Some aspects of the southern question

by Antonio Gramsci, Unfinished, October 1926

These notes were initially stimulated by the publication of an article on the Southern question by "Ulenspiegel" in the 18 September issue of the journal Quarto Stato, and by the somewhat comical editorial presentation which preceded it. "Ulenspiegel" informed his readers of Guido Dorso's recent book La Rivoluzione meridionale (pub. Piero Gobetti, Turin, 1925), and alluded to the author's assessment of our party's position on the southern question. 246 In their presentation, the editors of Quarto Stato - who proclaim themselves to be "young people who know the Southern problem thoroughly in its general lines" [sic] - protest Collectively at the idea that the Communist Party can be accorded any "merits". Nothing wrong so far: young people of the Quarto Stato type have always and everywhere expressed extreme opinions and violent protests on paper, without the paper rebelling. But then these "young people" add the following words: "We have not forgotten that the magical formula of the Turin Communists used to be: divide the big estates among the rural proletariat. This formula is at the antipodes from any sound, realistic vision of the Southern problem." And here it becomes necessary to set the record straight, since the only thing that is "magical" is the impudence and superficial dilettantism of the "young" writers of Quarto Stato.

Rifare il mondo

di Richard Pithouse, Guerro Contro, 23 febbraio 2011

Appena sono arrivati i primi rapporti non confermati di attacchi aerei contro i manifestanti a Tripoli e Bengasi attraveso l’emittente Aljazeera ha parlato un portavoce dell’Unione Europea. Si è sentito parlare della necessità di affermare i “valori europei”. Pochi istanti dopo il programma ha tagliato la notizia dei due piloti libici che sono atterrati a Malta e hanno chiesto asilo politico, piuttosto che eseguire l’ordine di attaccare i dimostranti a Bengasi.