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@ -16,16 +16,10 @@ are all very fine, but they are not the answer. Domestic ab-
sorption of the emigrants might yield some results, but it
would make the whole of Italy, instead of just the South,
into one huge colony. Plans laid by a central government,
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however much good they may do, still leave two hostile
Italys on either side of the abyss. The difficulties we were
discussing, I explained to them, were far more complex than
they realized.
There are three distinct sides to it, which are three aspects
of one central reality; they can neither be understood nor
resolved separately. First of all, we are faced with two very
@ -44,7 +38,6 @@ symptom of what I mean, and this upheaval of the last cen-
tury is not the last of its kind. Just as long as Rome rules
over Matera, Matera will be lawless and despairing, and
Rome despairing and tyrannical.
The second aspect of the trouble is economic, the dilemma
of poverty. The land has been gradually impoverished: the
forests have been cut down, the rivers have been reduced to
@ -55,12 +48,8 @@ that does not favor it. There is no capital, no industry, no
savings, no schools; emigration is no longer possible, taxes
are unduly heavy, and malaria is everywhere. All this is in
large part due to the ill-advised intentions and efforts of the
State, a State in which the peasants cannot feel they have a
share, and which has brought them only poverty and deserts.
Finally, there is the social side of the problem. It is gen-
erally held that the big landed estates and their owners are
at fault, and it is true that these estates are not charitable
@ -76,7 +65,6 @@ function. It lives off petty thievery and the bastardized tradi-
tion of feudal rights. Only with the suppression of this class
and the substitution of something better can the difficulties
of the South find a solution.
The problem, in all of its three aspects, existed before
the advent of Fascism. But Fascism, while hushing it up and
denying its existence, aggravated it to the breaking point,