Solidarity

Here. I have to write this down. Am reading The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century by Sheri Berman and here's Corradini addressing the opening congress of the Italian Nationalist Association in 1910:

"For years and years the socialists ... have been preaching to the workers that it was in their interest to show solidarity with the workers of Cochin-China or Paraguay and to dissociate themselves completely from their employers and the Italian nation. We must drum it into the worker's heads that it is in their best interests to maintain solidarity with their employers and, above all, with their own country and to hell with solidarity with their comrades in Paraguay or Cochin-China"

And I just had to write that down. Because it is illuminating. Easy to disagree with but hard to resist the allure of -- this fuck the wretched of the Earth, what about us?