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Identity exists (but there are those who deny it)
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Of Ernesto Galli of the Loggia
Identity exists (but there are those who deny it)
Source: Corriere della Sera
Every time it decides to commit suicide, the Left knows that it can always count on those who are ready to help it get the shot in the barrel.: they are the intellectuals on his side. Who in turn know that whatever they say or do they can always count on the masochistic silence of their victim. This is the first reflection that comes to mind when reading Tomaso Montanari's long article «The invented identity of Italians» (The Fact, 10 September). And immediately afterwards one cannot help but think that on certain subjects in Italy any discussion is impossible since instead of trying to understand the other's reasons everyone repeats their own like a mantra for the public of aficionados. Montanari's thesis is perfectly expressed by the title of the article: the Italian identity does not exist. In his opinion, the term identity itself is a cursed term, serving only to fuel "the poison of identity rhetoric" and therefore to justify the "us" against "them", the doctrines of «rejection», «the concentration camps in Libya», the «foreigner as enemy» as well as obviously «the cultural paradigms (…) connected to the ghosts of Nazi-fascist nationalism", the "Italians first" and so on sermonizing. All infamies attributable precisely to the infamous concept of identity. Read More

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Becchi: «E invece io dico attenti a quei due che resteranno alleati a lungo»
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THE OPINION
Luciano Tirinnanzi intervista Paolo Becchi su Panorama N. 34, 09/08/2018
«According to the authors, è in atto un passaggio dalla Seconda alla Terza Repubblica basato su un dato che – credo anch’io – non può essere contestato. The inability of the so-called "progressive" forces to serve the interests of workers and small and medium-sized businesses, in short, of the majority of Italians. […] I believe Becchi is right when in one of his articles on the "sovereignist revolution", collected now in this book, maintains that the opposition between "right" and "left" has now been overcome by that which in my opinion sees people and elites opposed. […] I want to give new impetus to popular sovereignty. “Italians first” means nothing more than this. They left us a country with little hope for the future and with few smiles. Rebuilding it won't be easy. But I promise you that I will give it my all".
It is an extract from the preface signed by the Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, which baptizes the political essay by Paolo Becchi and Giuseppe Palma, From the Second to the Third Republic, appena uscito per Paesi edizioni (304 pp., 12 euro). A book that, first, recounts the birth of the Lega-M5s government and frames it as a definitive overcoming of the political past. Ma è davvero così? We asked Professor Becchi, first ideologist of the Cinquestelle and now closer to the positions of the League.
«Il passaggio dalla Seconda alla Terza Repubblica è avvenuto senza coinvolgere la Costituzione, therefore it is partly an improper definition, but which nevertheless tells of the exhaustion of a political process that began in the 1990s. As I write in the book, il suo aspetto innovatore è nella sintesi tra sovranismo identitario, that of Salvini's League, and social sovereignty, proposed instead by Di Maio and the Cinquestelle. Non a caso l’uno si è preso il dicastero dell’Interno e l’altro quello del Lavoro. Terza Repubblica significa avere un governo che sta facendo nascere qualcosa di nuovo, without throwing the constitutional rules to the wind". Read More

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Italians don't exist? “They fear a sovereignist wave. I say: Italy first"
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“Because they attack true Catholics, i.e. the traditionalists, as Saint Pius X said? Why We Have Faith, Hope, Charity and let's fight with a smile, we divide the world into friends and enemies of Christ and we have chosen the banner of the Sacred Heart. We love the Truth, we do not fear it and we do not hide it. If anything we shout it. It does not conform to the trend of the world? We shrug, we are identitarian, because for us there is always a sacred I don't care!” (M. Chestnut, 1/05/2018)
Of Paolo Becchi
Italians don't exist? “They fear a sovereignist wave. I say: Italy first"
Source: lospecialegiornale
“Italians do not exist and we are more different between east and west than between north and south”. It is the title of an article on the front page of the online website Corriere della Sera. An anthropological investigation that aims to demonstrate how Italians in practice do not exist as a nation. A study that made the philosopher very suspicious Paolo Becchi who speaks to The Special. According to Davide Pettener, anthropologist of the Department of Biological Sciences, Geological and Environmental Sciences of the University of Bologna, who created a bank of DNA samples to trace the genetic history of Italians, the Italian people would not exist. According to the anthropologist it would actually be "just a geographical aggregation. We have different genetic identities, linked to different stories and origins and not just those". In short, what sovereignty, we are children of migrations and crossbreeding of various peoples and we do not have a typically Italian DNA.
Becchi, therefore Italians do not exist? We returned to Metternich and his idea of ​​"Italy as a mere geographical expression"? Read More

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