Riccardo Paccosi

Of Riccardo Paccosi

Source: Bye Bye Uncle Sam
The ambivalences of the emerging sovereignist perspective analyzed in relation to the Italian case.
A contribution to read carefully.
I started talking about the existence of a Yankee Way to Sovereignty, more or less since I started identifying myself, from a Marxist point of view, with this political category. So, around the 2012.
Indeed, since the advent of the Monti Government's austerity in 2011, it was immediately clear that, in the face of German rigidity which directed the positions of the European Union by imposing social butchery policies on Greece and Italy, on the part of the United States there was a decidedly more elastic attitude towards public spending and the state budget. The troika that gave order to the Euro-Mediterranean governments, in other words, appeared to be made up of the “good cop” IMF and the “bad cop” European Commission.
As, many public figures who in that period and in various capacities spoke out against austerity - for example Paolo Barnard, but also Stefano Fassina - also explicitly stated the need to seek political support in the United States and in the Monetary Fund to escape from the death trap of the fiscal compact and German control over our economy.
Since then, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge.
Eight years of austerity have almost completely eroded it, among Italian and European public opinion, the pre-existing support for the Eurofederalist perspective and have brought, Therefore, sovereignism at the center of the political debate and made those political forces that have a parliamentary majority, with varying degrees, they claim to go back to sovereignist issues. Read More