
to which it is impossible to answer without deal with a more general issue: that of historical presence in the Italian company of a fund of violence hard, tough, which has always opposed an insurmountable obstacle to spreading the culture of legality. It is no coincidence that Italy is the home of the most important historical organizations of the European crime.
The Italian political sphere has been deeply marked by the violence. Arisen from a revolutionary movement to statehood with some sections of civil war, precisely as was the Risorgimento, the idea that under certain conditions violence is permissible (even necessary) has characterized so every one of the modern political cultures that have saw the light of the peninsula, which have their roots in the more authentic reality of our history: the maximalist socialism, national-fascism, communism Gramsci, action.
All cultures in one way or another were fed and fed the myth of the revolution, whatever the adjective that was then stuck. At ground level, in practice, did the only exception and Catholic political culture. If it were not for that, as you know, it is likely that there would be neither democratic Italy that we had instead.
But history is not water. Italy democratic, even if this was still the daughter of a story that had developed an ancient and long proximity to violence, in form, as I said, the revolutionary myth (originally, not least, with the Resistance, the very legitimacy of the Republic). The democracy that we could not live side by side and often intertwined, with this myth and its culture, both appropriately transformed into the size of the 'utopia', still regarded by the Italian political common sense the most eminent and politics can put in place. While the rule of law, from all to talk honored and revered, in fact only moves the mind to shoot, sparutissime minorities who are, in fact, even today, those (starting with the Interior Minister, call or Pisanu Amato) that in front of the block of a station by a group of strikers scams or sanitary certificates of public employees rely on the fist of the law?
In fact, the germ and that its illegality extreme manifestation that violence is the democratic Italy brings in a sense within itself, its history and cultural anthropology in its so credited. And that's why she never failed and can not eradicate it even today.
by Corriere della Sera