USSR

In Prague the dear beloved Soviets

21 August 2018 by admin

FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
Like today, in the night between 20 and the 21 August fifty years ago, Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia and crushed the Prague Spring dream of freedom. They will talk about it adequately on TV and in the newspapers? They will also remember this shadowy side of '68? They will remember the infamy of those who defended them and took their side, as the Italian communists did? Or they'll say it's been too long now, and therefore we can talk about fascism and Nazism every day, dead 73 years ago, but we can no longer talk about communism, which is much more recent and present?
It should also be remembered that a part of the Italian communists dissociated themselves from the PCI and condemned the Russian invasion, as the Manifesto group did. But with a small detail: they did not dissent to embrace socialism with a human face but to pursue a much more inhuman socialism, the Chinese one, with Mao who with his cultural revolution was much bloodier than Stalin and Brezhnev. In a debate in a hall of the Chamber opened by Napolitano, a few years ago I remembered the silence of the PCI regarding the revolt, the contempt towards the insurgents and the silence of the party and L'Unità towards dissidents, come Jiri Pelikan, which was then "adopted" by Craxi's PSI. Fassino pointed out to me that, on the contrary, the PCI had supported Prime Minister Dubcek and socialism with a human face. Right, until Dubcek was in power, tolerated by the Soviet Union… But later, when the tanks arrived, and there was the revolt, an embarrassed silence fell and the orthodox thesis prevailed, supported precisely by the communist right of Amendola and Napolitano, that those who show solidarity with the insurgents are playing the usual lurking reaction game. The Italian communists aligned themselves with the Soviets, like in Budapest before, in '56, and to Gdańsk and Szczecin afterwards, in the '70s. Furthermore, we must not forget that until 1978 the funding for the PCI and L'Unità continued to come from the USSR, and the contributions from the Italian-Czechoslovak Association continued to arrive. That's how it was in '68, the Soviet tanks lost a few r and for the local communists they remained the dear beloved Soviets... Read More

Actuality | events

The structural crisis of the media system

6 August 2018 by admin

Of Gennaro Scala
The structural crisis of the media system
Source: The Antidiplomat
E’ There is a radical crisis in the Western media system underway, within an overall transformation of the political system of a global and epochal nature(1). The center of propagation of the earthquake is in the USA, but it also has its resonance in Italy, which could become an important laboratory at European level, in which new structures could be tested to cope with the ongoing upheaval. The earthquake, at the moment, It has the appearance of a bradyseism, with constant instability made up of daily controversies that go beyond the lines, but it could erupt into more dramatic movements. The transformation of social geography is already underway, What remains to be seen are the solutions implemented to deal with them. The crisis could result in a new system in which formal democratic guarantees could disappear, which could be the easy "solution" to the crisis of the "left", now more and more often mentioned (one example among many: Jason Brennan's book, “against democracy” which had a preface by Sabino Cassese, In the 2013 one of the PD candidates for the presidency of the Republic), or in a new system that instead exploits the potential of new means for a restructuring of democracy aimed at a different mass involvement, indispensable in the management of complex companies like ours.
The main factors of crisis in the media system, seen within the overall crisis of the political system are, first of all, the end of the “era of globalization”, actually a fairly short and transitory period, ended with Russia's return to the field, and with the definitive affirmation of China as a global power. The failure of globalization requires a radical rethinking of political strategies and the ideologies associated with them. The so-called “globalization” was that short period, if commensurate with historical times, in which the USA, at the head of the “Western countries”, when the USSR was already showing an irreversible crisis, they thought they could become the only world power. Context in which a globalist ideology was formed and became dominant based on political correctness, which we start symbolically with the "Live aid" of 1985 in which the Western world proclaimed through its "stars": “We are the world”. Read More

Actuality | WORLD CONFLICT

Towards the end of the West?

17 May 2018 by admin

Of Luigi Tedeschi
Towards the end of the West?
Source: Italicum
With the implosion of the West, Europe will also end?
Trump's decision to have the US withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran, with the relative restoration of the economic embargo, could lead to a rift with serious consequences in relations between Europe and the United States. Probably Trump's breakup, with the doctrine of America First, compared to Obama's foreign policy, it will mean the end of the West itself, as a geopolitical area that identified itself in the Atlantic alliance between the USA and Western Europe, arose at the end of the Second World War.
With Trump, American unilateralism in foreign policy is reaffirmed and Obama's multilateralism declines, as a phase of American geopolitics characterized by the decline of the world primacy of the USA, due to the emergence of new continental powers, such as Russia, at dinner, India and to a lesser extent Iran itself. Emerging powers have brought about the end of the era of American expansionism on a global scale, established following the collapse of the USSR.
Europe's role in the world itself has undergone a drastic reduction, both economic and political. In fact, Europe is not a unitary political institution, but only an economic-monetary union, which from a geopolitical point of view has not been able to free itself from American dominance. Therefore Europe remained strongly involved in American decline in the world, paying the consequences of their subordination. Read More

Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

The president of the European Commission honors Marx

10 May 2018 by admin

Report Roman correspondence

The President of the European Commission, the Luxembourger Jean Claude Juncker, he went on 5 May in Trier – the city of which he is an honorary citizen -, in the Palatinate, to commemorate the 200 years since the birth of Karl Marx, giving a speech in front of the statue of the founder of communism, statue donated by China. He will be accompanied for the occasion by the Social Democratic President of Rhineland-Palatinate, Shame Dreyer.
The announcement of the singular visit raised understandable questions, indignant protests: Marion Smith, director of the Memorial Foundation for the Victims of Communism, wrote a scathing letter to Juncker, remembering: «The philosophy of Karl Marx, once applied, it has generated some of the worst suffering in the history of humanity. Marxist states, such as the Soviet Union or communist China, they are directly responsible for over one hundred million deaths, result of their delusional desire to put Marx's utopian ideas into practice».
The visit to Trier by the President of the European Commission, definitely out of place, it only fuels caustic comments on the analogies between the Soviet Union and the European Union (T.M.).