/291/ The Right Timeline ft. Mattia Salvia
Added 2022-09-28 23:28:07 +0000 UTCOn the Brothers of Italy
We talk to Mattia Salvia, former Rolling Stone Italia politics editor and author of Interregno, about Italy's election last weekend in the context of a Europe in crisis. The big question to start: is Meloni a fascist - and will her government be fascist?
With very low turnout, it seems like the working class has deserted politics, with 5 Star being the last gasp of proletarian participation. Does Meloni try to appeal to this constituency at all? Her low-tax anti-welfare policies don't seem like it.
And what of Meloni's pro-NATO politics? And what does this mean for the EU - will a FdI-ruled Italy weaken the union, or strengthen it?
Readings:
- Meet the New Wolf, Giorgia Meloni, Mattia Salvia, Popula
- In Italy’s Deserted Democracy, Far-Right Giorgia Meloni Has Emerged Victorious, David Broder, Jacobin
- Meloni’s victory only strengthens the EU, Philip Cunliffe, Unherd
- What an Italy led by the far-right might mean for Europe, FT
In Italian
- Coatta Antica, Mattia Salvia, Not Nero
- http://www.iconografie.it/
Comments
The strategy described in the episode of right-wing economics wedded to anti-woke campaigning to appeal to some part of a ‘working class’ really describes my governor, Ron DeSantis, far more than it ever did Trump.
Paul Brewer
2022-10-12 20:36:35 +0000 UTCthere's a point at which political analysis matches "super edgy music" analysis. Is Fugazi really punk? Is Big Black the original emo/screamo? Can Sonic Youth fans really be considered "alternative" given their abhorrence to that in 1994 given the course of music fandom? Apples and oranges albeit- the constant hatred of wokery where its due in spite of where its not is leaving me thinking compact mag might be a sure fit for these fellas.
Erik Anderson
2022-09-29 05:03:01 +0000 UTC
