«Democracy always exists fight for democracy which too often, I first of all, together with the generation of the last kids of the last century, have not listened. We, privileged children of a decadent West, who lived in an eternal present, breaking the history of civil commitment of our parents and grandparents.”
«An illiberal turning point is underway. It is a fact that intellectuals
free people, writers, artists and scholars are indicated by the current government
as enemies. Regardless of my personal case, a monologue
which celebrated the anti-fascist resistance has been cancelled.”
These are the words spoken today, Sunday 12 December, by the Italian writer and journalist Antonio Scurati during his speech at the Turin International Book Fair. In fact, the intellectual wanted to comment on the episode in which he was the protagonist last April 25th when, on the occasion of the Liberation Day, he was supposed to read on RAI, during the broadcast What will be conducted by Serena Bortone and skipped at the last minute due to a decision by the management of the public television broadcaster.
«A gloomy morning then we woke up from the 1980s and we have begun to become aware that democracy is a recent historical achievement, fragile, threatened, limited to a piece of the world that is increasingly shrinking – continued Scurati -. Although the last few weeks have forced me into this role of symbol and flag bearer, I am a writer. And it is precisely this, despite myself, that I found myself in this situation: precisely because of the books I wrote, like Fascism and populism Mussolini today And The emme trilogy. Scurati then criticized all totalitarianisms, from communism to fascism, reiterating how “the current crisis of democracy that we are going through has analogies with the crisis of a hundred years ago, which hit our country”.
