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Be careful, the Democratic Party is finished, the left is not

10 September 2018 by admin

The world of school, of the judiciary, of finance, of culture and the nerve centers of the State are firmly in the hands of a historically profoundly left-wing ruling class
Of Alessandro Sallusti
There is a lot of talk in the newspapers and in the summer debates about the ongoing attempt to rebuild, if not the Democratic Party, at least a credible and electorally competitive left.
The first consideration is that there is an abysmal disproportion between the much space dedicated to the topic in the media and the low turnout of the public at the various Unity parties on whose stages old war remnants alternate, Veltroni type, and aspiring new bosses, from Martina to Zingaretti. This is the sign that the future of the left no longer interests anyone, not even to historical militants, probably nauseated by the continuous and inconclusive war between the various internal gangs. What will become of the Democratic Party is a question that only nostalgic commentators now ask, intellectuals in disarray and frustrated politicians.
A seemingly de-injured country is a dream come true, and if this were the case it would be a sort of "mission accomplished" by those who have fought for decades, in politics and the workplace, to achieve this goal. If it were true, but it isn't. We are making the mistake of making the end of a party coincide with the end of an ideology, Salvini's temporary success with the definitive redemption of everything that is not left-wing. Let's be careful. This government is already left-wing in its DNA because the Five Star Movement is a neo-far left movement, as all the analyzes of electoral flows have shown. But what is much more important is the world of school, of the judiciary, of finance, of culture and the nerve centers of the State are firmly in the hands of a historically profoundly left-wing ruling class.
Who doesn't even think about stepping aside just because, for the first time since the post-war period, it was left orphaned of a solid, organized and fierce reference party. Nope, this system, survived and indeed grew despite being an electoral minority in the years of prevailing Berlusconism, he certainly won't be disarmed by Salvini's shouts or the arrogance of the fake Christian Democrat Di Maio. On the contrary, good communists are at their best precisely when they hear the sounds of battle and smell blood. Their aim today is certainly not to resurrect the now useless Democratic Party, if anything it is to sabotage the League (operation already underway) and infiltrate the Cinquestelle even further. So for a liberal there is little to celebrate and disarm, because the Democratic Party may be broken but the left is alive and well.

Actuality | Non-fiction

They were a disaster for 40 years… and now they are in a hurry. (That is to say, every time the media loves someone, this someone does damage...)

21 May 2018 by admin

Of Marco Giannini
They were a disaster for 40 years… and now they are in a hurry. (That is to say, every time the media loves someone, this someone does damage...)
Source: Comedonchisciotte

Italy is a strange country, we see "unified networks" broadsides raining down on the Government in the process of being formed and this happens precisely from people like Monti, Berlusconi, Bossi, Renzi, Study Program, Veltroni, Padoan and Cottarelli (FMI…), who since the time of the Moro murder have contributed to devastating the country, in ideology and practice, polluting its culture and exporting its well-being.

To name a few, the “Riforma Treu” of work which has brought precariousness to monstrous levels, compressing the economy and causing insecurity, the rules of entry of foreigners functional to the downward competition between Italians and foreigners regarding wages and social rights, the knowledge reforms which have weakened the role and figure of the teacher (inwards and outwards) and destroyed the civic sense of the country as well as the quality and meritocracy of the school, the contemporary and dramatic comparative flattening of the level of competitiveness of our universities implemented at the beginning of the millennium which made, moreover, i university baronies even more "expensive" and politicized, the “Divide et Impera” implemented by 1994 (acting on obsolete grudges and ideologies) which polarized Italians into "right" and "left" (theoretically appropriate dynamics) but transversally (!) given that the main division should have been between city instances (contemptuously defined as “populist”) real economic and those of speculative income, primarily those of the large financial corporations (rooted abroad) with their very powerful political-institutional-lobbying apparatus (…), the Bank of Italy/Treasury divorce, the privatization of banks and shares of Bankitalia (…), the next one theft of our gold reserve, the wild liberalizations of capital and supplies which have increased the cost of living, the emptying of the CGIL now reduced to a moribund business committee, the Franco-German financial technicalities passed off as “Europe” which have uprooted and are uprooting huge slices of well-being (tens of billions a year) with pro-bank and pro-multinational rules that have high unemployment and high taxation as their "net profit"., the ideological exaltation of globalization.

CLEAN HANDS | Policy | Non-fiction

Renzi is finished? Ok, but spare us Prodi, Veltroni e tutto quello che c'era prima

2 March 2018 by admin

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You may like it and you may (very legitimately) don't like Renzi's style. But if the alternative is a return to the old guard of the left, then it means that the Democratic Party deserves grillism and anti-politics
Of Francesco Cancellato

That Renzi is in bad shape, politically, it is a fairly incontrovertible fact. That the Democratic Party around the 22/23% in pre-bloc polls is objectively a party in a devastating identity crisis, pure. That the future of the main Italian center-left party – assuming that it will have a unitary future – must be something different from Leopolda, it is self-evident. Let no one think of it, but, to go back, to the pre-scrappage ruling class.
We say it, reading about noble fathers like Prodi who position themselves, of hypotheses of Veltroni secretariats, or Franceschini. Of returns to the fold, as protagonists, by D'Alema and Bersani. No, Thank you. If there is something that could be even more harmful than Renzi bolting to the Nazarene, it is the return of the Second Republic-model Democratic Party.
We say it by remembering – to them, above all – That the Renzi phenomenon was born precisely from a crisis of rejection of a large part of the democratic electorate towards them, of that immobile power block, self-referential, exhausted, incapable of building a political vision that was such, let alone make it attractive in the eyes of voters.
Even the Five Star Movement, in conclusion, it began to germinate precisely on the radical criticism of the centre-left ruling class of the second republic, unable, according to Beppe Grillo, to constitute a real alternative to Berlusconi and centre-right governments. The Monti government, the first great coalition, it was an all too welcome gift that produced the exploit of 2013.
Agree, Renzi has not reversed course, and the Democratic Party continued, with him too, its unstoppable fall. But if Renzi hadn't been there, probably, we would be talking about even worse numbers. Without Renzi, for example, the Letta and Gentiloni governments would have been perceived for what they really were, two inconclusive and excessively timid executives, without any idea – right or wrong – on the future of Italy. Without Renzi we would be talking about a Christian Democratic and seaside legislature, of pure management of the existing, without any spectacular failure, Perhaps, but without any planning impetus.