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Elaborare la sconfitta per ricominciare a vincere

di Luigi Cancrini

Caro Cancrini, la settimana scorsa Cotroneo ha parlato di terapia di sostegno per le persone di sinistra e suggerito diverse tecniche per la depressione: in primis evitare la tv. Ora la questione mi sembra debba affrontarsi anche con competenza clinica, lo dico senz'ironia.

How can you resist a further five years systematic employment of any visual space, the exhibition persistent resentment, vengeance, vulgarity? It will take a psychic equilibrium very firmly not to indulge in depression or anger to impotence. Nor simply to accept the rational analysis of reality as more depressing: that at least half of our fellow citizens have chosen with full awareness of this right!

We continue to say that B. is a seller of smoke, a liar. But when ever? B. is predictable in every move he makes, he never denied the expectations, he has always done and said things that was expected of him! The so-called her nothing but lies that are discovered ed ammiccante artificio retorico! Come dunque convivere con l'altra metà della popolazione, che in B. si riconosce? Come passare i prossimi anni, durante i quali non ci sarà risparmiato nulla e vedremo legittimati e dilagare comportamenti agli antipodi dei nostri orizzonti morali? Insomma, caro Cancrini, suggeriscici le forme per elaborare l'accettazione d'una realtà ingrata. Con stima profondissima.

Lettera Firmata

All'interno di una riflessione illuminata e molto attuale, Gramsci scriveva nei suoi Quaderni della differenza sostan­ziale, nella rivoluzione francese, fra giacobini e sanculotti. Animati i primi, che erano a vol­te di origine proletaria ma che venivano spes­so anche dalla borghesia, dalla nobiltà e dal clero, dall'idea di essere (o di dover essere) i protagonisti di un grande processo della sto­ria e coinvolti, i secondi, invece, da un movi­mento che sembrava in grado di corrisponde­re alle loro aspettative immediate: alla possibi­lità, dopo anni di sofferenza, di liberarsi del giogo cui erano stati a lungo ingiustamente sottomessi.

Pronti, i primi, a trasformarsi (i Robespierre ed i Sanjust) in rigidi, (ed eventual­mente spietati) difensori di un'idea che incar­nava i loro ideali. Pronti, i secondi, a modifica­re le loro posizioni di fronte ad una realtà che suggerisce altri modi di difendere gli interessi that were better protected, at a certain stage, by revolutionary ideas. Proposed

clearly by the example of Gramsci, the discourse on the need to reflect on the motivations of men and women who carry on a conversation, or revolutionary left, explains a lot. A strong left needs a broad combination of different reasons.

Left to themselves, without a practical reflection of the earthly motivations of sans-culottes, the Jacobins were stiffened in the monstrosity of the real community or just words of the salons. Unrelated to the ideas behind their emancipation, the sans-culottes were processed facilmente in persone di destra.

Come accadde all'inizio de­gli anni '80, quando avendo appena ricevuto acqua, gas e luce per l'iniziativa di Luigi Petroselli, un grande sindaco comunista, molti abi­tanti delle borgate romane smisero di votare il Pci (che a lungo li aveva aiutati nelle lotte per la fontanella e per la fognatura, per la fermata dell'autobus e per la scuola dei figli) e aderiro­no (cosa che allora ci stupì) a quei movimenti di destra che più facilmente intercettavano il loro bisogno di sentirsi cittadini a pieno titolo di una Città che li aveva a lungo emarginati: ri­conoscendo il loro bisogno di distinguersi dai nuovi emigranti.

Il fascismo e le formazioni politiche che si refer to the right become strong, in fact, when people feel the need to defend the interests, large and small, but personal and consolidated. The ideological cement that allows the development is above all the fear of losing their property or their little big privileges.

A fear aroused by Communism (still!) Or by immigrants: Italians in America yesterday Sacco and Vanzetti or the Swiss "Bread and Chocolate, in the Italy of today's extra-Bossi, Fini and Berlusconi in Sarkozy's France: Islamic terrorists in the western part vulgate by George W. Bush and endorsed today by a poor Papa's love for others and a sense of reality.

I left far to say that we should think long and hard about the reasons for this triumph of the right of Berlusconi announced. The idea of \u200b\u200bProdi and the left so that the income should be redistributed to those who do not like very much and do not like even if those who have little fear that the redistribution will start from him.

The notion that immigrants who come to our country are more mouths to feed and serious problems for the safety and welfare of the Italians is not realistic, but it affects people who reflect less. Time is not ideological, in which the anti-politics has undermined the image of the state and institutions are times when the trend to close up in their own particular strong especially if there is a strong fear can be worse and if it is no longer from the left to continue a discourse that distinguishes the good from the economic well being.

setting the political initiative on trying to compete with Berlusconi on the ground of the promises of materials (the bonus for families, insurance for housewives, social peace guaranteed by the presence in the list of manufacturers and workers) Veltroni has brought forward a competition unwinnable because who thinks to himself and to his particular (including the former sans-culottes) trust and trust over Berlusconi (or Casini) of him and he who believes in the power of ideas are disappointed by this his choice.

Just as he felt disappointed by the Jacobins (of which I too have been a part) who also fought an impossible battle. Great ideas take hold among the masses unless they are carried out by people who can listen with understanding the real needs of the "sans-culottes": an ability and intelligence that we are missing. What we are facing is a trauma that we need to understand that. Developed their own to avoid the depressive illness, one that determines when the pain is still locked inside of us.

When not find the words to be said for others. When the outlet is not necessary to share the reasoning to move forward in a situation like this. The man, Marx said, is a social animal and the duty of men is, historically, to achieve this characteristic. Starting from a careful analysis of the problems. Avoiding tense (always the risk of the Jacobins) in positions that contribute most to the reaction to that change, but without abandoning the idea that men can really be better only if they can all feel good.

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