's review of James Gabel, specially written for our blog
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In questi tempi piuttosto bui per la grande editoria italiana, che ha letteralmente saturato gli scomparti delle librerie dedicati alla saggistica con veri e propri polpettoni in cui svariati uomini politici, seguendo la moda del tempo, si sono cimentati nella stesura delle loro "memorie" o delle loro visioni della "buona politica", è diventato assai arduo reperire testi di qualità, oramai appannaggio quasi esclusivo delle piccole case editrici, spesso animate da sano entusiasmo e dalla volontà di diffondere nuove idee. E' senza dubbio il caso della casa editrice "Il Foglio Letterario", la quale ha da poco dato alle stampe il saggio A destra per caso , scritto a quattro hands by Nicola Vacca, journalist and writer, and Charles Gambescia, sociologist.
This is a slim pamphlet, in which the authors engage in constructive dialogue, comparing their experiences in the cultural environment of the Italian right, the eighties to today. Reading these two authors is a real pleasure, and already the first lines you can realize the personality very rare that one has before, in a stagnant and swampy as the Italian one, in which unbridled opportunism reigns and where the ultimate goal is always the self-interest.
Nicola and Carlo Vacca Gambescia recount in full and a critical overview their cultural, made of ideas, values \u200b\u200band beliefs, acquired through years and years of work and reflection and deconstruct them from the root.
Nicola Vacca, coming from the Socialist, dwells at length on the fruitful experience of associate of the cultural pages of the "Century of Italy, and speaks with obvious bitterness of the change of guard at the direction of the newspaper, which was passed by ' Gennaro Malgieri loved to much less estimated Flavia Perina, that a second cow "has read fewer books than I have written it."
Carlo Gambescia, extraction and liberal Catholic, but recalls his approach to Mark Tarchi, the happy period of collaboration to the magazines "Diorama Literature" and "transgression" and the shift away from the latter occurred as a result, the coming into contact with Enzo Cipriano and his publishing house "Seventh Seal" (the first to have published the texts of Alain de Benoist in Italy), for which he served the role of editor and creator, for example, the excellent series "Anamera. Rarely
the cultural landscape we had were able to offer a discussion as interesting as the innate, very Italian hypocritical vocation has always prevented any kind of radical analysis, where the analysis radicals are the only ones able to stimulate positive thoughts to generate ideas very fruitful. Both authors have deconstructed their disenchantment Italian right calling for a more devoted to culture and less subject to the dictates imposed by the court jesters of the faithful to his master, who in the book are called "Finian's complement", rei, for example, had sold off assets culurale, that of MSI old, not at all contemptible and ruined a very respectable newspaper as the "Century of Italy", by folding the instrumental purposes of an individual. The individual in question is none other than Gianfranco Fini, who draws a highly critical portrait.
In fact, for two keen observers happened "right case", whose impartiality is questionable if, as a politician Gianfranco Fini can not be desirable. Fini, a time-honored dolphin Giorgio Almirante, had the courage to define fascism "absolute evil" was never a man of culture, so that away from positions that counted all those who, like Gennaro Malgieri, had a better idea top right, only to write a book, entitled dall'altisonante The Future of Freedom (in terms of rhetoric, there is nothing to envy to Rifenstahl of "The Triumph of the Will"), full of cultural references, from Thomas Mann, Karl Popper, until, indeed, to Friedrich von Hayek. Let the word Nicola Vacca: "Gianfranco Fini wants to be at all costs the political man of the moment. In recent years it has consumed so many of those tears that no longer recognizes him as a human right. In return, he became chairman of the House and left the champion of radical chic. Left all applaud him. Intellectuals and not. "
The authors also explore the phenomenon, little known in Italy, the" New Right ", born in France by Alain de Benoist brilliant ideas of the eclectic and imported to Italy by Marco Tarchi, of which Charles Gambescia was a close collaborator. The ideas of "New Right", soaked in antiutilitarismo, anti-Americanism, environmentalism and communitarianism, rightly defined antisystemic, are put in opposition to the emptiness of the farcical and self-styled "New Right", which builds on the foundation Finian, entirely without a political project, by the name of "Making the Future", whose sole job, according to the authors, beyond the simple "look left to displace the Berlusconi", given the old and never appeased temptation to Fini to replace the tenant to Arcore, always dominant cock of the house.
The authors also explore the phenomenon, little known in Italy, the" New Right ", born in France by Alain de Benoist brilliant ideas of the eclectic and imported to Italy by Marco Tarchi, of which Charles Gambescia was a close collaborator. The ideas of "New Right", soaked in antiutilitarismo, anti-Americanism, environmentalism and communitarianism, rightly defined antisystemic, are put in opposition to the emptiness of the farcical and self-styled "New Right", which builds on the foundation Finian, entirely without a political project, by the name of "Making the Future", whose sole job, according to the authors, beyond the simple "look left to displace the Berlusconi", given the old and never appeased temptation to Fini to replace the tenant to Arcore, always dominant cock of the house.
The book is not limited however to the cold scrutiny of organic equipment to the PDL, but explores the concept of the right to relate, metapolitical, the current Italian situation, so as to reveal the huge gaps. Both authors remember with warm affection Giano Accame the historian and journalist, recently deceased, and the show as one of the icons of the conservative right, that it does not hand the gun every time you heard the word "culture", who can listen to others without reason to hide behind their armor regardless of any ideological castra constructive confrontation.
Nicola Vacca makes repeated reference to the old Prezzolini Joseph, man of the nineteenth century, the perennial search for the right as a conservative, unable to reconcile modernity with tradition by not disavowing the values. Intellectuals now much in vogue, such as Marcello Veneziani Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and instead are cut off, football, in our opinion, too much hand it is argued that the first "is not a carrier of ideas," while the latter is portrayed as "a proponent of a right field in the air, a bit futuristic, a little 'anarchist, but so imaginary (...). We have known the mind strong, we were invaded by the thought weak, but Buttafuoco is the true 'Cazzaro' empty of thought ...".
Some hits are also trimmed the historian Franco Cardini, who is suspected, in our opinion, so unfounded, that it is not immune from the "fascist temptation" mentioned by Tarmo Kunnas. The condemnation of the Italian right now and its representatives, however, is without appeal.
For his part, Charles Gambescia writes: "The crisis of 'identity of the right is given by the denial of its past ideology. Today of Fini and the right of the 'Century of Italy 'are accepted by the left as you come down only on his own ground. This must be said. The great harmony between the last leader of the Italian right and the left has compromised any kind of synthesis. The career of Fini has created a monster: a personal right which permits each day left to discover in the best of all possible worlds, which legitimize themselves. "How can we not agree with him?
In conclusion, the book is not without flaws and exaggerations here and there, but much must be forgiven to the authors, who have embellished, if nothing else, the great merit consists in having brought to the attention of readers with a serious and lucid analysis of the problems today are maliciously unspoken o minimizzati; uno fra tutti, la scomunica irrevocabile dei "fascisti" come Giano Accame, messi all'angolo da una cultura barbara schiava del politicamente corretto. La moda di rileggere la storia e gli autori sul registro dell'anacronismo, passando idee e personaggi di settant'anni fa al vaglio degli usi e costumi attualmente imperanti è messa duramente sotto accusa, pagina dopo pagina. In definitiva, un libro che vale sicuramente la pena di essere letto, con estrema attenzione.
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Giacomo Gabellini
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