“A system crisis”. “The rupture of democracy”. The former Christian Democrat minister Paolo Cirino Pomicino and the art historian Tomaso Montanari, guests of the political talk ‘Agreements & Disagreements’, with Luca Sommi, with the participation of Marco Travaglio, broadcast on New every Wednesday at 9:25 pm, I agree on these two definitions after last weekend’s local elections showed an incredible rate of abstention. “It is right that this is the definition: a system crisis, impressive – said the former holder of the Budget – The Italian left, but not only the Italian one, has done nothing but marry wild liberalism. And, since the beginning of the 1980s, a policy was born that led to the growth of financial capitalism which is the sworn enemy of the market economy. And not by chance, in these thirty years, we have seen that today 1% of the world population controls 50% of world wealth and 30% controls 77. Of course it flows a river of social anger even in Western democracies, with a risk, be careful, that in reality the fascinating model becomes the Chinese one, which marries the market economy with political authoritarianism ”. Also for the Vice Rector of the University for Foreigners of Siena, “The crux is precisely this: by not voting the majority of citizens, not only a social pact has been broken, but I would say that democracy is broken. That is, a democracy in which the majority of citizens do not vote, it is not a true democracy ”.
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