MARCO ZAMBIA
Like when someone like the president of the region, poses a critical issue, triumphant rhetoric and denigration. That is the way to continue learning and not let things slide as always. Question the value to be attached to the Unity of Italy and its consequences remains an essential step. That's why, instead of trumpeting empty proclamations or wear the mask of subjection, should be the facts in the knowledge that can not exist without national consciousness historical truth
A story will always be part of the service of a part of the country. And the UDC, as a party of the nation, knows that history is not a matter to be left to historians and serves to unite, not divide. According to an authoritative argument, the gap between North and South would be determined at a distance of fifty years from the Unification of Italy, due to the industrialization of the North-west.
There was, however, explained why quell'industrializzazione has been limited only to certain geographical areas. It was a coincidence or a strategic choice? And, for example, Mongiana (Calabria), one of the best steel companies in Europe, with 1,200 workers in assets, closed the Unification, it was not perhaps in that industrial policy provided that, since unification, which area the country should produce goods and another had to eat them? And that industrialization did not need a system infrastructure (road, railways, ports, energy, etc ...) that has in fact created in the North and the South? And it continues to need it today? Not to mention that, from an industry perspective, it is true that, in 1861, there was a gap between North and South, "The percentage of working population industry workers was higher in the South than the North," wrote Amedeo Lepore.
In 1856, the Exhibition of Paris, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was awarded as the most industrialized country of Italy. And, as shown by Daniel and Malanima, data on wage rates a Nord e a Sud, sia urbani che rurali, non rivelavano, al 1861, sostanziali differenze.
Tutto questo per dire che, sul piano industriale e infrastrutturale, sono state le scelte di politica economica post-unitarie a gettare le basi di quel divario che, inevitabilmente, ci portiamo appresso.
Il fascismo ha fatto solo il resto: da un lato, creando coi soldi pubblici l'IRI per salvare dalla crisi le grandi industrie del Nord e, dall'altro, obbligando, per esempio, i siciliani, che praticavano da tempo l'agricoltura specializzata, a tornare a produrre grano. Né l'Italia Repubblicana ha invertito la tendenza: si confronti quanto è stato speso al Nord e al Sud negli ultimi sessant'anni in scuole, strade, ferrovie, aeroporti, power grid, etc ... The much insulted
Fund for the South spends only 0.5 percent of gross domestic product.
But there is another aspect that is not mentioned enough, and that is the basis of the dreadful phenomenon that has drained tens of millions of people in the South and the lands that had never known until 1861. In the South, the unity of Italy was realized for the benefit of a small circle of landowners. The state confiscated the lands of the Savoy church and state, and never mind the mass of peasants who demanded a piece of land, sold to raise cash to those who could buy them. With the result that a class of ex gabelloti became richer and nonostante le promesse di Garibaldi, venne impedito che nascesse una diffusa classe di piccoli proprietari terrieri. La conclusione drammatica fu la fine degli usi civici: ossia, di quell'istituto che per secoli, all'interno delle terre ecclesiastiche e demaniali, aveva consentito ai contadini di vivere. In conclusione, a volerli conoscere, i fatti dicono che la questione è reale e sentita. E che, i fatti, serve ricostruirli, metterli insieme ed evidenziare come gli uni non si spieghino senza gli altri. Serve soprattutto a capire che per troppo tempo i siciliani sono stati privati di quel complesso di infrastrutture necessario per sottrarsi all'infido giogo dell'assistenzialismo e per esprimere, anche attraverso la fiscalità di vantaggio, quelle energie che, in breve tempo, lo porrebbero al pari di qualunque popolo d'Europa.
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