@e_flux wrote:
At the Verso blog, David Broder reflects on the results of the Italian election over the weekend, in which a right-wing coalition of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia and the hard-right Lega took the greatest share of votes, followed by the populist Five Star Movement (M5S). The various leftist parties were far behind. Broder cautions against assuming this will lead to to a return to fascism in Italy, instead suggesting that government gridlock and further disenchantment with politicians is the more likely outcome. Here's an excerpt:
The rise of Lega and the M5S is grim news for anyone who believes in progressive politics, or who retains some memory of the Italian Left's past glories. In France, when Macron and Le Pen reached the second round, we could at least see that France Insoumise had laid down a marker. In the UK Labour has advanced, and even in the US the Sanders campaign provided a platform for Left renewal. 4 March offered no such room for hope. But nor is panic about some alleged "rising Fascism" going to offer it. As one old Marxist once put it: the old is dying, and something superficially different but not all that new has been born. May other things be born, and soon.
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