| Benjamin Geer on Fri, 21 May 2004 11:25:29 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> Negri with Ballestrini to Battisti and on amnesty |
Aliette Guibert wrote: > Finally, Toni Negri in the French newspaper "Liberation" today, in the > column "Bounces": on Battisti and Italian refugees in France, release in > the question of the general amnesty of leftists in Italy. The interesting thing about this article is that, while it says a lot about Italy in the 70s, it says absolutely nothing about Cesare Battisti, nor about the specific crimes that Battisti committed, nor about the injustice done to Battisti's victims. Its main implied argument seems that two wrongs make a right: since (if we accept Negri's version of history) there was a civil war going on between the State and the revolutionary left, it was somehow OK to kill random civilians who were in no way representatives of the state. None of the pro-Battisti articles I've seen mention Battisti's victims at all. Justice for Battisti? Fine. But justice for his victims, too. Ben # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]