In becoming a mafioso Bernardino Verro was far from typical of Fasci leaders; and in leaving a written account of how he became one, he was unique among mafia initiates at the time. But Verro’s story—which would only come to light after his murder—is nonetheless highly significant. For a long time it was treated with perplexed scepticism by left-wing writers.
Over the sixty years and more that followed the flowering of the Fasci movement, mafiosi would intimidate and murder countless socialists, Communists, and trade union leaders—so many, in fact, that it came to seem as if the mafia’s very purpose was to batter the organized working class in the countryside into submission. And yet here, at the very origins of Italian peasant socialism, was a socialist hero consorting with the mafia.
John Lennon'ın Working Class Hero şarkısından sözler
Her gün uyutuyorlar sizi, televizyonla, dinle, seksle
Pek zeki, sınıfsız ve özgür sanıyorsunuz kendinizi siz de
Reklam
Working Class Hero
Şarkıda çoğumuzun hayatını anlatıyor Lennon aslında. Üstelik bu şarkıda anlatılanları yaşamış olmak için ille de işçi sınıfından olmak şart değil. Özellikle çocukluk ve çocukluktan gençliğe geçişi anlatan ilk üç kıta hangimize çok yabancı ki?
As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Tillthe pain is so big you feel nothing at all
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