Italian here: using a rave party in Modena as an excuse, the new government already tried to ban all non authorized meetings with more than 50 people, with a penalty of up to 6 years of prison for the organizers. They only agreed to slightly modify the law after massive backlash
Update on Meloni's Fratelli D'Italia with regards to "anti-establishment", "pro-worker" aesthetics: Heavy resistance to demands for a minimum wage. Dismantlement of social safety nets. At local levels, party members are also doing their best to roll-back rights for the lgbtq+ community, but that isn't happening on a national level yet. Climate change denial is surprisingly ramping up this summer. It's almost funny to me, watching a far-right government coming in after decades of neo-liberalism, and finding that everything they planned to do has already been done. It'll probably be the same in France when Macron is done, if the left fails once again. All that's really left for these misanthropes to do, is to ramp up discrimination, because Europe has been handing over the keys to anarcho capitalism for quite some time now.
@@t.m.2415Update: the French left got their shit together and beat the far-right to win a majority in the French National Assembly! Also, Keir Starmer and the Labor Party have decimated the Tories (although Starmer is more Tony Blair than Clement Attlee or Harold Wilson), so it looks like things in Europe are gonna be…interesting for the next few years, to say the absolute LEAST.
There's so much shit i hate about right wingers and discourse about them. But I think I've decided that people pretending fascists funded by billionaires and multinational corporations are "anti-establishment" just because they ignore "political correctness" or whatever. The sheer ignorance and/or deceptiveness on display with that statement makes me want to yank my hair out.
This entire series was great. Please do an likewise analysis on the fascist movement in Sweden. We recently had an election that resulted in the Sweden democrats a party founded by Waffen SS volunteers and Neo Nazis winning 20% of the votes. Making it the second largest party in Sweden (after the social democrats) and the largest party in the right wing bloc and (probably since nobody has formed a government yet) the biggest party in the government.
@@BesDMarx Wow thanking you for responding to my comment and considering my suggestion. Looking forward to your future projects whatever it ends up being!
Hi! Italian here! Because of CIA intervention in our politics throughout the Cold War that completely prevented us from getting rid of fascism and that crippled our left to the point where nowadays there are no real leftist parties that matter
As an Italian I am going to use this series to present the post-WWII history of fascism in Italy. Thank you so much you made me learn more about my own country!
The amount of people here openly supporting a party and person who have openly declared themselves fascist with all the iconography that comes with it is definitely disturbing.
Sure, but we had AN and then FDI in various government since 1994. Is this really that different? Sorry but I don't see the danger of a fascist takeover of "democracy", and the reason is simple: they don't need to. The only moderately leftist party left in Italy is the M5S and right now they are not even remotely able to pose a threat to the system.
Okay this brings a question. What the other party is doing that was so bad people would rather elect Fascists? I mean they gotta be doing something wrong.
Just as an example: during all the pandemics the governments supported by Italy's centre-left party said that they would refund national healthcare. But under Draghi's government they clearly said there would be no money for healthcare. Meloni's was the only party not partaking this technocratic orgy. Also, looking at the numbers, this was the political election where less people went to vote: the numbers state clearly that Meloni won because people who previously voted for centre-left parties were too disgusted to go to vote. The horrible electoral law that allowed her to be in the majority was created by the main centre-left party that hoped to push back on the "third party" Movimento 5 Stelle. I despise Meloni, but the centre-left party, PD, brought this disgrace upon itself and all of us.
@@mconfalonieriWhere used to have way to many parties 2 I was going to vote for the melon last time but the way to many parties And I wanted to be in forms I didn't vote at all!
Hey your video about operation gladio has been age restricted... Cosidering i am eu I have to give a document where I prove that I am a 18+, can u give another link for it pls...?
"O-ra li riconosce-ete, 'sti fascisti, 'ste caro-gne. Se ne tornino alle fogne con gli amici ch'han laggiù. Se ne tornino alle fogne con gli amici ch'han laggiù." (No-w you reco-gnize them, this fascists, this ghouls. May them go back to the sewers with the friends they've got down there. May them go back to the sewers with the friends they've got down there.)
Actually, the fascism of Mussolini and Moseley and not of Hitler (because he wasn’t fascist) isn’t anti-semetic, Mussolini had a Jewish mistress and thousands of Jews were in the fascist party, anti semetic laws were only implemented after alliance with Hitler
But it wasn't anti-anti-semitic either. It never spoke in favor of intercultural equality, and didn't have any ideological opposition to the persecution of jews.
@@jaccocu7213 what do you mean? If you are asking if the Soviet union was in opposition to anti-Semitism than the answer is yes. They freed the jews from the concentration camps they occupied, and ideologically communists view all humans as equals.
Thanks for the great series. As an Italian who lives in Canada, it’s breaking my heart seeing the home land being taken over by fascism with these fuckers.
I must say, fascists never went away. Now they are more visible and overt but they were always there -_- in this sense, there's not really a "coming back" of fascism in Italy, it's just a "coming out".
You're a bit late, the coalition in power in Italy right now has governed Italy for the first time in 1994, they were the same exact three parties (FDI was called AN back then). And they governed numerous times after that: in 2000, 2008, 2011, etc...
@@francescabaldassarri6691 I strongly disagree. After the war the Italian society was strongly antifascist. Fascism started to become fashionable between young people only from the 2010s onward.
@@BesDMarx without you comrade, we're only doomed to repeat histories mistakes. Keep up the amazing work and thanks for educating the masses! Much love from Canada 💜
Buckle up for war with Iran. Even Black Power Media is spewing this nonsense, from two "Iranian-Americans" including one (the ACLU lawyer) who never once set foot in Iran.
I have to watch this video in small sessions. It's great so far but watching it reminds me of just how far communism has been set back. I feel crushed seeing Fascism get so powerful.
if it makes you feel any better. every time fascism gets popular, it was met to be crushed by communism. fascism can’t sustain itself, it will always be toppled
Of course! Or listen like a podcast episode on the side! It is depressing, but it can also be motivating, we need to hurry up in our fight, a single spark can start a great fire.
But we're gaining what we've lost. Just look at the Philippines and India where the 2 parties are gaining more and more popularity and more and more ground in their wars, or Turkey and Greece where the TKP and KKE are gaining popularity.
If you want to see where the battle against Capitalism is being won you won't see it looking at events inside the imperial core, look to China, Africa, and South and Central America. 'Multipolarista', 'Peoples Dispatch', and 'TFI Global' are excellent channels that are reporting victories everyday in the global south.
As an Italian this video has many things right but is absolutely missing the point of why many Italians voted for her. We are simply tired. Tired of left wing governments making fake promises and delivering none. Tired of the continuous declining economical/social situation in Italy. Tired of people form across the globe that keep telling us how to live our life, people that will never understand our problems and needs as a society. I am tired. And before anyone addresses me as racist or some other dumb shit: I’m literally of non Italian descent, like 0% of my genes are Italian. Also unlike what the media tells you, basically nobody in Italy, not even the political opposition being the left, calls the current ruling government Far Right. They are right, nothing more, nothing else. Vast majority of the people who voted for FDI (I didn’t, I left a blank sheet) are simple Italians, tired of the past governments, regardless if they were left or right. And for the people who are scared of a “fascist” rise. No it’s not going to happen, if anyone tries to pull this shit off the government will simply crumble and a new one will be formed, we Italians have an average government life expectancy of just over 1 year. Not gonna happen. The fact that Meloni government is still holding on is on the contrary a sign of somewhat satisfaction form the general public, and unlike what some predicted, no Italy didn’t turn into a fascist utopia or 1984 style dystopia. Life still goes on and things have barely changed for the average citizen. Bear in mind that every time a new party rises and promises the world at the end of the day nothing changes, still the same corruption, the untouchable are still where they have always been, and the politicians are always the same.
Yeah... its a terrible situation, granted not nearly as bad as other countries, however... yeah, we are simply tired, the average italian cant be bothered to watch certain shit happen, so they voted for her. I didn't, i dont like her, she is very inconsistent, for example she calls out magron and france on the shit they pulled with mommy murica with gheddaffi, then she does some dumb stuff afterward
I understand that refugees are a real thing and must be taken care of but why are literally most of the refugees men and why do they come from countries that aren’t war-torn and why does Europe have to take them in. Why can’t European countries just have the embassy inside a military base and then have the refugees go to the military base and then fill out some kind of application that identifies them as refugees and then like a civilian airliner or like a military plane will then bring them to Europe why do they have to come in on thousands of boats.
Because not doing so would make the migrants less miserable. The more miserable and desperate they are, the less business owners have to pay them, and the more politicians can use them as scapegoats amd do nothing to fix society's issues
@@whodis2614 Dictators never saw themselves as such, in their own eyes they were pioneers of their times. History is a pattern that isnt exactly clear in the moment but in the long term makes total since
@@Helga7850 oh, god bless your stunted little brain. your lack of critical thinking is less than pathetic, but the fact you say "dearest" is just embarassing. do you genuinely believe that fascism cannot resurface? The emergence of fascism will always concern me, god willing you mussolini apologists will all be wiped from the face of the earth once more.
Thanks Bes D. Marx for your rigorous analysis of the history of socialist movements in countries stating clearly the material conditions that contributed to their emergence, sustained presence, successes, failures and marginalized presence. I have viewed your 3 part series on the Betrayal of the German Revolution and within it have received immeasurable insight. To produce such content requires hours and hours of commitment to the study of Marxist theory and the history of the evolution of class society in the world on a region by region basis (which I haven't richly participated). Thankyou Comrade, and greetings from the East African country of Kenya.
Chilling memory--- some of your neighbors l--- Somalis, Eritreans. Ethipoians. Libyans all directly suffered from Italian fascism. Can their colonial history also help to understand fascism? Recently?. some one--- who?said that fascism was merely W Euro capitalist using empire colonial.suppression methods in W Euro used in own home countries!!
@@BesDMarx Nothing "rigorous" about this, whoever-you-are 'BesDMarx." Matthew Evangelista just published his documentation of the Allied firebombing of Italy that killed 60,000 Italian civilians, including in my Mother's village. Your video is more about re-affirming the dogmatized narrative rather than telling an honest history.
Love your work! Please consider making a video series on the state of the Italian left. Obviously it will be long and laborious, but specifically I want to know which parties/political formations represent the hope of the left in Italy today? Also whether any senior leaders of the Democratic Party still seriously articulate a left-wing plank or is it entirely a neoliberal party (you can also give a short answer here and/or direct me to any readings/videos since understandably, any potential videos will take much longer to come).
Partito Democratico was an entirely a neoliberal party (its name is literally the italian translation of Democratic Party from the USA). However recently Elly Schlein was elected segretary of PD and both the party and the left coalition is getting radicalised and stronger, giving us young left wing italian hope. Nowdays it seem that Schlein, Conte (segretary of Movimento 5 stelle, another left wing party and the third party by consensus) and Landini (the General Secretary of CGIL) are getting togheter to make an opposition to the governament
communism has led to totalitarian states that have perpetrated genocides everywhere they came to power. It has also completely failed as an economic system . So this lingering obsession with Communism is a very dangerous sign.
Does any comrade in the comments know how I would get my hands on the Book "Faschismus und Kapitalismus von Karsten Heinz Schönbach" shown in this video?
Someone sent Hasan one of these videos on stream and he was like “this only has 3000 views im not watching this” and I said that shit is gonna age poorly because this channel is gonna blow up to be one of the best RU-vid channels on the platform. The politics are on extremely on point, the editing is amazing, great voice over quality, etc.
Extremely interesting video. It's beyond me that we don't talk about this enough in the media. I also suggest doing a video on the RN (used to be FN) party in France, which was founded post-WW2 by an ex Waffen-SS and a nazi sympathiser, whose daughter leads the party, which was the second most popular party for the french presidential and legislative elections of 2022. Ever since late 2021, she's been sugarcoating and ''De-diabolisating'' the party founded by nazis.
I'm Italian and so ashamed of being one... I used to think exactly like these guys and if I stayed in Italy I would have probably ended up being a full-on fascist...
Fascism be like: we are for the workers and the common people *Attacks workers Unions and receives funding from multinational corporations and oil barons*
As an Italian I would like to say that Giorgia Meloni isn’t fascist. Yes she has some democratic conservative ideas but she is moderate and this is why italians voted her.
@@tobywareing6435Why do you need more fascist? What can they do and what needs to be done? Let me guess “Lgbtq degenerates🦧”. Mf let people life and dont worry about pedophilia there your catholic religion has enough of a pedophilia problem as it is
@@mek101whatif7 Il vero fascismo risiede nelle azioni non nei simboli, non possiamo negare la nostra storia e non penso che una persona possa essere tacciata di fascismo solo per una fiammella… E poi basta con sta storia sono passati un 80ina d’anni 🙄
You really did a great, majestic Job. i'm Italian and in this video you even mentioned facts that i didn't even knew ! Congratulation again on this great analysis, Non-Italians (and a lot of Italians...) really SHOULD watch this !
Extremely scary. However I tend to see this wave of (barely undercover) fascism as weak, lacking the vigor of classical fascism largely because (as the support for Trump in the USA-2016 revealed) relies heavily on the older generation and their distorted nostalgia of "the good old times" (this may be different for southern equivalente phenomena like Bolsonarism, Modi-ism or Islamo-Fascism, sure, I mean in the US Empire, where ageing is a major socio-demographic problem and a main driver of cheap young immigrant exploitation, an issue that the neofascists capitalize on hypocritically). But I may well be wrong after all. What this video suggested to me is that maybe, now like in the 1920s and 30s, fascism may well just be the method by which the Anglosaxon Empire (NATO-plus, now in deep crisis and rather radical reform) chooses to rule Europe or much of it. That is very scary, although I don't think that "forever" is even a word we should use: too pessimistically Orwellian IMO, things do change, especially in times of deep crisis as the ones we're experiencing now. Back to my pre-existing interpretation, IMHO today's "Western" fascism is vigorless and can't really manage Capitalism any better than the authoritarian-liberal version (Ali's "extreme center") that has dominated it in the last several decades. It only exacerbates the social contradictions and can only ultimately produce failed states like Ukraine. They can repress more and more violently and absurdly even (but that's a trend we already see with extreme center governments) but such repression only exacerbates dissafection, it does not solve it in any way. It may briefly rally the "worker aristocracy", while the lack of radicalism and efficiency in the left deactivates the core proletariat (which is generally not attracted to the far right), but, as it can't deliver (no more clolonial plundering, no more eco-devastation are possible), it will soon become weak and produce a collapse of one sort or another, not more stability. The real background problem is not so much that fascism represses socialism/communism (which is of course a big problem) but that revolutionary socialism (or anything of the like) is weak. This is particularly true in the case of Italy, which went from having the strongest communist party of Western Europe to having no left whatsoever. The liberal transformation of the PCI into the PDI (a clone of the US Democratic Party) and the lack of any sort of real resurgence of communism or radical socialism in any way (Rifundazione totally failed and Cinque Stelle is too far towards the "extreme center") is the real problem, much like the betrayals of Syriza in Greece or Podemos in Spain (let alone The Greens in Germany, which is older but still the same) are the real problem. While in Italy the more hardcore socialist movement collapsed long ago, that's less true in core Western Europe however (with contradictions and limitations), particularly in France and Britain. France also has a consolidated neofascist movement, one of the oldests of Europe, but simultaneously has a very strong "far left" (?), from the powerful unions to the Yellow Jackets going through the somewhat interesting rise of La France Insoumisse (arguably another Syriza/Podemos but not in government yet) and some marginated but still influential Trotskyist minor parties. In Britain, the astonishing tide of Corbynism, a current that no doubt Engels would have cheered and participated, was such a real threat to the bourgeois establishment that they had to resort to unleash the Brexit (which is suicidal and only aggravates the crisis of British capitalism) in order to deactivate it by transferring the political debate to a question where Labour, especially Corbynism, had no stand (what directed voters to the bourgeois parties, which generally made a strong issue of the EU question). If you didn't realize (I didn't myself for years), just look at the chronologies of Corbynism and Brexitism: they overlap almost totally. Also worth mentioning are the far left (strongly communist) nascent movements in Spain, most notably the Catalan CUP recently but now rather the Basque Socialist Movement, not anymore tied by mere nationalism (even if still independentist) but focused on building communism across nationalities and thus fueling similar organizations across all Spain and beyond. So there is at least some actual class war (from the prole side), with a very serious potential to destabilize and even run over over the bourgeois regimes, especially in Western Europe. Luckily not all is like Poland or Italy, let alone brain-dead Germany. And I guess that there is some chance that fascism moves west in order to tackle such proletarian rumble by utter violence. There's been already some of that under authoritarian "extreme center" governments but it's unclear how neofascism can "improve" on bourgeois governance, on keeping the "social peace" in the middle of a crisis that has Britons very especially having to choose between "eating or heating", as Waters recently denounced before the UN. In the end Marx and Engels may have been right when they "predicted" that the communist revolutionary outbreak may happen in the key Western European countries such as France or Britain. Soon to tell, sure. Whatever the case, IMO neofascism is rather a shadow of classical fascism and somehow we seem to be quickly running over the early 20th century's cycle in reverse order, i.e. the resurgence of fascism probably anticipates the resurgence of what preceded it: the great revolutionary wave of 1917-21, on whose shoulders we stand one way or another. One thing is very different: today's proletariat is not at all anymore the quasi-peasant one of those days, todays proletariat is a fully formed (educated, connected) class, which (at least in the developed world) has almost totally forgotten its peasant roots and is potentially a true revolutionary subject that can decidedly take over the centers of classical capitalist power if organized (rather collective willpower than mere consciousness is what is needed). I look forward with great hope in spite of all.
Really great video here. I plan on showing this to some friends of mine who are concerned about the rise of fascism in Italy and the rest of Europe. You explained things in a very digestible way for people who are somewhat apolitical, so I’m sure this will be shared everywhere. Keep this up!
For today everything is called fascist if you are against the 'standards'....there is a gap between right and extremism and fascism and she is just extremist
And she sounds based, the media hates her for being against the American Regime and globalism, its was perfectly reasonable to protect the country culture.
Fantastic video! Seeing this whole thing play out the way it is gives me a much clearer picture of how and why Hitler and Mussolini faced such little resistance from liberals and moderate conservatives back in the day. Seeing the same thing happening now with Meloni is an incredibly disturbing development.
I visited Italy once (Rome) and even thought I wasn't really engaged with politics at that time that place had a fascist vibe all over. I couldn't explain it but even thought everything was beautiful I felt uneasy
and yet in Rome, there were the greatest battles of partisans (look up "via Rasella") during ww2 and whole neighbourhoods united to fight the nazi-fascists (look up "Quadraro", "Centocelle", "Quarticciolo"). Rome is huge and has many souls and to ascribe a fleeting feeling to such a place is to make a disservice to it and to yourself. In Rome, you just need to walk a little more to find something totally different!
@@francescabaldassarri6691 That's why I don't appreciate tourism (not meaning travel in general). But at the same time you say who the mayor of Rome is.
Fantastic historical accounting, research, linear structure, analysis, and narration. I watch all three videos and all three were excellent! Keep up to great work!
No, when the right supports births it is for political and/or ethnic determination. Wanting families to make more children purely for labor and fodder is more common in leftists militarised worker states like the soviet union.
Lol, that you think Meloni is an actual fascist is embarrassing. Who knew that believing in things like family, loving one’s country and following a religion made one a fascist. Think 99.99% of the world is fascist by that metric.
No she is fascist for thinking musolini was a good ruler. Being in the party called “musolini is immortal”. Supporting openly racists people in her party and having a husband who thinks that south italians are genetically lazy and subhumans
Did you somehow watch the videos with your eyes closed?? How much Nazi memorabilia, Nazi Saluting, she even said she liked Benito Mussolini a known facist who led the National Facist Party. She very well is a facist.
@@TheYolo20 She actually didn't say Mussolini was a "good ruler", she said he was a good politician, which... I mean who argues that? There are plenty of politicians who are good politicians but bad people. Her words as posted in the video: "He made some mistakes" "Historically however, He had also created a lot, but this did not absolve him." That's 2 negative statements to 1 neutral statement, how do you mistake that for supporting Mussolini? He is a former Italian leader, obviously people are gonna talk about him, he did things some things that were beneficial for the state, her recognition of that does not imply support.
@@denniswilkerson5536 “Hitler was a good politician, yes he made some mistakes but historically however he created also a lot but this did not absolve him.” This is nazi and fascim apologia. Saying musolini was a good politician is an admittance to being a fascist. A politician can not be good when being a fascist. In what was he good? Killing jews/Roma and loosing wars with greece? Also these statements are separate she later stated that he made mistakes but i bet she does not think the mistakes were the same we mean today.
Sadly, germany was never de-nazified either, which lead to the sadly unsuccesfull revolt of 68. You werent happen to be planning to tackle that next? Either way, great damn series man. The quality of these is insane.
If there’s one thing East Germany/DDR did right, it was the complete denazification of its population. On the contrary, West Germany gave Nazis high ranking positions in corporations, banks, and the government. With the triumph of capitalism in the Cold War, we see nuggets of fascism rising in Germany again.
Germany was never denazified? It is literally illegal to present as a Nazi or rally as a fascist in Germany, and to show the swastika (including historical context) or even sing songs associated with the Nazi party. What are you on about??
@@verbosequestion Cool little laws. Our government was still made up of former Nazi officials. The first BRD Bundestag had more Nazis in it than when Hitler became chancellor. Our army, our secret services and police, all made up of former Nazis. Because someone had to help against the evil, evil red tide!!!1111 Funnily enough, the dude who made this video actually did tackle the topic by now. So maybe you should give those ones a watch and research the Braunbuch.
Hey so just a minor thing I noticed, when you mentioned the Freikorps being the "movement" that led to the Nazi party. The Freikorps were around since the days of Frederik the Great.
Great overview, and unapologetically thorough. Thank you so very much for this. Watching you all the way from faraway Abu Dhabi, after stumbling upon your channel by sheer coincidence. Keep up the great work brother! 💪
Excellent videos, even if it frightens me for the future. I'm wondering if you plan on doing something on the French far-right ? As a Frenchman I've seen my country going from "LePen = Far-right fascistic" to "LePen = right" with the intervention of Zemmour (and his polemical views), which permitted the RN (with its false proletarian rethoric) to appear more reasonable. And I'm yet to find someone talking about fascism in France like you did for Italy. Anyway I'm excited to see what you will do next time, and thank you for your immense work.
