The Aldo Moro murder case: thirty years later

The Aldo Moro murder case: thirty years later. The Legacy of 1978 in
Italian Politics and Culture

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Richard Drake (24-06-2008)

I lived in Rome from June 1972 to August 1973, partly on funding that
came from the Aldo Moro fellowship for foreign students. This support
helped me to complete the research for my Ph.D. dissertation on the
emergence of a right-wing secular culture in Italy. Several years
later, the dissertation became a book, Byzantium for Rome: The
Politics of Nostalgia in Umbertian Italy, 1878-1900. I thought that I
would devote my scholarly career to writing about nineteenth-century
Italian political and cultural history. While finishing this book in
Los Angeles, I learned of Moro's abduction and death. Although I
never had any personal dealings with him, I felt the need as an Aldo
Moro fellow to find out why he had been murdered by the Red Brigades.
It took me nine years to produce a preliminary report
about the reasons behind Moro's killing, in The Revolutionary
Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy. In writing this book I
had found Eric Hoffer's point in The True Believer to be well-made:
for their ideological and political guidance, men of action depend on
men of ideas. The Red Brigades belonged to a revolutionary tradition
that originated in the classic Marxist critiques of capitalism. Mario
Moretti, one of their leaders, insisted that the Red Brigades always
thought of themselves as communist revolutionaries, however
haphazardly their particular actions might be related to a
Marxist-Leninist theory. Lenin himself was notoriously haphazard in
applying Marxist principles to Bolshevik actions and policies. Ample
precedent existed for Marxist-Leninists to be as innovative as the
circumstances of any given capitalist situation required.
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