Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 01:03:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Thomas Seay <entheogens-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: AUT: Translation of Casarini on Biagi Assasination


Here is my translation of Casarini's surprizing
statement on the Biagi assasination.  Please
circulate.
The original can be found at:
http://www.sherwood.it/portal/article.php?sid=1644&mode=&order=0

To All Civil Society by Luca Casarini (translated from
the Italian by Thomas Seay)

What happened in Bologna is a horrible pro-regime
homicide. 
I reaffirm this and I will continue to state this with
all my might along with thousands and thousands of
people, knowing that this thought is shared by a lot
of people.  

What does this mean?  It means that it is not the
"terrorism", as the term is being used, of a previous
time in this country.
Nor is it the "strategy of tension", which was
inaugurated in 1969 with a state planted fascist bomb
in Piazza Fontana.  Those two settings were completely
different from today, as were the culture, the
political and social climate in Italy as in the rest
of the world.  The needs of the various state
apparatus were different, the "field of action", the
nation-state
was different.  The thinking of thousands of youth,
who wanted to fight with arms, was different.

Professor Biagi has been "had" killed in this time,
today.  Whoever reads the delirious emails going round
from those claiming responsibility can come to
understand a great deal.  The culture expressed in
those pages is dead and buried, with the society and
among the extraordinary new movements struggling for a
new democracy.

That culture which speaks of "imperialism" instead, as
we do, of Empire, that culture which wants the
"Dictatorship of the Proleteriat" (what proleteriat? 
Dictatorship?  Of what...globalization?) and not real
democracy; those skillfully composed phrases from
highly informed notions of economics and absurd
prehistoric readings of social development are not
expressions of a living, real subjectivity.

They betray an abstraction of reasoning which belongs
more to maniacal psychotic pathology than to political
line.  To attribute to this, as some are doing, a
"destabilizing design" would be like attributing to it
the crime of the Florence "Monster" or to a serial
killer who comes out here and there.  These are serial
homicides not actions expressing a political will. 
But they become political because they get spinned as
such by some political "manoeuvrer".  They are
homicides that stabilize.  They serve only those who
want to stop
the large-scale movements, to those who want to drag
us into a war against civilians, as we have seen in
Genova, New York and Afgahnistan in order to produce a
new despotic, anti-democratic sovereignty in which
violation of human rights is standard fare.

It was a pro-regime homicide not only for the ignoble
political uses for which it is applied by the Italian
Manufacturers Association, the government and
political apparatuses, even those of the Left which
instead of saying what they know deep down continue to
cover up evidence.  It was also because it had been
announced, even called for by ministers, cabinet
members, and undersecretaries.  It was called for
because the social 
struggles for rights and democracy, which had
expressed itself in these years in such a radical,
pacifist, disobedient way, still posed a danger.

Marco Biagi knew he was in danger.  He had asked many
times for protection but was denied it by Minister
Scajola of Genoa.

The article in a weekly magazine that clearly depicted
Biagi as a target
should probably be read as an attempt by someone
within one of the apparatuses
to make the plan to kill Biagi fail.  The article had
the sense to say as much in its preface.
Even the telephone call received by the professor on
Tuesday should be read more as a warning than a
threat.
If someone wants to kill you, they dont warn you
first.

Here we are in the presence of a clash between State
apparatuses.
It is this complexity that explains the pro-regime
homicide.
It is the use of the one and the other - seven sickos
with a famous logo
and the military which moves about in full liberty -
that explains what 
is happening now.  While immigrants are confronted by
navy boats,
the government calls a state of emergency.  While
more and more impunity is shown towards the powerful
and
corrupt, the weak are thrown in prison.  While control
of information
is centralized into fewer hands in a society that
lives on information,
the regime trys to block independent media out of
existence.

These are my thoughts.  About this thing in the last
delirious document
put out by the sect that calls itself NTA.  I have
been targeted
as someone to take out. Maroni [Italian Minister of
Labor, Lega Norda]
has also marked me as a tarket to take out, naming me
by first and last name.
So we see that the two are in agreement.  If they want
to take me out
they know that on the 23rd I will be in Rome with my
comrades.
And I will struggle for a strike...of the entire
country for a new democracy.

===="The tradition of all the dead generations
 weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"

-Karl Marx

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