introductory preface to the next post dedicated to Pasolini:
for obvious logistical reasons and copyright, the pages on Pasolini's writings that follow, will be partially taken from various texts. With this in mind, I invite readers to discuss my job application, that shows a cross section of our society: the whole, moving within the limits of the available space and which does not make a treaty of sociology.
The middle class today
What, above all, what is middle class in the Italian scenario of the post war?
A question that one of the most careful intellectual, Pier Paolo Pasolini, has tried to answer.
The various reflections of the writer, poet and Italian director, showed that in the thirty years prior to 1980, distinguished the middle class from the working class. The differences were very marked, not only for the social economic conditions, but a result of foreclosure cultural distance to the study of the weaker classes.
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By popular liberation, (the only positive result of industrialization spread after World War II), the people gaining ground in the new scenario of the economic boom. Through the consolidation of rights in the work and a new social consciousness, it establishes the basis for a process of "civilization" that involves the lower middle class of our Italian society.
education becomes a right enjoyed by a larger number persons belonging to the disadvantaged end of the first Republican Italy.
during the transitional period of emancipation and culturizzazione, there are two factors should not be overlooked: the rootedness in certain Catholic traditions associated with the domain now, and the positive side, almost animistic relationship with the earth. The combination of these elements in many ways symbiotic and others opposed to, is the fabric of a process of slow evolution "about changes in society.
A new company that in certain respects, positively, he leaves for growth of knowledge and culture by clerical domination (even if only partially), but negatively, with tears falling victim to the rural past of the new industrial progress, which seems to give more guarantees and economic resources at the expense of quality of life and freedom, but these concepts are still far from understanding.
Within this dualistic mechanism will inevitably create conflict that invariably the old and new hierarchies of power are trying to exploit, to maintain or gain, control of the masses. The church intends versions with more "liberated" the gospel and the wage is, however, taken the form of social control the "new order of power." Politics and the church, making this a fertile background in Italian society, come together in a project that will affect seriously the process of emancipation.
born labor movements, trade unions are structured effectively. It constitutes a new intellectual environment, which sees poets, writers and other artists, to speak a new language in the odor of progressivism, which also involves people of the world proletariat, in a time of great uncertainty still popular and political. A stage where the Christian Democratic Party, to gather votes, writes ominously in the posters: "Be careful that the urn God sees you."
Among these new forms of emancipatory structure and culture that conflict with the religious-political power, coupled with the required submission of "allies" Americans, because we should not forget that our country has lost war, despite having had the heroes, who fought in the resistance, it must be subject to a system that tracks the track set, in fact impairing the normal development process in place.
I will not dwell on the resistance phenomenon, which deserves more space or better, a greater esteem in the national context, as opposed to institutional, very "fascist" is happening. I intend to return to this subject in a specific way to restore dignity to those who fought to bring democracy to this country. A democracy, taken just by the hair, by those who for a moment, changed his clothes in the command centers.
back instead on the main subject, which aims to understand what is today and most importantly, by whom they are composed of the new bourgeoisie, one can not overlook the central phenomenon of consumerism. The new world order based on its revenues consumerism, but to do so, requires a large number of consumers able to buy all the time. To do this you must organize the masses to enable them often and consumption of goods is not essential. It is also not in the interests of capital, however, allow a large number of people to have independence and economic autonomy. In essence, the system has created an infinite amount of debt, which must work tirelessly to help get the money to pay as banks anticipate. The new middle class, in this context differs from the rest of the mass on the basis of financial exposure. There is therefore no longer be identified the true middle class, as it merges with everyone else for their appearance or lifestyle, but you find only in terms of exposure in respect of a financial or credit institutions. The term "middle class" at this point, is no longer correct and you are facing a new social structure is to limit the chronic indebtedness of some of the impossible, and the control of those who are granted much , managing to keep pace without too much risk. The first is the most common and total victim of the media, which spread in a pounding, stereotypes and lifestyles idionisiaci and unsustainable, the second is more numerically balanced, and acts as a link with the third category. Behold, the third category is what weighs most on everyone else. You made by politicians, executives and consultants of various party or ministry or a financial institution or senior figures in production, and parastatal companies or "colluding" with the state to aid unearned (see Fiat), which is "self rewarding" each other on the basis of their positions and administrative functions. A third category that, for a walk with the ecclesiastical system, which holds 20% of world resources, determine the real new middle class, which amplifies the gap between rich and poor and has, inevitably, the control of the masses through indebtedness.
This new reconstitute the Italian company, is the onset of a grim future, where young people will be forced to migrate as they are now Africans, and the old will be forced to starve. The problem of the economic crisis, consumerism, the lobby of power is certainly widespread and involves other European countries, but Italy is a particularly serious condition and if corrective measures are taken aimed at eliminating those who eat on the shoulders of the people, rather than cuts in services and education, we will slip back in the Middle Ages can be however, that a large proportion of Italians, is fine.
Giordan
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