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The people are sovereign

The people are sovereign
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Beppe Grillo’s intervention at the latest episode of Annozero on 9 June 2011:

The RAI is finished
Interviewer -How has this academic year gone? Can you give an opinion about it?
Beppe Grillo- First of all I’d like to say thanks for the hospitality that you are showing me. I would like to do an interview that is based on calmness, with no shouting as I am against this style of politics that is yelling. Enough! It has to stop. First of all I’d like to thank everyone listening right now to this broadcast.

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The metastasis of the private water companies
Interviewer - These are the attempts of the Centre-Right …
Beppe Grillo- Centre-Right and Centre-Left! Look you know the parties are not all the same, neither on the right or on the left because for water if we go and look, the Centre-Left is more relevant than the Centre-Right, talking of the PD.

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The citizens in the companies managing public resources
Interviewer-Renzi talks about your honesty and he says: Grillo is not trustworthy, he’s not coherent …
Beppe Grillo- I’m not a Mayor, I’m a comic, I’m not trustworthy! I’m not at all trustworthy, I’m the most dishonest person in the world, OK? You don’t have to vote for me. I’m not a candidate. I earn my money with my work. I pay taxes. With these taxes we are paying the salaries of these Florentine little idiots,

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The mess-ups of the parties
Interviewer -Thus you are convinced that this referendum has political weight, no? Will it have political weight? So why is it that right now, Di Pietro has said: we need to downgrade the political meaning …. Beppe Grillo- This is the biggest democratic movement, Di Pietro has done a referendum on water that then got smashed by the Court of Cassation because they wanted to keep 7% of investments, he was on the other side, then he came to his senses

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Politics without money
Interviewer -But what’s the constructive stage?
Beppe Grillo- The constructive stage is to give the management of policy and of public resources to the citizens, not to the political parties. This is the big change. I don’t want to talk about this lot. You always bring them out for me because you don’t even organically have the words to talk about a new politics.

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Comments

I may have missed it, but I don't remember ever reading on this blog about how the MoVement envisions the economy. We've talked about bottom-up democracy, changing the political system, but never about the economy's flaws. They seem taboo. As important as talk of a political system is, it only goes so far when ten per cent of the population receives ninety per cent of the pie and ninety per cent receives ten per cent of the pie. Not for nothing demonstrators fill up squares. As it is, there is no doubt that Berlusconi's political ineptness and personal concerns about his going to jail led to Italy's economic and political woes, but that's only part of the story. The other part, as James Carville, former advisor to President Clinton, might say, "It's the economy stupid." So it's all well and good for the "The Economist" to crucify Berlusconi, but Italy's grim economic performance fundamentally replicated the less than stellar performance of other Western capitalist economies. There is a need for economic change, change the way we think about capitalism, make corporations be part of conserving this planet and as responsible to society as any other citizen, start sharing the benefits of technological advances. If we wait for the parties to start the debate, it will never happen. Parties worry about parties and who gets what and when, they can't think ahead. But then parties are not inclined to bring about changes. MoVements do. The spark to talk about a fairer and more humane economic system has to come from us.

Posted by: Louis Pacella | June 11, 2011 07:39 PM