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It'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's review a few of them in this thread!
There are plenty of better and more recent Italian role models. Let'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 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 Fo, playwright, author of "Accidental Death of an Anarchist"
https://libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch.pdf
Mariarosa 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 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 Malatesta, who fought the cholera epidemic of 1884
https://cwc.im/cholera
Camillo Berneri, professor of philosophy and anti-fascist
https://crimethinc.com/2017/10/30/restless-specters-of-the-anarchist-dead-a-few-words-from-the-undead-of-1917#luigi-camillo-berneri
Gaetano Bresci, weaver and publisher
https://cwc.im/bresci
Errico Malatesta, who fought the cholera epidemic of 1884
https://cwc.im/cholera
Camillo Berneri, professor of philosophy and anti-fascist
https://crimethinc.com/2017/10/30/restless-specters-of-the-anarchist-dead-a-few-words-from-the-undead-of-1917#luigi-camillo-berneri
Maria Roda, labor organizer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Roda
Sante Caserio, the subject of many Italian folk songs
https://archive.elephanteditions.net/library/sante-caserio
Pietro Gori, lawyer, poet, and playwright
https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/t76jd6
Severino di Giovanni, publisher of Élisée Reclus
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/osvaldo-bayer-anarchism-and-violence-severino-di-giovanni-in-argentina-1923-1931
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Roda
Sante Caserio, the subject of many Italian folk songs
https://archive.elephanteditions.net/library/sante-caserio
Pietro Gori, lawyer, poet, and playwright
https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/t76jd6
Severino di Giovanni, publisher of Élisée Reclus
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/osvaldo-bayer-anarchism-and-violence-severino-di-giovanni-in-argentina-1923-1931
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's absolutely no need to retrofit Christopher Columbus for that role—nor to celebrate colonial violence.
There'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.
