Marco Travaglio
(Journalist)
by Unit of October 2, 2008
There is no day that we ask ourselves: com 'is that we have reduced it?
Because what is normal in other democracies in Italy is exceptional, and vice versa?
To answer, simply retrace the history of power in Italy without hypocrisy or autoconsolatorie indulgences.
without telling the usual tales with a happy ending.
Because the history of power in Italy does not have a happy ending. Not even a happy beginning.
Roberto Scarpinato, a magistrate in Sicily, Palermo antimafia historical memory (and therefore degraded by just a simple replacement prosecutor from reckless Mastella reform), he wanted from the Prince of Machiavelli to tell Italians to Italians in a valuable book-length interview Saverio Lodato: The Return of the Prince (Chiarelettere, pp. 347, € 15.60).
Lodato's put the right questions, Scarpinato gave the right answers.
is not yet another story of the Mafia. It is a story that explains the power of the mafia. But the decline of Italian, hand in hand with the escalation of corruption, bad politics, the malaeconomia, the eternal piduismo and massacres, the players need our family album.
A rare book that given the history of Italy as a glove and reveals the "B side" : what Scarpinato called "the obscenity of power" in the etymological sense of 'offstage' : "What of the killers is often the scene of the outside world where so many are put whitewashed tombs scene in ".
Mafia even as military "service order" white-collar "shotgun proletarian and bourgeois brain" : left without bridles when it is useful to power, but released and pruned to the sound of rounding up too when the crest or no longer needed.
The book surprises and jaw-dropping.
In another country would raise controversies and debates raging, but was quickly wrapped in a blanket of embarrassed silence. Perhaps because
down one by one all the platitudes, beyond the makeup of edifying fiction, those who lined up on one side and the other heroes of the state, at a safe distance, the monsters dell'Antistato.
Behold, The Anti here is part of the state.
Here we talk about the "death state" , its progressive "mafiosizzazione" that makes it almost obsolete, outdated, unnecessary violence of the Mafia of days gone by.
Today - Scarpinato says - we are in full 'post-mafia ".
The "open competition" is no longer that of certain members of power against the mafias: "is that of the mafias in shady deals in sectors of the ruling classes' .
of reversals illuminating as this, the book is full. There is talk of
"security" and calling "more prison" ?
But "the real deterrent to crime is not the prison: it is the shame , which in Italy has been extinct for a long time, indeed it is used to discredit honest people. It invokes the
"primacy of politics" ?
But at the liberal democratic state of law is the primacy of the law, which must bow even politics.
It is said that the Italians have the politicians they deserve?
No, it's political class that has the Italians who deserves, having shaped in his own image and likeness of the military control of media and culture, which has 'reset the collective memory ". The most devastating
pages are those dedicated to the Italian intellectuals, almost always 'organic' power, born and raised as "Consigliori Prince ', serve dispensers of imposture, superstition, revisionism, denial and conformity, always ready to betray the mission of critical consciousness and intent to justify abuses of power.
"Today 9 out of 10 Italians believe that Andreotti was acquitted and that the mafia is just Provenzano" .
"At the beginning of the process Andreotti - reveals Scarpinato - Rai was allowed to return to full hearings, but after having received two, with very large audience, the program was canceled" .
from the depredations of the Banca Romana Notarbartolo, killings of trade unionists from Sicilian massacre of Portella della Ginestra, the intrigue of the case-Julian Pisciotta to the massacres of the 60 and 70, to the political crimes of the 80s (the terrible Mattarella Greek tragedy and the Church), the processes Andreotti, Dell'Utri and Cuffaro, the bombs policies of '92-'93, while the state was dealing with the Mafia at the expense of citizens in mourning pax mafia in the long run that lasts till today, Praise and Scarpinato take us step by step into the back-shop of the last century and a half story home in a "Bluebeard's room" strewn with skeletons and ghosts, secrets and blackmail: marked by what the prosecutor called "the unresolved relationship between leaders and violence" in a country where "crime makes history" .
is not by chance - argues Scarpinato - if the Risorgimento, the Resistance, the Constituent Assembly and two years of magic and Tangentopoli Mafiopoli are now so unpopular in brackets are the only happy when small liberal elites allowed Italy to stand up beyond their average height, the levels of real democracies, except regularly and quickly slip back at the mercy of the eternal dominant indigenous subcultures, all authoritarian and illiberal: Counter-Catholicism, 'amoral familism' , 'worst Machiavellian' interest turned around particulare and "eternal Italian Fascism ' probed by incoherent as rare intellectual Flaiano, Sciascia, Pasolini and Montanelli.
why the Constitution should be so close to our politicians, who for twenty years to rewrite all the fans of: the Constituent Assembly, by a providential "alchemy of history" , dominated cultures Liberals always a minority.
An aside exceptional miracle that gave birth to a Charter infinitely more mature dell'Italietta backward peasant of the time, a "refined engineering of the budget division of powers' light years away from the dominant culture, return to power soon after.
short, trod on a tuxedo on a pig.
As soon as the Constitution began to be implemented fully, in accordance with the principles of revolutionary solidarity, equality and legality, the Prince felt the ground shake beneath his feet, and taken the upper hand quickly, "emptying from ".
The same thing happened after the 1992-'93, when the law was really the same for everyone and so the Prince could not bear it, quickly bringing to light the eternal Don Rodrigo, Don and Abbondio Azzeccagarbugli. The three national patron saints.
bitter in this regard, the pages on the normalization of the Palermo prosecutor, Piero Grasso when Casey took over.
Some glimmer of hope remains open. Illusory and never comforting. Empowering.
Scarpinato takes the leading role in the rare civil Italians who reject the status of subjects: the roundabouts a few years ago, the recent demonstrations in defense of De Magistris in Calabria, the youth revolt of Palermo Addiopizzo and that part of Confindustria in Sicily against the racket.
It shows a way: seek and demand the truth. Quote
the soothsayer Tiresias on the ruins of Thebes, and corrupt misrule: "The truth is offensive to the origin of the catastrophe .
Tiresias was blind but could see everything. The Thebans had an excellent view, but did not see anything.
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