The desecration of the headquarters of the CGIL. The assault on the heart of the capital. The wave of clashes that swerves and slams against via Veneto and Villa Borghese. The siege of the buildings of the institutions. The high-voltage face-to-face in via del Corso between the police and the people of the no green pass. The leaders of Forza Nuova directors of this contemporary guerrilla. And the words of condemnation that have bounced around the political world: fascists! Squadristi! Grandchildren of the vulgar and subversive violence that marked the Mussolini era. But is this the case? Is this portrait of the more than 10 thousand people who demonstrated exhaustive as a whole? And again: what should we expect, in the days and months to come, from this mix of anti-vaccine souls and black militants? Questions answered by Emilio Gentile, an internationally renowned historian and academic who has dedicated decades of studies to fascism, publishing the essay “Chi è fascista” for Laterza in 2019.
Let’s get straight to the point: do you agree with the use of the adjective “fascist” to define the violence that has upset Rome?
“Yup. The protagonists of the riots themselves define themselves as such. I would not like to expropriate them of an adjective that is a self-portrait of their mentality “…
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The desecration of the headquarters of the CGIL. The assault on the heart of the capital. The wave of clashes that swerves and slams against via Veneto and Villa Borghese. The siege of the buildings of the institutions. The high-voltage face-to-face in via del Corso between the police and the people of the no green pass. The leaders of Forza Nuova directors of this contemporary guerrilla. And the words of condemnation that have bounced around the political world: fascists! Squadristi! Grandchildren of the vulgar and subversive violence that marked the Mussolini era. But is this the case? Is this portrait of the more than 10 thousand people who demonstrated exhaustive as a whole? And again: what should we expect, in the days and months to come, from this mix of anti-vaccine souls and black militants? Questions answered by Emilio Gentile, an internationally renowned historian and academic who has dedicated decades of studies to fascism, publishing the essay “Chi è fascista” for Laterza in 2019.
Let’s get straight to the point: do you agree with the use of the adjective “fascist” to define the violence that has upset Rome?
“Yup. The protagonists of the riots themselves define themselves as such. I would not like to expropriate them of an adjective that is a self-portrait of their mentality “…
Continue reading the article in the weekly The Post Internazionale-TPI: click here.
The desecration of the headquarters of the CGIL. The assault on the heart of the capital. The wave of clashes that swerves and slams against via Veneto and Villa Borghese. The siege of the buildings of the institutions. The high-voltage face-to-face in via del Corso between the police and the people of the no green pass. The leaders of Forza Nuova directors of this contemporary guerrilla. And the words of condemnation that have bounced around the political world: fascists! Squadristi! Grandchildren of the vulgar and subversive violence that marked the Mussolini era. But is this the case? Is this portrait of the more than 10 thousand people who demonstrated exhaustive as a whole? And again: what should we expect, in the days and months to come, from this mix of anti-vaccine souls and black militants? Questions answered by Emilio Gentile, an internationally renowned historian and academic who has dedicated decades of studies to fascism, publishing the essay “Chi è fascista” for Laterza in 2019.
Let’s get straight to the point: do you agree with the use of the adjective “fascist” to define the violence that has upset Rome?
“Yup. The protagonists of the riots themselves define themselves as such. I would not like to expropriate them of an adjective that is a self-portrait of their mentality “…
Continue reading the article in the weekly The Post Internazionale-TPI: click here.
The desecration of the headquarters of the CGIL. The assault on the heart of the capital. The wave of clashes that swerves and slams against via Veneto and Villa Borghese. The siege of the buildings of the institutions. The high-voltage face-to-face in via del Corso between the police and the people of the no green pass. The leaders of Forza Nuova directors of this contemporary guerrilla. And the words of condemnation that have bounced around the political world: fascists! Squadristi! Grandchildren of the vulgar and subversive violence that marked the Mussolini era. But is this the case? Is this portrait of the more than 10 thousand people who demonstrated exhaustive as a whole? And again: what should we expect, in the days and months to come, from this mix of anti-vaccine souls and black militants? Questions answered by Emilio Gentile, an internationally renowned historian and academic who has dedicated decades of studies to fascism, publishing the essay “Chi è fascista” for Laterza in 2019.
Let’s get straight to the point: do you agree with the use of the adjective “fascist” to define the violence that has upset Rome?
“Yup. The protagonists of the riots themselves define themselves as such. I would not like to expropriate them of an adjective that is a self-portrait of their mentality “…
Continue reading the article in the weekly The Post Internazionale-TPI: click here.