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The unbearable fanaticism of the poor Saramago

of Giorgio Israel

Fortunato who, having lived most of his life in the twentieth century, has managed to not be infected even a bit 'from the disease of totalitarianism. At least that is important is to have learned the lesson of which the most important thing is to avoid the radicalism, the tendency to see the world in black and white, to think that the reason is all on one side and, therefore, to be ready to enlist in any army dedicated to the destruction of the enemy. The fanaticism of the twentieth century have shown us the need to practice the virtue of tolerance and the use of reason and to be wary of any form of extremism, not only those of classical totalitarianism - communism, fascism - but any extremism: a free market fanatic can be dangerous. Tolerance and then search for nuance, but precisely for that reason can not be strict and uncompromising against those who have not learned the lesson and who insist on poisoning the world with their fanaticism.
This premise to say that the recently deceased Nobel laureate, José Saramago, is the model of this unrepentant bigotry and evokes in me the image of those who cultivate the memory of the neo-Nazi Reich, collecting the memorabilia in the house. Who was the communist or fascist may have reasons for their choice of camp and is just trying to understand them rationally, but what is intolerable is that it continues to defend the indefensible. Some will expect you hate Saramago for his positions on Israel and the Jews, but I will say rather that the claim is stubborn and dogmatic communism that I find absolutely disgusting.
He said he had read a phrase from Marx and Engels in the "Holy Family" which was for him as the road to Damascus, what led him to believe that only communism could satisfy his yearning for justice. The sentence was: "If man is formed by circumstances, then the circumstances must be humanely." So far nothing to say. We can accept this as a description of the reasons that led many people in good faith, the city council.
But many years later, in front of a Bernard Pivot who wanted to know why continue to be a Communist after the errors, the disasters and crimes of the Soviet system, said to be a communist 'hormonal' and that its refusal to renounce communism was a "non possumus" biblical. "I dared to write that socialism - communism and even more so - is a state of mind. I still think that. And the reality is in charge every day to give me reason. "
Leaving aside this ridiculous show of vanity, one wonders what sense moral souls who, to the memory of millions of dead killed in the name of a principle of social hygiene, is between a cold 'non possumus. " In this moral deafness there is all the ferocity Stalinist ideology. And what is the consistency of the "not possumus» e la luce che illuminò Saramago sulla via della sua Damasco? Forse il gulag fu un modo di «formare le circostanze umanamente»?
Come stupirsi allora che una persona di un simile livello intellettuale e morale abbia detto che Gaza è peggio di Auschwitz (da cui, come è noto, gli ebrei lanciavano razzi sulle città tedesche); e che gli ebrei «hanno superato i maestri» e non meritano più «comprensione per le sofferenze patite durante l’Olocausto»? Come stupirsi che abbia detto che «Geova, o Jahvé, o comunque si chiami, è un dio astioso e feroce che gli israeliani mantengono permanentemente aggiornato»? È lui ad aver superato il maestro: persino Stalin riuscì ad essere antisemita senza ricorrere all’arsenale dell’antigiudaismo religioso.


(Tempi, 7 luglio 2010)