From e4c71b4bf17bf9c88b28dd3fb6c3d31d6c9ead2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alessandra Marchi Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:14:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] !publish! --- content/highlight/southernquestion.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/highlight/southernquestion.md diff --git a/content/highlight/southernquestion.md b/content/highlight/southernquestion.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4dc311c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/highlight/southernquestion.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ ++++ +title = "The Southern Question" ++++ + +> It is well known what kind of ideology has been disseminated in myriad ways among the masses in the North, by the propagandists of the bourgeoisie: the South is the ball and chain which prevents the social development of Italy from progressing more rapidly; the Southerners are biologically inferior beings, semibarbarians or total barbarians, by natural destiny; if the South is backward, the fault does not lie with the capitalist system or with any other historical cause, but with Nature, which has made the Southerners lazy, incapable, criminal and barbaric - only tempering this harsh fate with the purely individual explosion of a few great geniuses, like isolated palm-trees in an arid and barren desert. +