, so shared that it will never be questioned by anyone again, it would seem to pave the way for its users, an a priori which is equivalent to putting oneself on the side of the good, while the bad ones, the others, on the other. An illusion of being the judge of the rules of life to "win easily", but in the long run, abstractions that last too long always have the merit of calling their blind supporters to account.
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Until 1936, despite everything, fascism at the PCI, at least not everything, it shouldn't have looked so horrible, seen "The appeal to the brothers in black shirts" signed by sixty Party leaders, including Togliatti. In the same year, Stalin's purges and the trials of Trotskyists began.
With the Spanish war we witnessed perhaps the first attempt to use anti-fascism as if it were a weapon, and this time the use made of it is certainly political. The anarchist and Trotskyist comrades of the POUM are massacred because they inexplicably put themselves in the pay of fascism according to the accusation. The slanderous format, of a single mask to put on the faces of all enemies, it is also being tested elsewhere, always with good results. There are fiery pages on the Unity, we are in January of 1944, who invite us to crush all infiltrators, always trotskyists, have now become the fifth column of Nazi-fascism. The message was probably also addressed to the largest partisan group in Rome, il Movimento Comunità d’Italia riunito sotto il quotidiano Bandiera Rossa That, cosa da non crederci, era più diffuso de the Unity. Il gruppo Bandiera Rossa era distante anni luce dal CLN, cosi come dal PCI, in quanto antimonarchico, antibadogliano, ma soprattutto avrebbe voluto non consegnare Roma agli Alleati, ma bensì proclamare “La Repubblica Romana dei Lavoratori”. Stranamente questi compagni, malgrado il loro grandissimo contributo alla resistenza, non appariranno negli annali della epopea dell’ANPI, mentre molti di loro moriranno sotto le provvidenziali raffiche naziste delle Fosse Ardeatine.
Fondamentale è il documento di chiusura della III Internazionale comunista, maggio 1943, in it the concept of socialist revolution explicitly disappears, giving way to the need to join the "anti-fascist bloc".
Bordiga, another founder of the PCI, he had the opportunity to affirm that the worst thing that fascism had produced was precisely anti-fascism, the pompous anti-fascism that also embraced the hated bourgeois enemy.
To Bordiga's statement, he will echo it more than half a century later, confirming the deadly embrace with the class enemy, that of Costanzo Preve when he said that only anti-fascism was worse than fascism. Between the two communists, just a few glimmers of clarity, first of all that of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
The inauthenticity of anti-fascism lies in its being anti-historical and non-contextual, therefore not an antithetical moment to oppose to his statement, but an opposition that becomes evanescent because doing so does not contemplate the moment of the real thesis and consequently that of becoming in the synthesis. His claim to necessary authenticity will then pass exclusively to seeing in anyone else, the one outside himself, a fascist.
This is no longer a single mystifying use of the term, but this becomes an omnivorous pseudoideological platform, therefore capable of proceeding with a process of genetic metamorphosis.
The removal of the historical mission of the social body, sedated by anti-fascism over time, it was slow but steady, until it is complete. Dallo scambiare il socialismo per un riformismo che nel suo procedere non aveva neanche più il coraggio di nominarlo, fino al rendere inutile tutta la critica marxiana al capitalismo.
Mentre l’orchestrina intonava “Bella Ciao”, si scoprivano nuove icone sovrastrutturali, da Kennedy ad Obama, da Blair a Clinton, da Paolo di Tarso a Papa Francesco, da Macron ad Juncker, dalla troika alla NATO, da Chicco Testa a Vladimir Luxuria.
La globalizzazione diventa l’internazionalismo realizzato, il meticciato è la società senza classi, il consumismo la distribuzione della ricchezza, il precariato altro non è che un’opportunità.
And then, in fase oramai matura, al dogma dell’antifascismo, si può affiancare con orgoglio il dogma del neoliberismo, the long-awaited struggle for freedom and social justice can finally be reflected in the freedoms of human rights and equal opportunities that the market offers to all.
In conclusion, the obscenity of anti-fascism lies entirely in having abandoned Socialism, even if it were an achievable dream of the not yet, instead focusing uncritically on this presumptuous moment considered eternal in which nothing is missing. This was the true profound power of this inauthentic anti-fascism, but also his greatest and indelible fault.
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