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A season of late empire
by Antonio Cardella

If we look around, we record only rubble. The so-called participatory democracy seems a land devastated by a disaster.

Even if when young we had studied better and more, if we had then applied more scrupulous with our principles in everyday practice, we would not be so well able to inflict blows both seated at the political-economic system of the bourgeoisie in our house, and beyond, than they have managed their real or alleged supporters.
If we look around, we record only rubble: with regard to public institutions of so-called participatory democracy, let the feelings of those who cross a land devastated by a natural disaster, in which the survivors wander bewildered looking for shelter without using a compass indicating the direction to take.
Judge for you too.
The parliament, which should dictate the even minimal rules of social life, is reduced to a mercenary camp, part of which, the majority, do obey a master who subsidizes them, asking in return absolute and blind loyalty, and the rest, helpless and resigned, says the old aspirations of the time in which many things could be and yet not have been done, pour crocodile tears after having swallowed all the frogs of a monolithic party that has degraded the role of parliamentarians elected in the functional logic of bureaucratic service equipment. The result is that the place to establish the rules of national coexistence has become a smelly swamp in which the worms made by all splashing handful of hired without honor or dignity and of the representatives of a middle class tear regimented and resigned, epigone tragic of a presumed liberal tradition always claimed and never really achieved.

The responsibilities of the judiciary

As for the executive, the corridors of power have been reduced to places where prostitution explicit chairman of the board, sick in body and mind, with attempts to revive with artifacts degrading performances as an eager and frustrated teenager, with the complicity of old eunuchs who procure and manage armies of little women more or less young, who just want to solve in one night the survival of at least one month, at the expense of a depressive and visibly decayed manic.
The show, which now the political class offers to the country - which, in turn, to a certain extent is an accomplice - is a season to the late Roman Empire in which all have a perception of irreversible decline, and release their inhibitions to drink until the bottom of the cup of licentiousness and degradation. Thus, while poverty is growing in the country, the powers of the State conflict between them as survivors who compete for a life raft.
So even debris on the judiciary - the third of powers - and not only because of the ambiguity that has always characterized - strong with the weak, weak with the strong - but also for helping to block the same bourgeois law, stuffed with determining complicity of the legislative power to an impressive, unique among the most advanced countries in the legal culture of mandatory rules, often contradictory, always to be interpreted and, therefore, with great deal of flexibility, which discharge their repressive loads on the weak links of society. Hence the loopholes in the order, such as, for example, the push and pull on the terms of prescription, of which take advantage the usual suspects to get away. So - to quote one of the most striking cases - Andreotti, who was organic to the Sicilian Mafia until the eighties, but the offense has lapsed, then stopped the proceedings and so the message of his complete innocence has passed.
But on the growth and pervasiveness of the various forms of organized crime mafia - who have long passed the Italian borders and spread throughout the European continent and crossed the ocean - the Italian justice has a special responsibility. Guilty it would not understand in time that the mafia was the ivy growing around the trunk of the State System, that without the complicity of state institutions (and the Church) the mafia (and later the Camorra, the 'Ndrangheta, and so on ) would have difficulty getting the sap to grow up so violently in uncontested control of entire territories of Southern Italy and pollute the nation's economy, making the foul air of a society, altering the social relations, multiplying up to make them endemic, the compromises over the most despicable and shameful complicity.
Since the fifties, especially in Sicily, it was so obvious the exchange vote, which allowed the Mafia to be massively represented in public institutions, it would not have been difficult, then, to combat the problem since its beginning, if the judiciary did not shown to be deaf to all calls that came from those who were most exposed to combat in the trenches: the Chambers of Labour at the time of land occupation (1946/47), then the left and the most advanced and most militant union.
In short, there are few responsibilities of the judiciary if this Italy has moved from the Andreotti season to the Craxi one, to unfortunately land in the Berlusconi season, in which all the devils by one ever realized unity are maddeningly manifested.

Concern and confidence

Let's be clear: we are light years away from thinking that the political systems that are based on the presence of the state are able to address and solve problems related to a coexistence of free and equal. However, there are limits of decency in any form of civil society that should not be exceeded, to avoid the drift of all against all barbaric, a drift that prevents the exchange of ideas than to exacerbate self-interest and raise the level of conflict.
So it is undisputed that we will not tore our clothes for the apparent collapse of the system on which it stands currently Berlusconi's Italy and Bersani (only to indicate the two poles of the majority and opposition).
But we must say frankly that, precisely because it is difficult to build on the rubble, we can not be complacent.
In the first instance, in fact, witness the degradation of the environment we are merged because of a political class that is depressing, and totally inadequate, in part, even depraved, is not an exciting show, because, as always, to the Government embezzlers have always enjoyed their relevant popularity, as in our case, Berlusconi is evidenced by the many delighted and convinced.
Then why, as always, to suffer in a contingency such as ours are very large sections of the population, especially the persistence of a very serious economic situation, which nobody wants to take over .
It is to this population and the movement of basic active in the country that we must look with concern but also with confidence.