Conservative absent
Milan , Sept. 15, 2015 – 07:07
On the Right Italian decades Berlusconi acted as a drug. He euforizzata with unexpected success, has made believe to be ahead of the curve, now that the future was her: then let her exhausted and shattered just as it appears today. But really the fault of Berlusconi was the illusionist, nothing more. In Italy, in fact, the problem of a right that is not there, his nonexistent political identity, there long before him: only so far that has been hidden by the absolute hegemony of the Christian Democratic Party first, and then from that equally absolute Knight. Both gone, now it returns.
In essence, the problem of the Italian right , I think, is the problem of the difficulties encountered in our country an anthropology and a conservative political culture, that is similar to those who more or less typical in Europe Destre government. Do not be misled by appearances. It is true that a large majority now appears conservative Italian. True, it is wary of novelty, he does not like change substantially, the turns of any kind; that is a society of ancient and consolidated pessimism, grafted on a bottom up jaded cynicism. But his – this is the point – it’s a conservatism nullista, only negative: politically unusable if not to block the reformers and progressives, to stop the Left. It serves perhaps to avoid jumps in the dark, as in ’48, but it all ends there. W hat spontaneous Italian society is a conservative without ambition, without a project, without any real institutional horizon, on which it is impossible to build anything, or you can build everything: even the fascist subversion or the fortunes of a government that wants to left .
But a modern political conservatism is something else . First of all is liberal. Ie economy is against any monopolistic bottleneck corporate or for the benefit of privileged groups and interests protected, without being always against government intervention. Ideologically, then, it should be concerned above all to promote and protect the diversity of opinions. Trying also to be culturally unconventional and then sympathizing with the minorities and their point of view: so today, for example, diffiderà of scientism and idolatry prevailing technological, as well as injury hegemon that any subjective desire can become a law. It will refrain, of course, by a tribute to all the universal ideas, fashions and “diversity” politically correct.
Just nonconformity cultural and the sympathy for the positions minority pushing liberalism so understood to be on guard to the current modernity triumphant and overwhelming everywhere: and for this to orientate a conservative. Which today is to show tradition-conscious, cautious as always discard instead control the timing. Show careful, for example, not to indulge in a certain way of materialism and atheism, and instead consider what precious legacy Judeo-Christian writing in our customs and in our institutions; attentive, yet, to not disrupt the school, cultural transmission – as is the case for decades – under an avalanche of innovation programs a more silly and useless of ‘other, of relaxation and Disciplinary democraticismi destructive. Having a conservative means also, finally, want to keep the horizon within which they were born, preserve for future generations the landscapes, places, art treasures, that the past has left us.
Having said all that, however, remains the fundamental point : one in Italy true conservative political culture that can not be above all a culture oriented to the state: the state as guarantor of the general interest on the one hand (which in the end is always the interest of the weaker), and on the other the obligation of fulfillment by all duties to this interest to begin paying taxes. Protection of the public interest also means trying to ensure streamlined and clear regulations, the impartiality of the administrative procedures, the skills of bureaucracies, reward merit rather than recommended, do not leave the door open to the squandering of public funds or theft .
It means finally take care of the state machine , the his joints, especially in the center to the periphery, while maintaining the ability to control the territory through the prefectures, the headquarters of the Bank of Italy, the stewardships of Finance, the superintendence to the protection of cultural heritage, and so on. Since in Italy, you have to be convinced, the renunciation of this function of the state does not trigger almost never a beneficial blast of the animal spirits of the civil society, but almost always that of pigs comfortable thereof, under the auspices of local oligarchies when the organized crime.
This corresponds to that thing called authorities and sovereignty the state, which in any right they might have at heart; and – needless to say? – Make one with the idea of national sovereignty. Even today this idea quite obsolete but, feeling the current climate in Europe, it was perhaps set aside a bit ‘too quickly.
I leave it to readers if the Italian right has shown itself capable to be conservative in the way that has been said. It seems to me no, absolutely not. Mostly in fact it still appears the slavish representative belly of an electorate confused pre-political, keeper of sectoral interests, or reactionary modernist according conveniences. You can understand the League, which points to the worse the better, and it does not consider certain government force. The problem is everyone else. And in the absence of any other reigning political culture structured so as to create a real debate, in an attempt to balance, to a shred of assumptions about the future. Nothing. Everyone seems only hope in the resurrection of Lazarus Berlusconi or trasformistiche own resources combined with those of the Democratic Party: actually two hopes both very pale. So the Italian Right is poised to become politically your ghost: someone, occasionally, reports have it spotted in a TV talk show.
September 15, 2015 (modified September 15, 2015 | 07:07)
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