Kiev Communard
13th July 2011, 12:37
It seems that after Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain it is now Italy's turn to be hit by the so-called "sovereign debt crisis" (which is in fact just the return of the formerly "financial crisis" that was merely derailed into the sphere of public finances after all of the bailouts). The problem is that the Marxist-Leninist/Eurocommunist Left of Italy was destroyed by its own follies in the 1980s to the 2000s (with Rifondazione falling victim to its parliamentary cretinism/coalitionism in 2008), and the libertarian/syndicalist Left is extremely weak in that country.
So what do you think may happen in the sphere of class struggle in Italy if it goes through the same economic problems as Greece? After all, Italy, together with France and Spain, has always been one of the "classical" revolutionary countries in the Continent (with autonomia movement of the 1960s to 1970s being the latest in the line). Is there any hope for such a tradition being resumed/continued in modern Italy, or did the generations of PCI opportunism/reformism finally lead to the undermining of Italian revolutionary workers' movement?
So what do you think may happen in the sphere of class struggle in Italy if it goes through the same economic problems as Greece? After all, Italy, together with France and Spain, has always been one of the "classical" revolutionary countries in the Continent (with autonomia movement of the 1960s to 1970s being the latest in the line). Is there any hope for such a tradition being resumed/continued in modern Italy, or did the generations of PCI opportunism/reformism finally lead to the undermining of Italian revolutionary workers' movement?