Regional celebrations of democracy have churned out for Lazio and Lombardy an unequivocal verdict: the right has "won", the bourgeois left has "lost". Although the democratic hype laments the fall in voter turnout, which has become a minority phenomenon.

Certainly the political bestiary in vogue does not shine with "seriousness and competence", those compassionate and hypocritical attitudes that characterized the first decades of the republic’s history, when the political class feigned that tribute to virtue that motivates lying. The deployments no longer even advance the semblance of ideas, no longer an ideological vision of a world, but a primordial soup of prejudices, of automatic mottos, running mindlessly.

We will not stand for the easy analogy with the nibelung "night and fog" of the Third Reich, we will not cry out for fascism as if it were new: on that horse the bourgeoisie has been swinging for more than a century, in open dictatorship as in the swamped one in democratic garb, from it it will not and cannot dismount.

The same fog envelops the bands of figures in the electoral liturgy, fictitious deployments on "divisive" issues, infuriating some, reassuring others, in a universality of superstitions, reactionary and patriotic enthusiasms or resignation to the existing disguised as rationalism. Immigration, security, terrorism, crime, easy to arouse ephemeral urges in the media artifact that is "public opinion".

It is an excellent ploy commissioned from a class of politicians, at the service of the bourgeois ruling class, which now has no economic tools or margins to deal with the crisis: it engages in battle with what the situation allows.

Everything is ground down. Much of the electoral propaganda this time has focused on the affair of anarchist Alfredo Cospito’s hunger strike. It has emerged from the boisterous polemics that the whole "parliamentary arc" is in favor of maintaining 41-bis. Even the "leftist" parties themselves.

The reality is that each ruling class attributes to its state only one end, principle and norm: to defend its interests, if not its survival in power, by any means. Anything that serves this is legal and legally enshrined. The law of war applies.

One pounces on the poor man not to punish individual action, but to oil the legislative, jurisprudential, police and propaganda devices to strike tomorrow at those who stand at the antipodes of the anarchist’s theory and methods. The bourgeoisie takes the run-up by preparing public opinion for the climate of open police control. It counts on assimilating into the category of "terrorism" every movement of collective discontent of the proletariat.

A question arises, however: how long can the raging river of future workers’ uprisings be kept within the banks of legality if they are too narrow?

The oppressed class already shows a growing disaffection with the pretense and liturgies of democracy, and it is increasingly difficult to convince them that it is useful to get in line to determine which is the least abject of the bourgeois political factions, which is the least "dishonest" and rapacious.

Il Partito Comunista, number 420, January - February 2023