Cunning and truffling on the Scurati-Rai hut
What is said and what is not said about the Scurati-Rai case. Damato 's italics for the newspaper Libero
I try not to fall into the double trap of the blackout of which Antonio Scurati felt himself the victim, naturally supported by his literary and political supporters, and of the consequent anti-blackout staged to propose a black-shirted Rai again. And to avoid a reasoned objection that Scurati deserves as a novelist, historian, essayist, commentator and so on about the way to celebrate the tragedy of Giacomo Matteotti a hundred years later, and close to the liberation celebration of April 25th: l The man to whom Elly Schlein preferred Enrico Berlinguer , on the fortieth anniversary of his death, to practically name the Democratic Party in his name. And print the photograph of his eyes on the 2024 registration cards.
Giacomo Matteotti, dear Scurati, was physically killed by the fascists, with the bold claim of Benito Mussolini in Parliament, but he had already been metaphorically wounded to death by the maximalists with the substantial expulsion from the socialist party fascinated by the communist revolution. He had ended up, with that story, in what not I but Antonio Gramsci had defined as "the semi-fascism of Amendola, Sturzo, Turati", to be destroyed like the "fascism of Mussolini and Farinacci".
These are words, my dear or yours Scurati, for anyone who should read them without sharing them, which I borrowed from a recent review by Walter Veltroni, in the Corriere della Sera , of Antonio Funiciello's beautiful book on Matteotti – Tempesta – published by Rizzoli .
“For divisions, ideological reflexes, inability to analyze and distinguish, to do politics. Funiciello recalls – we read in Veltroni's review, fortunately returned from politics to journalism, novels, cinema and so on – a speech by Gramsci, who will also be a victim of fascism, in which everything is put on the same level, indicating as the objective – precisely – "overthrowing not only the fascism of Mussolini and Farinacci, but also the semi-fascism of Amendola, Sturzo, Turati". And Giacomo Matteotti.
I abuse Veltroni and his review, so to speak, also to remind him again that "Matteotti was the first secretary of the Unity Socialist Party created for the expulsion of the reformists from the PSI, accused precisely of having attempted a government to prevent the advent of Mussolini. In that party – Veltroni's review continues – Pertini, Rosselli, Treves and Ferruccio Parri will find themselves. He will be the first to be dissolved by fascism. In 1924, in the elections won by a plebiscite by Mussolini's list, the PSU managed to be, albeit with 5 percent, the most voted left-wing party".
Excuse me, Walter, but I will also borrow this next passage: "Rethinking Matteotti, as Funiciello does, helps us to understand, for yesterday and today, the many lost opportunities to give life to a unitary reformist left, capable of combining freedom and social justice". “For yesterday and today”, I repeat with Veltroni. The treatment reserved between the Eighties and Nineties of the last century by the PCI and subsequent acronyms of Bettino Craxi's reformist socialism belongs – alas – to the less distant or more recent past, as you prefer. Whom they preferred to get rid of by trying to send him to prison, and having him die in Tunisia as an exile – or "fugitive", according to his opponents and magistrates – rather than building with him a united and reformist left after the fall of communism.
All this may seem extraneous, or artificial, to the centenary of Matteotti's death. What's the point, Antonio Di Pietro would perhaps ask, although distracted in recent days by the comparisons attempted by Giuseppe Conte between the so-called Tangentopoli of 1992 and the Baropoli, or Pugliopoli, of this 2024 in order to gain advantages from the difficulties of the Democratic Party in the race to overtake in what Conte himself calls the "right field", regardless of its size. Instead it has something to do with it, of course.
Politics continues to be hostage, with its literary or intellectualist appendages, to ignorance, bad memory and exploitation. Like that of Meloni, Mussolini's great-granddaughter and everything else, including that certain profession that believes it can defend or even protect it in the RAI of the unfortunately dying horse, despite its artistic power.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/caso-scurati-rai/ on Mon, 22 Apr 2024 05:41:21 +0000.