Emanuele Macaluso, a dear friend and a political teacher
"Emanuele Macaluso taught me that great politics should not be confused with a" grandiose "politics or one affected by delusions of grandeur". Michael Magno's Notepad
In these hours rivers of ink are pouring (rightly) on the figure and life of Emanuele Macaluso.
For me, as well as a close friend, he was a political teacher.
He taught me that great politics should not be confused with a "grandiose" politics or one affected by delusions of grandeur: by great politics we must mean, no more, no less, that the pursuit of not just any government (this can also be imposed by circumstances to avoid worse evils, as they say today to justify the Count "bis-bis" ot er ), but rather the pursuit of good governance. And a good government is one that knows how to evaluate and select the means in relation to the qualification of the end.
In other words, qualified means are needed for equally qualified ends.
The lack of the quality of the end opens the way to the low cuisine of means (or means of low cuisine).
The lack of the quality of the means opens the way to the corruption of the end.
After all, this was Emanuele Macaluso's reformism. And its political ethics.
In these times, it seems to me a lesson to be learned by heart.
Here I want to remember Emanuele with one of his latest posts that almost every day he gave us on the most popular of social networks, cursive with dry and sharp prose, which conceded nothing to the seductions of nostalgia.
Matteo Renzi, after meeting the rulers of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, released a statement saying that that country "is a superpower, not only in the economy, but also in culture, tourism and sustainability". It should be emphasized that, for Renzi, Saudi Arabia is a "superpower of culture". Which culture? There is a small detail to tell us: the Saudi journalist who wrote in the Washington Post, Jamal Khashoggi, an opponent of the Saudi regime, was assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, where he had gone to obtain his marriage documents. The journalist's body was sawn, put in a suitcase and transferred to Riyadh. Waiting for him was Prince Mohammad bin Salman, the strong man of that country and heir to the throne. As a superpower of culture certainly not bad.
Yesterday, in the Corriere della Sera, the other Matthew was sanctified. This was done by Cardinal Ruini who, for many years, has governed the CEI. The elderly prelate said that "he does not share the negative image that is proposed by some circles". The circles to which he refers are of that Catholic world and of the Church which have disapproved, at times even bitterly, Salvini's work against immigrants, often left on ships, in the open, and with racist motivations. The cardinal says that waving and kissing the rosary at rallies, as Salvini does, "can also be a reaction to politically correct, and an unfortunate way of affirming the role of faith in public space". In fact, Salvini's profound faith is known to all Catholics and he shows it above all towards the dispossessed and refugees.
The truth is that the long interview with the cardinal represents a polemical signal towards the Church of Pope Bergoglio and those Catholics, such as the current head of the CEI, Gualtiero Bassetti, who think and work for an organized political commitment of Catholics, independent from the left and in stark contrast to the racist right. Ruini, as if to clarify his thoughts, exalted the open support given in the past to the Berlusconian right.
In short, the two Matthew are loved by Muslims or Catholics, with a different but clear cultural DNA against modernity and, above all, the left ”.
( Facebook, November 4, 2019 )
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vi-racconto-emanuele-macaluso-un-caro-amico-e-un-maestro-politico/ on Tue, 19 Jan 2021 08:58:35 +0000.