Italy

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I do not speak Italian. I read some Italian philosophers. I enjoy Italian literature. I am sympathetic to the Italian desire for freedom from US intervention. The question is will Meloni deliver? Or is she simply a Trojan Horse? Marcello Veneziani, not in any sense a supporter of the Empire, and a man deemed far right in Italian thought, writes just before the vote-”We do not know what photograph of Italy the polls will give us tonight nor do we know if there will really be the victory of the right and its allies and we do not know if they will be up to it, but one thing we can already say with certainty: we are witnessing the failure in Eurovision , of the European oligarchies. By oligarchies I mean not only those that are improperly defined as the ruling elites who rule in Europe but also the media-institutional dome that revolves around and its peripheral ramifications, officials and gallops. It was an indecorous defeat, a defeat without honor, of a ruling class that did not know during the electoral affair, and not only in Italy, but also in Sweden, probably in Spain and a little everywhere, to express a vision of Europe,..” http://www.marcelloveneziani.com/articoli/il-fallimento-della-consorteria-europea/

Giorgia Meloni is a member of the Aspen Institute, which is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among others, and is also actively involved in the forum in Davos where the wef holds its annual meeting. So whichever way you look at it, with Meloni (who, by the way, is fully promoted by the MSM), the 'great reset' will continue, even if she pretends not to. Look at her voting record. For green pass, for vaccination for example.

From the view of the Imperialists of the West-Although she portrayed herself and her party to Washington’s ruling elites as a conservative, they have time and again refused to renounce the party’s ties to Italian fascism. When Italy’s parliament voted to dismantle the neo-fascist party Forza Nuova in October 2021—after it orchestrated a violent attack against one of Italy’s leading unions—the Brothers of Italy abstained from voting. More recently, a video of a young Meloni resurfaced in which she claimed that dictator Benito Mussolini was a “good politician” and that “there have not been other politicians like him.” The Brothers of Italy’s logo even strongly resembles that of Italy’s neo-fascist, post-World War II party, the Italian Social Movement.

But most importantly to American interests abroad, Meloni has long been a Euroskeptic; her seemingly pro-European stance, demonstrating unwavering support for Ukraine and hosting pro-EU conferences in Rome, is a recent phenomenon. Up until 2019, Brothers of Italy was a major proponent of dissolving the Eurozone and a strong supporter of Brexit. Party leaders also criticized the European Central Bank, often referring to the institution as a place of “usurers and lobbyists.” But during the 2019 European elections, Meloni ran with the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, becoming its president in 2020, and has since then made an effort to forge strong ties with European Parliament President Roberta Metsola. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/which-giorgia-meloni-will-washington-get/

Last night, Meloni began her victory speech by indicating that she saw it as a triumph of the fascist tradition. Meloni, whom official European media euphemistically refer to as “post-fascist,” said, “I dedicate this victory to all those who are no longer here and who deserved to be alive tonight.”

"She insisted that she would lead a “responsible” government and tried to use her gender to give herself a progressive gloss. Demanding “mutual respect” from other political organizations in Italy, she pledged to “concentrate on what unites us rather than what divides us. The time has come to be responsible.”

"Meloni told the press that, as Italy’s first female prime minister, her election was “a step forward. I defined it as breaking the ‘glass ceiling,’ one that still exists in many western countries, not only in Italy, preventing women from achieving important public roles in society.”

"Meloni also sought to calm concerns in ruling circles that she might make nationalist criticisms of the NATO war on Russia or the EU’s multi-trillion-euro bank bailouts for the super-rich. She emphasized that she supported Italy’s position inside the European Union (EU) and the NATO alliance, as well as the war against Russia in Ukraine.

“ 'We will be guarantors, without ambiguity, of Italy’s positioning and of our uttermost support to the heroic battle of the Ukrainian people,' she said. She also backed the surge in EU military spending and the EU’s cut-off of purchases of Russian natural gas: 'If we had an EU more like the one we imagine, we would have developed a more effective defense policy, invested in energy security and maintained short value chains to avoid reliance on other—often untrustworthy—countries for gas, raw materials, commodities, chips and other goods.'...

Augusto Del Noce wrote shortly before his death about Veneziani’s view of the Occident. Veneziani notices that Western society realizes the essence of Marxism: “radical atheism and materialism, internationalism and universal non-belonging, the primacy of praxis and the death of philosophy, the domination of production and the universal manipulation of nature, technological Faustianism and equality that realizes itself as homogenization.” The new globalist liberalism, Veneziani observes, absorbs the lesson of Marxism, purifying it of all prophetic, gnostic and anti-modern slag, and of solidaristic suggestions.

Therefore we can say that the West is Marxism’s full secularization, as well as its perfect realization. It is Capitalism that absorbs Communism, using it to erase religious sacredness and national sacredness, a goal it could not have reached in any other way.

The element of Marxism, and of Socialism in general, that remains unexpressed, unrealized and betrayed in the neo-bourgeois and Occidentalist society is precisely what was “great” in Socialism: the denunciation of alienation and the hope, which was “religious” in its own way, to overcome it. This is what Veneziani emphasizes in his final pages, observing how alienation has established itself and is expanding in Western society. https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/marxism-died-in-the-east-because-it-realized-itself-in-the-west/

I end with Agamben.

Through the formation of the modern city, or body politic, the ‘disunited multitude’ of the state of nature exceptionally constitutes itself into the people. However, when giving form and substance to the sovereign, the people contemporaneously and paradoxically disappears, leaving the scene to an entity that ‘has no political significance’ —namely, the ‘dissolved multitude,’ which ‘is the unpolitical element upon whose exclusion the city is founded.’ Importantly, this logic of simultaneous constitution and dissolution applies to monarchies, democracies, and aristocracies alike. Hence, Agamben continues, ‘in the city there is only the multitude, since the people has always already vanished into the sovereign’ as shown on the Leviathan’s cover. This passage is of pivotal importance for the correct understanding of Agamben’s philosophy and political project because it shows that, as he himself has further clarified more recently, ‘the city is founded in the division of life into bare life and politically qualified life.’

Here is where civil war enters the scene to never leave it. Indeed, Agamben writes, ‘[i]f the dissolved multitude – and not the people – is the sole human presence in the city, and if the multitude is the subject of civil war, this means that civil was remains always possible within the state.’ This is why, after his eschatological analysis, Agamben reaffirms that until the second coming of Christ, ‘the body political can only dissolve itself into a multitude and the Leviathan can only live together . . . with Behemoth – with the possibility of civil war.’ Civil war, we may therefore conclude drawing from Agamben’s Aristotelian terminology, lies at the threshold between actuality and potentiality. It lurks in the penumbra of social relations constantly defining them and always reminding the body politic of its occult, demonic origins: ‘civil war is a projection of the state of nature into the city.’ Dr Luca Siliquini-Cinelli, Lecturer, School of Law, University of Dundee; l.siliquinicinelli@dundee.ac.uk