Because Cazzola rightly hailed the Reformist: too many snoring
Giuliano Cazzola has decided to interrupt his collaboration with the newspaper "Il Riformista" directed by Piero Sansonetti. Here because. Gianfranco Polillo's comment
Giuliano Cazzola has decided to terminate his collaboration with the newspaper "Il Riformista". Had it been just a private matter, it would have required no comment. In the newspapers we arrive and we leave. And no one is surprised. But this time the dissent was political, accompanied by a letter sent to the Director which we make our own and which we reproduce here.
“Dear fellow director, – writes our friend – I thank you for allowing me to write about Biagi in an important newspaper. It was my greeting to your newspaper, in friendship and without hitting the party, also because if I had done it no one would have noticed. But the Reformist 's line on peace, on the right of surrender and on the supply of arms to Ukraine, under the given conditions, ends up supporting Putin. I may be wrong but this is the moment for rearmament as Germany has indicated ”.
Unfortunately Giuliano is not wrong. Heralding pacifism against the aggressors, as was the case in the Vietnam War, is one thing. Doing it against the attacked is an unspeakable act.
Incidentally, in one of the many talk shows I have heard several times Fabrizio De André – Piero's song – or one of the many testimonies against the war. But those were, in fact, shouts directed against those who invaded and not against those who defended themselves. Those invocations were all the stronger, precisely because they took shape in the very heart of the home front. And for this reason they were hindered and often repressed by the police forces. Incidentally: when as a boy he manifested himself against American imperialism, the processions headed for the American embassy. Today, however, the processions for "perpetual peace", à la Kant, wind their way joyfully, far away from the Russian embassies or consulates.
“You know that I believe in the“ complexity ”- continues Cazzola in his letter – of politics and history. And that, despite violations of international law, of the 1994 memorandum of Budapest and of the Minsk agreements, in your newspaper I had framed the recognition of puppet states in the complexity. The war has no explanation and denotes a strategy that goes far beyond the NATO pretext. It is an act of imperialism and that's it. Rearmament is the only guarantee of peace. Otherwise there is only the way of capitulation ”.
It is difficult not to see this harsh reality. Putin's own theses prove it. We take your complaint for granted. The bad Ukrainians – fascists, Nazis and so on, you name it – who rage on Russophiles in the territories of Donbass or Crimea, to the point of justifying "a special operation", as Putin himself modestly claims. Who does not have the courage to pronounce the word "war". It would have been enough to send interdiction troops to the warmer areas. Instead of destroying Kiev – hundreds of kilometers away – and half Ukraine, where, among other things, they can test weapons such as hypersonic missiles . Which are a warning to the West. Its economic and military power is ten, twenty times greater than that of Moscow. Not to be forgotten.
“When we were young – continues Giuliano – we used to say“ better reds than dead ”. I've never said that. And today I refuse to say oligarch / mafio capitalists better than dead. The history of nuclear warfare is also a flight forward. Putin is well aware that every nuclear missile launched in the West would receive at least two on Russia. I know very well – I see Guzzanti's articles – that you would give space to different positions. But it would be a kind of tribune law drowned in a sea of pacifist articles. There is Orsini looking for another newspaper. It is right that you take my place. Thanks for these years of collaboration and friendship and sympathy. Good work and good night ”.
Now the positions are more than clear. And it's good that it is. In the past, the ability of the leaders of the Third International was that of a great appeal to the international proletariat, to hide the essence of a nationalist position. A turning point that Stalin started with extreme hardness, to make it the heritage of the entire Communist leadership group. Both inside and outside the Soviet Union. A friend sent me the photostat of the Unit of November 8, 1956. On the front page, with huge headlines: “Soviet troops intervene in Hungary to put an end to anarchy and white terror”. Almost a hundred years have passed, but the structure of the reasoning has not changed.
And here then, dear imaginary pacifists, what is the harsh reality to deal with. In the past, "the empire of evil" had at least one life too many thanks to many who did not want to see. And who, in perfect good faith, believed in secular palingenesis. Certainly not a crime, but at least a fault. Falling into the same temptation would be unforgivable.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/cazzola-riformista/ on Mon, 21 Mar 2022 20:18:06 +0000.