Struggle in Italy (Lotte in Italia)

STRUGGLE IN ITALY

Who is it? What's happening?

In the history of human knowledge

the laws of development have always been viewed in two ways.

One is metaphysical and the other dialectical.

So there are two ways of viewing the world - idealism and Marxism.

I am Marxist. I am part of the revolutionary movement.

Militancy.

After the meeting organised by comrades from Monte Mario

the police arrested three ML activists

who were handing out leaflets

in support of the just cause of the Palestinian people

against Israel, the lackey of imperialism.

Now these three comrades

are accused of conspiring against state security.

But who is conspiring and against whom?

The state is conspiring against the Italian people.

To be attacked by the enemy

is a good thing.

Let's popularise the popular struggle

against imperialism.

Let foreigners act as nationals.

When revolutionaries analyse the war of the people

the bourgeoisie takes fright.

It realises that analysing the war of the people

will serve to turn their weapons against it,

against its state apparatus its police and its army.

I know the Communist Party has held meetings on Lenin before

but the revisionists need stirring up sometimes.

Gas is very important for the Russians. It replaces petrol.

They've signed an agreement with Eni, a state-run firm.

For Soviet revisionists it's an economic struggle

to get established in Europe.

The class struggle will be forgotten.

The failure of spontaneity at Fiat.

Agreement in the steel industry. We hope for a calm winter.

Politics governs the economy. The revolution governs production.

A real victory for the steelworkers.

A mild winter, a real victory.

A mild winter, a real victory.

Between Marxism and revisionism there is a continual hard struggle

where political and economic ties are concerned.

The university.

The same old story.

The real crux of the matter.

Science.

I ask you for practical explanations but you refuse to give them to me.

A king decides to appoint a prime minister

and appeals for applicants.

Do you see the problem? Why a king appointing a prime minister?

Why not militants appointing a shop steward?

It's not as simple as that.

I've got to go. Let's discuss it on Tuesday.

Society.

A sweater.

No, I think I need a shirt.

It's a best seller.

30,000 lire for a peasant blouse?

Look at the work.

- Are you interested in this book? - Yes.

I know the people who wrote it.

If you like, we can go and discuss it with them.

No talking to the customers!

Society.

Society.

Family.

You should be studying instead of talking to your friends.

They're comrades.

While you wait for your revolution you're happy sleeping and eating here.

You're taking advantage of me and your mother.

All right, Mum. I'll keep quiet.

Health.

When you argue with your father, it makes me anxious and ill.

There are doctors for that.

I can ask my university friends for the address of a psychoanalyst.

Housing.

Leave me in peace.

If you want a bathroom then get a job to pay for a flat.

A true Communist has to put the revolution first,

before their own interests.

You don't know what you're talking about, you old fool.

Character.

I've told you time and again not to touch my things.

Sex.

It's the 15th and we've run out of money already.

I promise we'll make an effort next month.

I'm sick of living with other people.

Listen, we'll talk about it tomorrow. I'm too tired tonight.

Identity.

Violence in the factories.

Workers in the streets.

Identity papers!

Identity papers!

Identity.

Identity.

M-7-2-4-6-4.

That's me.

Are you Paola Taviani? Then it's your turn.

One ticket for a student, please.

Do you have a student card?

Well? What happened?

That wasn't really me you just saw.

It was just bits of me.

It wasn't the real me, just a reflection.

Reflection.

Reality.

Reflection.

Reality.

What's happening? Your life divided under headings,

like a university subject, all part of a whole.

You realise the whole is imaginary. You wonder how it works.

Reflection.

Reality.

The imaginary whole, the conditions of your existence,

the relationship between them, what does it mean?

What did I say at the start?

I said, "There is, there is."

There is Marxism, there is idealism.

But I didn't say that Marxism was fighting idealism.

What else did I say?

A metaphysical conception and a dialectical conception

have given rise to two opposing conceptions of the world.

Opposing conceptions.

They were opposing. That's what I had forgotten.

So I called myself a Marxist but in fact I was still an idealist.

There are two conceptions of the world.

To find out why they are opposing you need to know how they work.

Yes, the first part worked with reflections of you

separated by black screens.

Black screens.

Black screens.

Who produced these black screens?

Black screens.

What is this black screen replacing?

What links your reflections to these black screens?

You discover that the first part was an organised whole

centred under the heading: society.

The relationship between the black screens

and the images of you stems from there.

That relationship has a name - ideology.

Ideology.

Relationship.

Necessarily.

Imaginary.

Weighty.

The real conditions of your existence.

Reflections.

Reflections.

Reflections.

Black screen.

Reality.

Reality.

Reality.

Reality.

Ideology.

Relationship.

Necessarily imaginary.

Weighty.

The real conditions of your existence.

Necessarily imaginary relationship

with the real conditions

of your existence.

Ideology.

Function of ideology.

Daily, uninterrupted reproduction

of the relations of production in the consciousness

In other words...

In other words, adjusting, organising,

your practical behaviour

in society.

Today in Italy,

the function of bourgeois ideology.

Every day ensuring

the uninterrupted reproduction

of the relations of production in the consciousness.

In other words,

organising your practical behaviour

in Italian capitalist society.

People's social existence determines their thoughts.

You know Marxism is not about explaining the world

but about actively transforming it.

Practice, theory, practice.

Here are the books you asked for.

Practice. Practice.

Theory.

Everyone experiences the work of organising.

It's easy for you. You don't work.

Practice.

Practice.

You give maths lessons to a young worker.

He asks you a question.

Attempt at a theory.

You listen to the question instead of telling him to be quiet.

But return to practice.

You don't know what to say to him.

Practice.

You live with a boy. You ask one another questions.

Theory. You look to Engels for the answers.

"The first division of labour is between men and women

"at the time of procreation."