Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 5:53:00 GMT -5
As you know the MSI dissolved in transforming under the leadership of Gianfranco Fini into the National Alliance party. That party repudiated fascism although Fini in the s continued to say that Mussolini had been the greatest statesman in the entire history of Italy and was part of all of Berlusconis governments. In this sense since the National Alliance detached itself from its original matrix of neofascism and headed towards a process of transformation towards a conservative national right a position that is now taken up by Giorgia Melonis party. Melonis party draws on that experience and in this sense I have no problem considering them as postfascists who have accepted the rules of the democratic State and the Republic and who have sworn on the Constitution and who are inscribed in that conservative national right. Of course the legacy of the MSI is visible in the way of conceiving politics and in the relationship with adversaries.
I will give an example. in Italy about constitutional reform . Meloni Russia Mobile Number List presidentialism and addresses the opposition saying If you do not agree with what I say I will advance anyway. Obviously it is not a democratic attitude to dialogue with the opposition under this premise. He remembers what Mussolini did in when as leader of a coalition government he addressed his parliamentary opponents the socialists and the antifascist liberals saying to them But what do you want Lets agree. And they responded We dont want armed squad members we dont want violence. And Mussolini ended by saying If you dont want what I impose I will follow my own path. In this lets say there is a similar type of attitude.
Added to this is the mythological perspective expressed by some of those who are part of Melonis government according to which the fascist government was the best that Italy has ever had excluding the racist laws. This does not imply however that seven million Italians who voted for that party and that government are fascists. In fact it is not a fascist government in itself we have already said that there are no armed squad members it does not promote an anthropological revolution of society it does not install a political religion it does not build a totalitarian regime.