Word: fascistically
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...been urging the oppressed classes to react militantly against their exploiters. How strange that when the thoroughly working-class police set aside their false consciousness at Harvard and club the sons of the ruling class, they are portrayed not as the agents of class-conflict but as fascist pigs. From accounts I have seen, the brutality of the police action consisted as much of psychological shock as of real physical abuse. Any abuse of police power is deplorable; still, if one wants to sponsor revolutionary, up-against-the-wall-type confrontations, one ought to accept the accompanying risks...
...proletariat, and currently Italy's most incendiary theatrical personality. Social protest flows from Fo's work but it bubbles with laughter. He conceived of Grand Pantomime as a kind of cartoon political morality play about Italy from World War II to the present. Intransigently anti-Fascist and bent on exposing what Fo considers crypto-Fascism, the play is deeply concerned with the exploitation of workers under whatever form of economy and government. Fo calls his own political stance "extreme free left," but he has no political affiliation. He writes with a porcupine quill and no one, right, left...
...from the Innards. As the play begins, a ten-foot-tall puppet with a bilious, wart-covered face lumbers to the center of the stage and mumbles unintelligible words from an ugly rubber mouth while wielding a black plastic truncheon. "Kill the dirty Fascist!" shouts a group of men in turtleneck sweaters as they start to beat the puppet's swollen belly. Out from the puppet's innards steps a shapely brunette in a bathing costume who announces that she is "Capitalism." Soon a 30-foot-long white-and-green-colored dragon winds its way through the gasping...
...workers behead the huge "Fascist" puppet and plan a democratic Italy. But the new tyranny becomes the assembly line, about which Fo raises a characteristically Italian plaint: "Women who work on the assembly line are forced to make 40,000 body movements a day. As a result, 15% of them become sterile and 30% cripples. In some factories where men are subjected to continual movement and noise, 40% of the men become impotent...
Central Casting would have to type Berlinguer as a white-collar Communist rather than a peasant. His lawyer grandfather was a Sardinian republican in the days of the Italian monarchy; his lawyer father was a socialist anti-Fascist during the Mussolini era. Berlinguer studied law before he decided "to fight for the profound transformation of all social assets" and at 21 joined the Communist Party. Jailed by the Fascists for activities in Sardinia, Berlinguer came to the attention of the party's leader, Palmiro Togliatti...