Cycles of Hatred and Rage by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030144166
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

The party may not have managed to rack up big electoral wins outside of the North even after embracing the Italians first slogan, but there is one thing at which they are very successful: creating a distinct Leghista identity , especially for those who entered the party ranks in their teenage years, including its current successful leader Matteo Salvini.

Young Padanians, the youth organization of the party, always has been a strong recruiting enterprise that emphasizes learning by doing. Movies are screened to introduce new recruits to the Leghista universe, along with discussions afterward. The ridiculing of symbols and the disparagement of the political system as a whole are also effective, especially when taken in tandem with the encouragement of alternative readings of Italian and regional history.

Common themes of the movies were either the corruptness or ineffectiveness of the Italian state, as those factors have inflicted suffering upon the people. Gli Chiamorono Briganti (They Call Them Bandits) is a movie that is often shown and discussed. It is argued that the 1999 film was pulled from theaters after just three days due to its controversial depiction of the process of Italian unification. Indeed, it pictures an invasion rather than a unification, an invasion led by some Francophile, francophone elites, as corrupt as they were inept, which also involved a lot of dirty dealings between those premial powerhouses, precursors of the mafia, and segments of the Catholic Church. The formation of the Italian state is depicted as almost a conspiracy against “the people,” one that was full of suffering, torture, execution, and persecution. The supposed heroes are deemed to be mere bandits. After the movie screening, speakers invoked the famous quote “with Italy made, we must now make Italians.”

The Italian state is further challenged, depicted as a collusion between the vested interests of the elite and criminals: the Mafia, Trade Union, and the Church, with politicians being the mere puppets and agents of this order or, to change the metaphor, parasites drawing their sustenance from clientelism. Worse yet, the ineffective state is unable to provide basic security, and is overwhelmed by a virtual tsunami of immigration, that is firmly in the grasp of an elite which has ceded official sovereignty to the European Union.

The death of the old is not only due to the issues associated with state formation, nor can the latter entirely explain the emergence of and support for the party. Rather than pinpointing one incident or culprit for the emergence and rise of the Northern League, I argue that we need to see a whole network of factors that took hold after the end of the Cold War.

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