A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI #186 - Between old and new right (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The elections for the European Parliament saw the affirmation in many 
European countries of right-wing political parties and formations that 
had already appeared in their respective countries, in some cases 
managing to form the government majority. There are currently 6 European 
states governed by the right: Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Finland 
and the Netherlands; consistent statements have come from the same 
orientation in Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal and France. But despite 
the electoral success, the votes collected were not sufficient to allow 
these parties to reach a majority in the European Parliament and or to 
allow them to assume enough strength to influence the majority that will 
have to elect the new Commission and direct the work of the Parliament. 
However, when it happened, it constitutes a phenomenon that must be 
investigated and understood because, although these parties refer to 
fascism and Nazism and re-propose many of their proposals and reflect 
their characteristics, their programs present peculiar elements of 
novelty and towards them seems to be falling every
preclusion by democratic and liberal forces. Eighty years after the end 
of the Second World War, in the memory of the people, the memory and 
knowledge of the horrors that fascism and Nazism have sown seems to have 
been erased and a new narrative seems to impose itself, accompanied by 
ignorance of what was and supported from the oblivion of memory, 
sweetened by narratives and memories.
Due to the effects of that mechanism which induces generations to search 
for their own identity and to feel entitled to the right to rewrite 
history, the new generations of Europe think they are free to accept a 
narrative of what has been, rewritten by the vanquished and , exploiting 
the sympathies that the losers arouse and the mistakes that the winners 
make, seem to want to accept the idea that it is possible that what 
fascism and Nazism advocated in the past is perhaps the best solution 
also for the problems of the present.
Therefore, thanks to these mechanisms, the past is cleared through 
customs, even in the minds of the heirs of those who were the main 
victims of that period of history, and fascism and Nazism make their way 
among the lower classes, among those belonging to ethnic minorities, 
even in members of the Jewish people.
In reality, this is not a new phenomenon because adhesion to fascism and 
Nazism, then as today, is based on a false awareness of one's class 
position, belonging to the dominant classes, has as its distinctive 
character proximity to power and to money and all this does not exclude 
Jews like anyone else; and therefore it is not surprising that
among the new fascists and Nazis there are, as in the past, members of 
the Jewish communities, frightened and driven towards these ideologies 
by the conflicts taking place in Palestine and by the ongoing clash, 
which sees two Semitic populations, the Jewish and the Palestinian, 
competing for domination over a single territory which is seen as 
exclusive, from which to exclude the other, with methods and behaviors 
on both sides, which trace the indiscriminate ferocity of Nazism and 
Fascism and have no hesitations in the face of its implementation of a 
genocide.

An iridescent right

The rebirth of the right was inaugurated by the blindness of the 
politics of the democratic establishment of the self-styled democratic 
and liberal parties, supported by the parties of the reformist left, now 
devoid of any ideology and any project for a future society. No longer 
possessing tools for analyzing class relations and power structures, or 
rather being convinced that there is no alternative to the absolute 
domination of economic and financial capital, these parties have 
accepted the defeat of the values of equality and solidarity and have 
chosen to place themselves within the inter-imperialist clash, engaging 
in conflicts such as the one for the control of Ukraine, without 
realizing that they are called to take part in a clash that is contrary 
to their material interests and those of the peoples they inhabit. The 
European territory.
The war, this war, is resolved and developed in the conflict between two 
autocracies, equally oligarchic, which defend opposing interests and 
which in the name of these send entire peoples to the massacre, in this 
case both the Ukrainian and the Russian ones, in the name of a 
reconstructed patriotism and nationalism, exploiting hatred, pain and 
violence to practice religious persecution and deny the very principles 
for which they say they are fighting.
They feast on these dead, fattening their portfolios of orders for 
military expenditure and for the reconstruction of a destroyed country 
which has seen its population dispersed, reconstruction limited to 
material goods and therefore only partially possible, of what they have 
destroyed, transforming the conflict in a tempting opportunity for 
future profits.
The parties of the right have cunningly taken it upon themselves to 
gather the dismay and protest towards what is happening, the opposition 
of the people to seeing their own resources squandered for military 
expenditure, for the production of weapons, for a policy of death and 
they are unexpectedly become supporters of peace, taking advantage of 
the fact that the progressive and left-wing parties - which by their 
nature should have taken responsibility for the rejection of war - are 
silent when they do not actively participate in the war mobilization and 
the banquet over the dead.
In this way the right-wing parties have acquired a positional income 
which they take advantage of to introduce, through the management of 
power, profound changes to the protection of people's rights, increasing 
inequalities, the exploitation of man by man and woman, reintroducing 
values, ways of thinking, such as those that characterize patriarchy, 
reintroducing religion as a function of controlling the masses, 
legitimizing the persecution of religion, when the confessions that 
manage believers do not support their positions, and above all by 
introducing a distribution of wealth , characterized by inequality and 
imbalances, which enhances the living conditions and well-being of a few 
to the detriment of the standard of living of many.
The result is the redesign of society and social relations between 
classes according to an authoritarian model, which denies rights, which 
exalts arbitrariness, which favors the strongest, those who have greater 
economic and material resources, and are therefore in able to exercise 
power, imposing their choices on others and to live in an unequal world 
where the difference in opportunities reigns supreme, where selfishness, 
nationalism and hatred prevail over solidarity.
This redesign of the regressive society can only be overcome by 
developing and planning a new beginning that needs extreme clarity in 
the vision of relationships between classes. since nothing will be 
spared, every mistake will weigh like a boulder, bearing a very high 
price that will have to be paid to regain the trampled freedoms. To 
still hope that, as happened in the past in France, the ad exclusion 
principle aimed at expelling fascists and Nazis from power functions to 
guarantee the maintenance of democratic freedoms, to think that a 
"democratic" and a fascist right can exist, is an illusion. , and this 
is because fallacious memory has erased the shame of what has been, to 
the point that the interests arising from the class position of those 
who are on the right of the political spectrum and are the expression of 
well-defined interests, allow us to overcome any prejudice towards a 
right that increasingly feels capable of winning, in the face of its 
increasingly weaker opponents, devoid of ideas, awareness, class 
consciousness, increasingly devoid of an alternative, supportive and 
generally unitary political project, built on the basis of values and 
common goals.
So that the masses can unite around a political project, give their 
participation, their consent to the mobilization in defense of their 
interests. it is necessary that those who propose alternative solutions 
to those of the class enemy are considered credible and honest, work 
with humility and perseverance in supporting their ideas, demonstrate 
with their behavior their solidarity and their love for equality and 
freedom, which they cannot be empty concepts, but they need concrete 
evidence that translates into real and actionable proposals, capable of 
providing solutions to the problems posed by inequality, social malaise, 
the absence of freedom, the lack of protection of the rights of the most 
weak and disadvantaged. A Refoundation of the left is not only possible, 
but necessary and constitutes the only serious response to the advancing 
right, without making a distinction between the democratic and 
compatible right and the extreme right, because coexistence with the 
political projects that both these political components support brings 
to the inevitable pollution of an alternative and credible management of 
society, in an egalitarian direction and of social progress and gives 
space to discrimination and inequalities both economic and in terms of 
rights and freedoms.

Insist on rights and equality

Therefore, it is necessary to develop a new social contract that takes 
into account the characteristics that Europe will take on in the coming 
decades, a social contract that protects the weakest, that offers 
opportunities to young people, that allows a rational use of resources, 
a solidarity economy, a fair distribution of wealth, in the awareness 
that the life path presents various phases that require the support of 
generations between them and that the strongest and most capable help 
and support the weakest and most needy.
In this perspective, the utmost care must be dedicated to the care of 
minors and the education of young people, also providing for ongoing 
training that can allow us to better deal with innovation, while the 
utmost attention must be paid to the welfare system to allow 
distribution and equal resources as possible and the functioning of a 
healthcare and solidarity system of assistance and care that allows us 
to deal with disability and illness without being conditioned and 
seriously penalized by economic resources, allowing everyone access to 
care and medicines.
Care for people cannot ignore care for the environment whose progressive 
deterioration threatens to make increasingly large areas and territories 
unlivable and impracticable, forcing populations to migrate and flee, in 
the face of reduced life opportunities in the area . It is about 
developing a strategy to implement an immense program that involves all 
the peoples of the earth in the name of a new inevitable and necessary 
internationalism, characterized by solidarity between peoples.

G.C.

https://www.ucadi.org/2024/06/30/tra-vecchia-e-nuova-destra/
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