Posted on Aug 31, 2025
I was inspired by the following interview to Roberto Saviano to dump some more of my shit; I find it one of the best interviews to Saviano.
Let’s establish a framework for reasoning. It is in the nature of humans to be rapacious against other humans; there exist human societies in which: the conditions are such that there is an emergence of some form of feudalism, because there is room for it; rapacious instincts find their way in these forms of feudalism. One could say that humans are tribal and feudalism is one of the possible forms in which the violent part of tribalism coalesce.
In this post, with feudalism I mean: a hierarchy of power (mostly male humans) that uses violence to control humans living in a territory, with the purpose of extracting resources; the control is not directly over the land itself (nobody can control how many leaves a tree produces) but over the humans that inhabit such region. To have something to think about: with resources I mean money and females.
If I say that there is room for feudalism I mean that: what can common, non–violent, humans really do to contrast the emergence of such powers? Not much.
I want this broad definition of feudalism because: I want to state that the Italian mafia, the Ukrainian mafia, the Russian mafia, the Ukrainian neo–Nazi groups are all forms of this. In Italy we do have neo-Fascism, so I do not doubt that there can be neo–Nazism in Ukraine.
I despise this form of feudalism; fortunately I am not the only one.
It is a misfortune of the human condition that human people have a mentality such that feudalism emerges. In regions like Ukraine such mentality exists; it was crushed while the Soviet Union existed, but it did not go away; after the collapse of the USSR it came back. Is this a surprise? It must not be.
Can we do something to melt away this way of thinking? Can we go to Italy, Ukraine or Russia and melt away this way of thinking? Will this way of thinking go away if we wage war to Italy, Ukraine or Russia? The answer to all of these questions is: it is unlikely. Waging war to a human people is the worst way of dealing with this: we want peace and human rights and we violate them all with war.
So we come to the question that prompted me into writing this post: from the point of view of Putin’s regime, what’s the problem with Ukrainian Nazis? Is it that Putin is against feudalism? Is it just propaganda? Is it that from the point of view of young, violent, boys: Ukrainian neo–Nazism’s ideology is more attractive that Russian mafia’s ideology?
(I’m not ignoring the Palestine situation: when we have established a framework for reasoning, you, Dear Reader, can apply it as you see fit.)