Boboïsme et berlusconisme

L'Italie a amené à l'Europe le meilleur et le pire : l'Empire romain, la Renaissance... et  le fascisme.

Il est donc utile de savoir ce qu'il s'y passe.

Je vous ai déjà parlé de mon amie anthropologue à Rome. Appelons-la Francesca... Une fille qui connaît beaucoup de choses sur l'immigration en Italie, la vie des Capverdiens, des Guinéens, des Somaliens. Elle m'en apprend tous les jours sur la "droitisation" des mentalités en Italie, la fermeture à l'égard des cultures du Sud.

Ce matin elle m'explique (en anglais car c'est ainsi que deux peuples latins dialoguent entre eux désormais)

"The real problem now is that with this government (which reflects also on a local level, as Rome has got a fascist mayor Gianni Alemanno) money for integration and intercultural projects are fewer and fewer.

While a ridiculous amount of money is spent to celebrate Italian roots, Italian traditions, Italian identity etc etc

just one example.

In the last ten years the City Council of Rome, traditionally on the left, funded a big initiative, a festival of one week dedicated to schools who elaborated projects about integration and interculture

It was called "Intermundia", and became one of the main features of the intercultural calendar in the capital

last year the council changed its colour and a bloody fascist gained the chair.

And from this year the same festival, in the same days, will be called "Festival of the Schools "Fratelli d'Italia" (Scuole dei Fratelli d'Italia - Scuole di solidarietà) "Fratelli d'Italia" is the title of our national anthem.

The festival will be aimed at valuing the schools which have made projects about national identiy

and traditions.

My friend is Pierluigi Taffon wrote his PhD dissertation on Intermundia.

That festival was inserted in the wider strategy of the left wing Council to create an image of the capital that was inclusive and positive with migrants and other cultures. The new mayor Gianni Alemanno has a long story of participation to far right activities in the capital especially when he was young and Rome was the centre of daily fights between red and black extremists back in the 70ies and in the first half of the 80ies.

Since he is in charge he was protagonist of some discussed initiatives, first of all the campaing of criminalization of people from Romania, portraited as a people of rapers and criminals after two dreadful episodes of rape in Rome "

Nous avons eu en France des débats dans le sillage de Lasch, Michea et d'autres sur la société de spectacle, les festivités inutiles, l'idéologie bobo Delanoë interculturelle qui dissimulait en réalité une politique de répression à l'égard des immigrés et de mépris pour les intérêts du Tiers-Monde. Mais l'exemple italien montre que, quand cette devanture s'effondre, quand cette fausse gauche bobo perd toutes les élections, quelque  chose de très inquiétant peut s'y substituer... Ne le perdons pas de vue...