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It& #39;s strange to us that Rudy Giuliani is calling it "anti-Italian" to criticize the man who initiated colonial conquest for Spain hundreds of years before Italy existed.
There are plenty of better and more recent Italian role models. Let& #39;s review a few of them in this thread!
There are plenty of better and more recent Italian role models. Let& #39;s review a few of them in this thread!
Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch:
https://libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch.pdf
Mariarosa">https://libcom.org/files/Cal... Dalla Costa, co-author of "The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community" with Selma James:
https://thecommoner.org/tribute/tribute-to-the-work-of-mariarosa-dalla-costa/
Dario">https://thecommoner.org/tribute/t... Fo, playwright, author of "Accidental Death of an Anarchist"
https://libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch.pdf
Mariarosa">https://libcom.org/files/Cal... Dalla Costa, co-author of "The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community" with Selma James:
https://thecommoner.org/tribute/tribute-to-the-work-of-mariarosa-dalla-costa/
Dario">https://thecommoner.org/tribute/t... Fo, playwright, author of "Accidental Death of an Anarchist"
Primo Levi, author of Survival in Auschwitz
Gaetano Bresci, weaver and publisher
https://cwc.im/bresci
Errico">https://cwc.im/bresci&qu... Malatesta, who fought the cholera epidemic of 1884
https://cwc.im/cholera
Camillo">https://cwc.im/cholera&q... Berneri, professor of philosophy and anti-fascist
#luigi-camillo-berneri">https://crimethinc.com/2017/10/30/restless-specters-of-the-anarchist-dead-a-few-words-from-the-undead-of-1917 #luigi-camillo-berneri">https://crimethinc.com/2017/10/3...
Gaetano Bresci, weaver and publisher
https://cwc.im/bresci
Errico">https://cwc.im/bresci&qu... Malatesta, who fought the cholera epidemic of 1884
https://cwc.im/cholera
Camillo">https://cwc.im/cholera&q... Berneri, professor of philosophy and anti-fascist
#luigi-camillo-berneri">https://crimethinc.com/2017/10/30/restless-specters-of-the-anarchist-dead-a-few-words-from-the-undead-of-1917 #luigi-camillo-berneri">https://crimethinc.com/2017/10/3...
Maria Roda, labor organizer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Roda
Sante">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari... Caserio, the subject of many Italian folk songs
https://archive.elephanteditions.net/library/sante-caserio
Pietro">https://archive.elephanteditions.net/library/s... Gori, lawyer, poet, and playwright
https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/t76jd6
Severino">https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/t76jd6&qu... di Giovanni, publisher of Élisée Reclus
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/osvaldo-bayer-anarchism-and-violence-severino-di-giovanni-in-argentina-1923-1931">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Roda
Sante">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari... Caserio, the subject of many Italian folk songs
https://archive.elephanteditions.net/library/sante-caserio
Pietro">https://archive.elephanteditions.net/library/s... Gori, lawyer, poet, and playwright
https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/t76jd6
Severino">https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/t76jd6&qu... di Giovanni, publisher of Élisée Reclus
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/osvaldo-bayer-anarchism-and-violence-severino-di-giovanni-in-argentina-1923-1931">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/o...
History offers many more examples of enterprising Italians who become deservingly famous in their field—Sacco and Vanzetti, Luigi Galleani, Carlo Tresca, Mary Nardini.
There& #39;s absolutely no need to retrofit Christopher Columbus for that role—nor to celebrate colonial violence.
There& #39;s absolutely no need to retrofit Christopher Columbus for that role—nor to celebrate colonial violence.
Finally, it is ironic that Rudy Giuliani accuses "the Democrats" of imprisoning a statue of Columbus in a box, when Giuliani himself has been responsible for imprisoning countless thousands of real human beings—and it is hardly Democrats leading the charge against Columbus.
