All the errors (historical and political) of Scalfari interviewed by Molinari
Because the political notist Francesco Damato was stunned by what the founder of Repubblica, Eugenio Scalfari, said to the current director of the daily newspaper of the Gedi group, Maurizio Molinari
Well, one is frankly stunned to read the long interview of the founder of Repubblica Eugenio Scalfari with the director Maurizio Molinari, also classified as "culture" and not politics, given perhaps the depreciation or discredit of the latter in this confusing and tormented passage of the Country, where the balance between parties and alignments, and within them, seem like pins.
Scalfari – with the silent complicity of the interviewer, interested in crediting a certain continuity of his direction with respect to the line and even the moods of the founder, if only to disprove those who instead underline and sometimes complain about differences imposed by a new line dictated by equally new property Elkann-Agnelli – has re-proposed reformism and liberal socialism as constant references of his long journalistic activity. And he returned to insert the late Enrico Berlinguer, who used to frequent at home, his or his spokesman Antonio Tatò, among the most convinced and appreciable reformists, almost heir to Carlo Rosselli and perhaps also to Filippo Turati, although the latter is not mentioned. Just as the notice Bettino Craxi was never mentioned in the interview, who also had a very hard clash with Berlinguer precisely over reformism, which ended historically and politically, according to exponents of the old PCI such as Piero Fassino in an autobiographical book, to the advantage of the leader socialist. Who saw before and against a certain Berlinguerian conservatism the need, among other things, for an institutional reform.
But memory, let's put it this way, has pulled another bad, indeed very bad joke on Scalfari. Who has returned, among other things, to attribute to poor Moro, speaking of a meeting with him "shortly before" the day of his tragic kidnapping by the Red Brigades, the project of a real alliance with the PCI "for two legislatures ”, and not a short-term truce, expressed with the abstention and then the real vote of confidence of the communists in an entirely Christian Democratic government chaired by Giulio Andreotti. Too bad, for Scalfari, who in those days Moro as president of the DC had closed a long negotiation with the PCI by barring the government door ajar instead by Andreotti and the then Christian Democrat secretary Benigno Zaccagnini with the hypothesis of appointing two independent ministers leftists elected on the communist lists.
Moro not only closed that door but also opposed the expulsion from the government of two Christian Democrats against whom the PCI had vetoed: Carlo Donat-Cattin and Antonio Bisaglia. Their confirmation caused such irritation among the Communists as to question the newly agreed vote of confidence. Only the kidnapping of Moro, on the morning of March 16, 1978, stopped the revolt in the PCI and prevented the reopening of the crisis.
In those days, according to Scalfari's memories, even Enrico Berlinguer would have already died, six years in advance. At least this, perhaps, the interviewer could spare the founder by interrupting him, or intervening later. Instead he preferred to leave it there. So much, especially in these times everything is culture, and not just politics.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tutti-gli-errori-storici-e-politici-di-scalfari-intervistato-da-molinari/ on Sat, 02 Jan 2021 07:15:20 +0000.