2.0 Turin and the Communist Youth independent magazine presents:
Our country should not die
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Via Mille 64 - Torino
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18 Hours: Commemoration of Dante di Nanni (for all interested contact gc-torino@libero.it)
Hours 19:30 Hours 20:30
Bars People's Debate - Resistance: a broken line
Discussants
Valerio Gentile (author of the book: the daring of the people of the Roman legion)
Bruno Dal Bo (co-author of the book: The cylinder and its 1943-45)
Eros Ricotti (ANPI)
Labonia Francis (independent magazine)
Dario Romeo (independent magazine)
Daniel Cardetta (FGCI Torino)
Introduced and moderated by Luca
Mezzacappa (resp. historical re-enactment of the Communist Youth Torino 2.0)
Garibaldi, shock brigades, which arise from italy you heart,
for their country, faith and honor against those who betrayed cursed.
partisan of all the valleys, the first machine guns, bombs and walk;
your fatherland overwhelmed in ruin, your home should not die.
down from the mountains descend to the valleys if the enemy destroys your roof, partisan, grab the rifle, not partisan, you die.
a difficult issue and somewhat all-encompassing as that the concept of "homeland" in the Italian Resistance phenomenon can not start from the premise that it was set up in which the facts in the Italian in the period from July 25, 1943, when King Vittorio Emanuele III deprives Mussolini, until approximately April 25, 1945; about because in reality the concept of "homeland" and its analysis in fact leave important legacies to the present day.
was swallowed up in Italy as of 8 September 1943 in what has rightly been dubbed as a "European civil war", or civil strife tearing at that that has characterized most of the countries victims of occupation by Nazi troops. Throughout Europe, especially France and Italy because the civilian population found itself literally overnight engulfed by conflict and faced with the choice of deadly invaders and strong, between collaborators and partisans of the invader. As a simplification of this kind may seem banal, as it does not take into account the choice of the overwhelming majority of people who preferred to remain in the "gray zone", well, looking to take a position pending the evolution of events, I think it is useful to make the idea of \u200b\u200bthe division net and no return which was to create in each of the countries involved. After September 8, 1943 was the concept of "homeland", on which the plethora Fascist propaganda had beaten the drum for twenty years to come crumbled overnight, for at least a majority of Italians. There were those who, indeed, decided to fight till the last to glorify the smoking remains of the fascist country, but there were some who took the opposite decision, rebelling against the very concept of homeland imposed by those who led Italy to the demolition . In order to combat the invader
German Resistance and the Republicans have been forged and tempered a new concept of home, a concept very different from what had been home since that time for millions of Italians. It was then, as noted by Battaglia in his work on the meaning of national resistance, the Italians began to conceive the nation as a "common good to be won every day, ourselves, our families, our work"). The concept of home has always been something alien to Italian popular bands, and this was a sort of wound that our country has pursued since the Risorgimento, exploding in all its disruptive with the collapse of state structures occurred in the course of the war . The masses that were exempted from the first revival found themselves involved in the development of a new concept of country, forged by fire of the guns and the blood of the fallen. I talked to the first revival because in some ways I think it is appropriate and correct to speak of the Italian civil war took place between September '43 and April 1944, as a real second renaissance that would affect the phenomenon of popular resistance bands , allowing them to leave an indelible mark in history.
Homeland therefore not as a set of customs and traditions to learn about books and glorify the celebrations with bloated, but as the daily practice that brought different individuals who share the same purpose, to build it with concrete actions and tangible results. After the Sept. 8 were many soldiers who found themselves uprooted stragglers in areas distant from their home in Sicily, Puglia, Campania often decided to serve a new concept of home and decided to climb into the mountains to fight against fascism near Piedmont, Lombardy, Romagna that shared with them the very same aspiration. They could ambush, understandably, as some did, they would also have decided to serve the enemy, this thing also occurred, but in many cases led them to fight not for themselves but for their country, and decided to do this by denying the self-styled Salo republic and decided to get involved to build something different, something completely different from the fascist dogma. Fascism for too long thought to have shaped the minds of the Italians at will, and when the state has collapsed and has failed in its vital structures, the construction of ideological fascism is then shown in all its smallness, thus allowing the really popular and patriotic forces for too long repressed, to gain the spotlight.
Those who went into hiding to avenge the shame of war on the Axis side were not all literary or theoretical purposes, were more often than soldiers or workers who have felt within themselves a tendency for the homeland, "we heard the ' love for our country, "read a partisan song, to indicate that if the country was broken by fascism Republican ideal of devotion to a dark and atavistic nationalist ideal now obsolete and seconded by the people, the new homeland instead of duty was something that he felt deep in my heart, something still build in common practice, work, and fighting the invader that this very country was annihilating.
Today, Italy is preparing to celebrate a little 'muted since the outbreak of economic crisis, the sesquicentennial anniversary of unification. Never like today patriotism is at its lowest terms, and then topical again all that we have so far said
. Of course, everything has changed since 1943, the state exists even if sick and there is fortunately no war fought that the risk of collapsing state structures as in the Second World War. However, the concept of homeland back forcefully to the fore when we see the attempts of an aggressive and racist right to deny the very concept of the homeland that has been delivered by our grandparents at the end of the war against Nazi fascism. The resistance as we have said has allowed the working classes, excluded from the Risorgimento to leave your own track, it is not random, in my opinion, a certain political party that seeks the collapse of the country which is also hinged on the Resistance to demolish the remaining concept of a homeland common around which millions of Italians in some way, almost unconsciously, yet recognize. For the avoidance of doubt I'm talking about the Northern League, the same party that offend the very roots of the founding of Italy, and offending the tradition of Garibaldi which not coincidentally watched the strong, try to delegitimize the ideals to innestane in place of new myths, invented and this time again artifacts, which may serve to achieve their objectives, antithetical to the concept of homeland which, so far, we have spoken.
Daniel Cardetta
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