Excuse us, we would like to take the floor just for a moment before the contiano “Me? Never been woke!” officially becomes what the veltroniano “never been a communist” was: a solemn mockery accepted as a given in public debate. While the left-wing political-intellectual class rushes to put the rainbow uniform in the attic and tells itself it is very worried about workers’ wages and the tax burden on freelancers (behind their backs James, the Filipino domestic worker, is doubled over with laughter), we would like to point out that here lurks an old, very old, entirely twentieth-century trick of the Company.
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It is the spectacular return of communist “doublethink,” the unchanged methodological core: there is no truth, there is only its perpetual adjustment to propaganda, the rewriting of History in the name of reasons, electoral above all, of current events. The quality of the actors changes, Togliatti who weaves oxymoronic lexical bridges between Stalinism and democracy is tragedy, the headlong rush of various Gori & Casalino off the permanent Pride wagon is pure comedy. The invariant is the scheme: History overtakes me and contradicts me, but I have always decreed that I have it on my side. So I simulate an update to its course, arrange something halfway between a self-criticism and a new narrative, to remain politically alive and carry forward the same agenda. The PCI secretary, who a few weeks earlier had toasted with satisfaction the bloody Soviet repression of the Hungarian uprising, officially advocated the “Italian way to socialism” in December 1956.
In the statement of intent, the acceptance of the constitutional and parliamentary framework to pursue the goal (which did not change: the overcoming of capitalism). However, this coexisted daily with reference to and subordination to the foreign policy interests of the USSR, the totalitarian country that led the system of alliances alternative to the one Italy was part of. Another red turn, another bold circumlocution: when Enrico Berlinguer launched “Eurocommunism,” it seemed like the severing of the umbilical cord with an entire tradition, still celebrated by friendly historiography and journalism.
LEXICAL CONTORTIONS
Too bad that even in this case it did not go beyond lexical tacticalism and the improbable stretching of meaning, as emerged from Berlinguer’s own words when he stated that “the PCI was a child of the October revolution, but adult and autonomous” or when he clarified in an interview with Eugenio Scalfari that the point of discussion was “how to overcome capitalism.” Once again, the goal at the top of the agenda was not removed. They were simply trying to survive the flood of History, which was already overwhelming the parent company. The same Third Way hypothesized on the ruins of the Berlin Wall (or rather, the importation to our latitudes of something that made sense in the Anglo-Saxon cosmos, read Clinton & Blair) was an illusionism, the attempt to save what had already become the scrap iron of European social democracy by devising an improbable synthesis between the free market and the will to rein it in. To say the credibility and actual novelty of the approach, around here it should have been led by Massimo D’Alema, more than a politician the living summary of the communist history above, of its linguistic contortions, its doctrinal contradictions, its atavistic, incurable, ontological doublethink.
Well, if Woke authoritarianism was the postmodern way to reopen the battle against modernity, against capitalism as an economic system, against the West as a cultural horizon, against individual freedom as an inalienable right (and it was, indeed it was, starting from the dystopian idea of “erasing us” as a civilization), don’t think it’s over. Don’t think the typical doublethink of the house is not at work, don’t think they will stop targeting the white man (the perfect culprit for them, warned us philosopher Pascal Bruckner, and they will not suddenly absolve him), the imaginary patriarchy (while they cuddle the only existing one, namely Islamic), the colonialist West (today colonized in its own home). Simply, it is a 5.0 de-Stalinization, they pretend to repudiate the most violent season, but they remain communists 5.0. They remain the LGBT for Gaza, figures wallowing in nonsense, die-hard wokists.
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