Schlein effect
Is the spring of the Democratic Party starting with Elly Schlein? Damato's Scratches
Even if betrayed on many other political occasions that were inspired by it not so much in Italy as in the world, from Dubcek's still communist Czechoslovakia in 1968 to the less remote Arab experiences of the Mediterranean coast, the season of spring – a "new spring", has said Elly Schlein taking up office as secretary in the futuristic cloud of Fuksas, in Rome – it opened joyfully a few days ahead of schedule in and on the Democratic Party. Which has finally really come out of the very long congressional path taken after the electoral defeat of last September 25th.
It is a spring that Schlein, convinced that she can escape from the " chief bosses and caciques " who grew up cultivating the gardens of their currents, will have to continue off-season at least until next year's European elections. Which taking place with the proportional system, and released from the game of alliances or combinations of majority and opposition to the national government, will be able to allow the new secretary of the Democratic Party to really measure its attractiveness, to then invest in the rest of the current Italian legislature, in view of the next.
Elly Schlein was able to do so in the desired operation of reopening membership after the victory in the primaries of 26 February. Of the ten thousand who responded to the secretary's appeal, a good part is made up of adults, not young or very young, not returning to the Democratic Party but new arrivals, with no other previous history of political militancy. They therefore seem to be inscriptions dictated not by sudden infatuations but by reasoning.
Perhaps the new secretary of the Democratic Party has really managed to make a foray into the growing world of abstentionism. And in the most risky part for a democracy like that of the indifferent. That of all the real or potential adversaries they were the most feared, and at the same time despised, by Antonio Gramsci in the years in which fascism was maturing in Italy. And socialism allowed itself to be emptied of the revolutionary myth of communism. Of which Gramsci himself somehow became a victim, even if his figure was destined to become an icon of the Marxist left.
The "new spring", I repeat, announced by Schlein may perhaps turn out to be more dangerous for Meloni – as Carlo De Benedetti said optimistically sure yesterday in his "radicality" also translated into a book – than the premier has shown to believe by saying sympathetic niceties of his opponent. But even more negative I think its effects will be on what is left of the 5 Star Movement and what was inherited by Giuseppe Conte, while Grillo has practically returned to his profession as a comedian.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/effetto-schlein/ on Mon, 13 Mar 2023 07:11:07 +0000.