Chaosophy - autonomous learning

The Italy of 1977 underwent an unprecedented crisis. Economic
indicators were bleak. Each month the country was
breaking down a little more. Paradoxically, it was in this country
which was losing its jobs and its bearings that a broad protest
movement exploded. It didn't ask for a better distribution of
employment, work for all, and wages indexed to inflation, but far
less traditionally strove to sap the foundations of the system by
frontally attacking labor value, property, and the delegation of
power and speech.
If the economic and social crisis was in full force, the political
situation was completely blocked. The Andreotti government was
leading the country erratically. As for the very influential and
powerful alternative force represented by the PCI (the Italian
Communist Party), directed by Berlinguer, it was calling for
national recovery, moral order, and a politics of austerity. Invoking
the necessity of a "historical compromise," the PCI was turning
itself from an oppositional party to a governing party. Under
Berlinguer's rule, the Italian Communists were simultaneously on
the forefront in Italy and brealcing new grounds outside by talcing
their distance from the Soviet Big Brother. They were the prestigious
vanguard of European communism, while their alignment
behind the Italian authorities and their willingness to ally themselves
with a party as compromised as the Christian Democrats had
the dramatic effect of cutting off any escape route, not even dreams
or Utopia, for the great mass of the excluded (emarginati) hit
head-on by the crisis and deprived of any hope.
This blocked situation encouraged extreme reactions, spontaneous
explosions, and the violence of confrontations. Whereas in
May 1968 the movement was expressed in a traditional language, a
Marxism-Leninism of either the Maoist, Troskyist, or Spartakist
type, ten years later the Italian protest was searching for new
inspirations. A whole series of Italian currents on the extreme left