Satnam Singh, the Indian farmworker barbarously abandoned without rescue after losing an arm while working illegally in the Latina area of South-Central Italy, died on June 19. An inhumane act, indicative of the degree of exploitation to which farmworkers are subjected in the countryside, with grueling work shifts, very low wages, constant abuse and violence, without any protection and often even without a contract. All this is the result of the underdevelopment of Italian agriculture, especially central-southern agriculture, which still sees the survival, especially in the countryside, of semi-feudal labor relations; this residue is organic to the marginal character of Italian imperialism, which developed thanks to the leverage of the state, which essentially favored the development of industry in the North at the expense of the countryside, especially in the South. Such plundering prevented a more progressive capitalist development of the South and perpetuated its semi-colonial and semi-feudal condition, which, with the “agrarian reforms” of the 1950s, arrived in this part of Italy at the development of a kind of bureaucratic capitalism. In light of all this, it is also clear that in a marginal imperialist country like Italy there is the need to follow a different path from that of the October Revolution. Hence the need for the strategy of long-term revolution for a State of popular democracy with proletarian hegemony. A state that must be constituted on a federal basis in the perspective of socialism, in order to enable an economic and political revival in the South and the Islands.
New Hegemony
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