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still a cute and clever Fofi intervention, this time on April 25, a date that continues to inspire and (alas) to divide the Italians. It's hard not to fall into the rhetoric of the event commemorating the liberation and resistance, but Fofi succeeds masterfully, starting from an object of everyday life jacket Ferruccio Parri.

back, this time in paperback Einaudi, the story of my seven children told by others to Alcide Cervi, the old farmer who saw Emilia children slaughtered by the Republicans as anti-fascists, because opponents, because resistant. These memories have a unique history in some way "Soviet", inspired by some articles of the Young Communist journalist Italo Calvin, who had just written his memoirs in a partisan literary debut singular because in between reality and fairy tale, The Path to the Nest of Spiders.
Calvino visited more than once the home of the Bucks, where the old Alcide Genoeffa had taken with his wife, after the mourning, to drive a family of daughters and grandchildren of children or adolescents. On the history of the Bucks, crowned with medals, highlighted by the chairman Piero De Nicola and Calamandrei, the Communist Party decided to build a narrative model that Togliatti addressed along the lines of the party at that time: the recovery of a national tradition, a strong events that enhanced the resistance as the basis on which to build the new Italy. Even (or why) the story of the Bucks had a Catholic background and socialist, and peasants instead of working.
Luciano Casali said very well in the preface to the book as it is born, commissioned Renato Nicolai, a journalist from the Dark Shops, the party (and in fact overseen by the same Togliatti). The book "Daddy Deer" sold in a few years nearly a million copies, also because the party prepares its paperback edition to fifty pounds, the one who kept all their lives. In 1971 an unknown censor "cleaned up" badly text from references to Stalin and the ideology of the Cold War, but one that offers Casali is the original edition, which followed the logic of those times, is that a lot of Italians have read and which were moved, getting all in all a life lesson - that of the deer family overwhelmed by history and punished for his ideals - always clean and valid.
In recent years, in the wake of the great sage of Claudio Pavone on the Resistance as a civil war, so many wise and important studies have analyzed the war years, but just the second non-party fees historians, re-establishing the truth, avoiding the mitificazioni and misinformation come first by communists. And we know how much of this there is still a need, because the aura of "civil war" has always continued to weigh on this country and, though now dormant, may return to weigh. Having
age, it happened to me to cross the old Deer. I try to tell the time very much in the clearest way possible. I was nineteen years of age or make. It was 1956 (or 1955? I can not say with certainty), and the huge cinema Adriano in Rome is celebrating ten years of some great event of war. Outside there was a lot of police, because the resistance was not abundant in fashion and Scelba cops. Of those who were on stage Calamandrei remember perfectly, and Parry, sitting next to him, the old deer, seven medals in the chest.
At one point one of the front rows stood a young man - a fascist - Parri and threw a package or a can of paint, and is in full. In the general outcry, stayed with his eyes glued to Parri, and saw Alcide Cervi extracted from a pants pocket a handkerchief to those of one-time farming and clean methodically, affectionately Parri paint that had smeared his coat and hair. That gesture of brotherly or fatherly old against another, moved me to tears and never forgot it. (I do not know if there are photos of the scene, who deserved to be famous, but there were photographers in the room and certainly would be nice for someone to find each other.)
This story took me for a quick result, which I will not tell why it was this el'ammaestramento the core. What I mean, in fact, is that despite all the complicated, convoluted, tragic events of the years of resistance and those immediately following, the thousands of stories of forgetting or revenge, and in spite of internal divisions and manipulations historiography (the book most beautiful and clear up those years for me partisan friendship Giorgio Agosti and Dante Livio Bianco, Bollati & Hogarth Press, and on the literary Johnny the Partisan Fenoglio, Einaudi: three non-communist) resistance is the most worthy and of our glorious history of the twentieth century, and with that history must always be reckoned with, and always share it.

April 25, 2010 (by Unit)

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A draft response

I try to express my concern with regard to intervention Fofi below. It will not be easy, 'cause I have an ambivalent attitude to this article: it is a very clever article, which also shares its basic inspiration and the conclusion ("the Italian left has to think for themselves), but I think the dialogue (and critical) with a "philosophy of history" which does not coincide with America. It is part of a critical (matrix-Jewish aristocrat-European) as representatives of Americanism that sees Mann-Heidegger-Adorno, Baudrillard, Sontag (and others), that America and 'fundamentally the source of all (and everyone) the evils of modernity ': nihilism, the culture industry, the technology (such as neglect of) the Disneyfication of the story, neo-liberalism, etc.. etc.. It may 'well be that this philosophy of history has proved successful and as a global hegemon (the good - or bad - of the history and philosophy' that are not falsifiable in the Popperian sense: they are intuitions of the world, and as such fleeing from empirical testing). The fact is that it does not match, or do not run out of America. Just one example and out. See the average American only as a "consumer" bulimic and selfish, all intent on stuffing myself with burgers and advertising ', totally ignores the and that 'reality' and social history of a country that has always known (and knows) a practice of association and solidarity 'intense at all levels, from the beginning, as Tocqueville (in fact, that unlike all the intellectuals cited Signoroni above was basically an ethnographer) had caught. United States (especially in the Midwest), as noted by Robert Bellah, are one of the countries where the practice and the community movement and community has had an intense 'unprecedented in the Western world, marrying in a paradoxical individualism more 'anarchist and libertarian (that possession and consumption). This, in part, also recognizes Fofi, when he speaks of our "debt of gratitude to minorities Ethical Use. "The fact is that America is deep, popular, daily, stands out in this and much more from the cliche 'that European intellectuals generally attribute to it. It can' be caught by the look more 'modest' ethnographer that the ambitious of the great philosopher or intellectual, always at the bottom of the aristocratic and conservative. As he watched the late Pierre Bourdieu, "the general views are general visions.

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Dialogue (imaginary) with Fofi


The following article Godfrey is Fofi, an intellectual who deserves esteem and respect. shareability In its acumen and substantial, but the article leaves me uneasy background. It repeats after all, the point of view of the mandarins of the European intelligentsia, who have lived more democracy on the books that actually practiced. Also, do not give up the comfort firmness of "bias" of historical analysis overall, just faded in the end. It could be taken as a starting point for a reflection on the reflection of European intellectuals around the American myth, the style of Pierre Bourdieu. But there is no room for that now. Happy reading .


The misunderstanding of the American myth

Goffredo Fofi, of Unity, April 11, 2010

When you say America means the United States for centuries, it means the United States of the North, and also If Mexico, Argentina, Brazil United States of America, speaking of Americans say the U.S. "U.S." seems more correct to say that "Americans". America is a huge continent divided into North, Central and South America, with North America (excluding Mexico) of the Protestant tradition and the Center and South of the Catholic tradition but still with a strong dominant mestizo, however, that in many countries has not loved at all, and does not love his Indians.
As it is, we know that the number one power in the Americas remains the U.S., we know that, even today and despite the competition before Japan and now China, the U.S. remains the greatest world power, especially after the collapse of the USSR (and its lifestyle, its ideology), and we know equally well that the United States to first have institutionalized and then exported and implemented in the world, raising a strong resistance only in the Islamic, recently a model of society and human behavior, habits common which is commonly called the "American way of life." Islamic fundamentalism is only understandable if you think of cultures that, despite all their limitations, they can not develop inside them if not referring to the American model, American blackmail.
In the seventies, after the failure of the anti-imperialist revolts generous in almost all the planet, including therefore Italy of students and workers, and the years of the first withdrawal of a generation to itself, licking the wounds of defeat and to marry or be subjected to the "culture of narcissism", in the film Over the years, Wim Wenders, a director since then too loved (and I was personally a big pain, weakened by growing irritation, follow the inexorable decline of that lewd and lately director) tells the story of two misfits "veterans" of those movements on the road, one of whom spoke a great truth "The Americans have colonized the unconscious." But it was not only unconscious, it was almost everything.
The Americans have imposed on the world maybe the world what he wanted: the idea of \u200b\u200ban easement by being comforted and distracted by the media, which, so obsessive and redundant, let us say disgustingly ubiquitous and totalitarian, have invaded the public as private, have done the American way of life a single thought acceptable to all. The individual disappears, also said that it is still only in the act of individual consumption. This model is entered into the unconscious of all, no one can be declared free. Even the Church fell kindly to terms with the capitalist model, which is good to see the more secular and even atheist in spite of all the frenzy of his fundamentalist sects and many of its leaders, after furious fighting communism and not enough against the fascist. He resisted any institution created by World War II, perhaps taking a pickaxe today by most American of Italian, dear Berlusconi. (But to be honest, we've had in recent decades perhaps, in Italy, a politician who resigned more than a national or European models and the most pro-American by Walter Veltroni?)
few years ago, in a polished speech, "said Susan Sontag that the U.S. had spread worldwide plague, and probably of the plague this world would be dead. Despite all the love and our debt of gratitude for so many minorities Use ethical, religious, social art, despite the hopes of democracy (the dream) John Dewey and Hannah Arendt, despite the Fed's ability to absorb and integrate the long run (but after many sorrows!), its ethnic minorities, if the target moves away and looks at long-range or long, it seems impossible not realize that the "American model" - and the banks and corporations and armies that have spread prosper - will remain an enemy or a friend of democracy. In place of the individual consumer, instead of thinking the binge media, instead of opening sympathetic selfishness and even autism, instead of free advertising.
With all due respect to Obama, start to think, for the Italian left can only mean to think independently and not "American."

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