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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. 
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 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. 
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 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 
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 State, a State in which the peasants cannot feel they have a 
 share, and which has brought them only poverty and deserts. 
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 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. 
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 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,