They don’t make peace with the past, let alone with themselves. Some progressives are stuck in the seventies and it is clear from the words with which they address the current government. Talk about “black wave“, Of “post-fascism” and Roman greetings, dusting off an ideological paraphernalia projected backwards from everything. Meanwhile, current events impose far different urgencies. And then there are also those leftist intellectuals who, to Giorgia Meloni and his executive, set about digging up what was, however preparing a partial and one-way story. The review published by Gad Lerner on today’s pages of Everyday occurrence seems to fit into this case.
Msi, Lerner’s biased examination
In his article, the former TV host went into a excursus between ex MSI, extremism, and “black flowers“: the dialectical attempt was, once again, to pull Giorgia Meloni by the jacket with respect to a political history that the left would like to rewrite in its own way. Lerner, in particular, started from the words of the leader of the Brothers of Italy , which in recent months had defined the Msi “a party that had the role of ferrying towards democracy millions of Italians who had emerged defeated by the war…“. And again, a movement that “played a very important role in fighting the political violenceterrorism (…) He had the responsibility of accompanying people who otherwise would have made different choices“. All shareable. After all, Almirante’s party also participated in the election of presidents of the Republic, incardinating itself in democratic dynamics.
But for Gad Lerner, still today, this is not enough. “This benevolent definition of a virtuous MSI ferryman of post-fascists towards a democratic right-wing clashes with too many factual circumstances“, wrote the journalist, recalling for example when some MSIs praised the colonels in Greece. You know what a discovery. The same Maurice Gasparrithen a MSI militant, had effortlessly explained and contextualized those slogans as follows: “We didn’t hate democracy… It seemed to us that those dictatorships were an extreme but necessary response to the advance of communism in the world. I know it sounds crazy, but back then there were military, paramilitary or neo-fascist regimes in Turkey, in Greece, in Portugal, in Spain, where Franco was still alive“. Reading the past with the eyes of the present is always a mistake and in this sense Lerner’s sermon also comes from wrong pulpit.
The years of Lotta Continua
The former TV host was in fact a militant of Fight continues, an articulated reality that knew closely the risks of left-wing extremist tendencies. Moreover, many who escaped from that movement even passed to red terrorism. “I can testify that Lotta Continua also worked (not without risks and accusations of treason) to prevent hundreds of other young people from taking the path of armed struggle“, wrote Lerner on the Fact, invoking a severity in the analysis of the issue. It is a pity that the journalist is particularly severe with the stories of others and seems more lenient with the equally complex one of the left. “Giorgia Meloni was not born yet, but this does not authorize her to sweeten the history and ideology of the party she chose to join at a very young age“, thundered Gad, specifying that “when she enrolled at the age of fifteen in the Youth Front, Giorgia Meloni entered into relations with militant protagonists of that violent season“.
And so what? Even the militants of Lotta Continua entered into relations with the leader of the movement Adriano Sofri, later sentenced to 22 years in prison as instigator of the Calabresi murder and now (after serving his sentence) a free man. According to Lerner, however, having to do “self-analysis“should be today’s right.”The generation that was an anti-system rebel and now likes to call itself the ‘Tolkien generation’ should find the courage of self-analysis“. And even today, the left does its self-examination tomorrow. In his article, Gad also noted: “Today ‘comrades’ is no longer used, at least in public. We prefer to blur the past by resorting to the more neutral ‘patriots’…“. In reality, Meloni just in recent days had explained the importance of saying today “patriots” without derogatory or instrumental meanings with respect to that term. On the other hand, some on the left continue to call themselves comrades with a certain complacency. Who knows, maybe the journalist will also deal with them in a future examination.
2023-06-09 10:17:00
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