little thought of a Communist intellectual of the first me sity of 900 on Porta Pia:
"Porta Pia .. it was not a shabby episode, militarily and politically. Militarily it was not a grotesque skirmish. It was truly worthy of the Italian military traditions. Porta Pia resembles - in small-to Vittorio Veneto. Porta Pia was the small, easy victory of the aggressor vastly superior opponent helpless, like Vittorio Veneto was easy victory against an opponent who - military-no longer existed. Politically Porta Pia was simply the latest episode of the violent and artificial construction of the Kingdom of Italy. Everything else is rhetoric trinkets. The beautiful phrases Third Rome are completely empty of meaning.
Rome is the imperial city and Papal city: therein lies its greatness universal. The "Third Rome" is not a dirty city of the province, a filthy nest of beams, for a hotel, whore and parasites. While the two phases of Roman history,
the imperial and papal, have left immortal track, the brief occupation of Savoy leaves only trace of him, the Palace of Justice, statues decorative plaster and grotesque imitations: the scandal born between suppliers and members patriots corrupt thieves, it is worthy of hosting the legal forfeiture of contemporary society. To this the Roman question is not answered. They could not resolve the guns of the King of Savoy. The militaristic violence can not solve international problems. And the question of Rome is an international problem ... "
(Antonio Gramsci. The New Order, Socialist Culture Review Weekly, October 2 1920)
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