The horns of Renata and mutations of the company
Who had any ability to analyze the symbols would be sufficient that the image of Renata Polverini in the square, a short step from victory, it exhibits red horns and a croissant. It shows perfectly the provincial and plebeian face of the overwhelming victory of the right, not only in Lazio. Therefore, it is sufficient to dwell on that picture to capture the anthropological mutation suffered by the Italian company . A mutation which also includes the blast from the past: the return of the typical features of the biography of the country - the indifference, the plebeismo, individualism, the neglect of democracy, the weakness the spirit, the contempt of culture and intellectuals - in the framework of structural change supermodernity neoliberal and globalized, and reactions to it. The Lega is in fact primarily a reaction to globalization: protectionism and the exaltation of localism, solicitation spirit plebeian rejection of cultural diversity, socialization of popular resentment, which will give direction to scapegoats.
The reasons for the defeat of the center-left and even more of you want an alternative, with the exception of the result of Puglia, are first unable to understand and analyze this mutation. Do not be understood or wanted to understand at the time that the Northern League was exerting a mass education for the masses is the greatest sin of the left. The workers voted for the Lega Nord is not despite, but precisely because it is the employer of xenophobia, which promises to defend their interests against those of metics. But this argument, which seems elementary to us, obviously not for the left-wing forces, with minor exceptions. Otherwise, and if nothing else for it, would take the battle against racism as strategically as one of the two pins-l 'other is defending the rights of all workers, citizens and metics-groped for forms of class recomposition, as would have said once. Do not be contrasted with the Northern League to try to build another and another narrative pedagogy, it underestimated or even smug and has imitation meaning today's result, namely the realization of the convergence between the company and society of the spectacle " masters in our house, "between the media power of Berlusconi's party and the creation of mass political entrepreneur of racism. It is an objective convergence fragile, paradoxically, a harbinger of a breakdown. The secession of the North (not just the North East) no longer needs to be proclaimed or threatened: it is in fact. Piedmont, the region-a symbol of working-class history, now ruled by a lawyer League, tells not only of the transformations undergone by the working class, but also of the hegemonic force of the League's culture, beyond the Northern League itself.
"Yes, our world has been revived, I feel that our arguments have again taken. The country is tired of the eternal story of Berlusconi." Bersani said so on the eve of the election results. An impressive foresight, there is only say. So a basic task that the onus is on the left is first and foremost take care of your delusional syndrome: delirium is, properly, loss of sense of reality. Then come back to observe the reality, take note, try to analyze it. To change , at least a little.
Annamaria Rivera
(from http://www.ilmanifesto.it/archivi/commento/anno/2010/mese/03/articolo/2544/)
