Power to the People - A Sardinia-Piedmont Interactive AAR

[Gantolandon]

The open letter to the Italian workers​

Fellow worker,

Imagine you're a soldier. Imagine your task is to take a fortress. A stone castle built on a rock, swarming with enemy troops, bristling with artillery. Imagine yourself toiling through the mud, seeing your companions shot and torn by shrapnels. Imagine fighting the enemy room-by-room to finally get to the fortress commander. Imagine yourself - finally - winning. The garrison has surrendered! The fortress is yours!

This is what we went through.

Now imagine that - for some weird reason - you are told to withdraw and give the fortress back to your foes. "There is no way they let you hold that much", the important and educated people say to you. They pat you in the back, congratulate the job well done and mercifully let you take a ration of food and maybe a rifle from the armory. When they talk, they claim having always been on your side and risking their lives against your foe, but when you think about it, haven't you seen them wearing enemy uniforms a day before? Haven't you seen them commanding the enemy soldiers and encouraging them to fight you?

Seems strange? Yet this is what's happening now!

We fought for our country. We risked our jobs by striking, we risked our freedom by demonstrating, finally we risked our lives after the mad butcher had declared us enemies of the state. Many of our colleagues have paid the ultimate price for their bravery. Now, after achieving the impossible, what's changed? Surely now, when the forces of the aristocracy and monarchy are in disarray, only the prosperous future lies before us, doesn't it? Surely the miserable life of the worker is only going to get better from now on?

Wrong.

The same people who benefited from our toil, the same people who plotted carefully to put us down are now trying to take our revolution from us. An aristocrat who spent most of his life in his luxurious mansion is now leading the government. The industrialists who applauded the government for persecuting the unions are now claiming to have always opposed Bonaretti and his ilk. Even the members of the now defunct Privy Council are now trying to convince us they had nothing to do with di Susa and the man who awarded him with a medal. The same people who called us the red hydra and advised our extermination are claiming their colleague was "too extreme".

All of them, however, talk a lot about the need to compromise. The monarchy, as they claim, the same monarchy that wanted us dead, is the important guarantor of stability in the country and should retain most of its prerogatives. They claim it's dangerous to leave the country in the hands of politicians, that it's important a wise and non-partisan man lead us. After the May massacre, I think we can safely say that we got a taste of the king's wisdom and non-partisanship.

This is not what we have fought for. We haven't fought to supplant a reactionary aristocrat with a slightly more progressive one. We haven't fought to put another brand of nobility in power. We haven't fought to let people who wish to see us dead merely regroup and get another chance to put us down. We are not tools, which the wealthy can use however they want and then put them on the shelf when they are no longer needed.

Don't let them fool you. People who advocate for retaining the monarchy, people who want the nobility to retain their privileges, people who want to see labor unions powerless are not your friends, just opportunists who smelled the wind changing and temporarily changed their sides. Don't give up, demand your representatives to finish up what you started. If they truly represent you like they claim, they will listen.

If they don't... well, there is no point in idle speculation right now, is it? Let's check if we really have anything to say in this country, or just exchanged one tyranny into another one.

Yours,

Claudio Ferraio

 

[Dadarian]

The open letter to the Italian workers​

Fellow worker,

Imagine you're a soldier. Imagine your task is to take a fortress. A stone castle built on a rock, swarming with enemy troops, bristling with artillery. Imagine yourself toiling through the mud, seeing your companions shot and torn by shrapnels. Imagine fighting the enemy room-by-room to finally get to the fortress commander. Imagine yourself - finally - winning. The garrison has surrendered! The fortress is yours!

This is what we went through.

Now imagine that - for some weird reason - you are told to withdraw and give the fortress back to your foes. "There is no way they let you hold that much", the important and educated people say to you. They pat you in the back, congratulate the job well done and mercifully let you take a ration of food and maybe a rifle from the armory. When they talk, they claim having always been on your side and risking their lives against your foe, but when you think about it, haven't you seen them wearing enemy uniforms a day before? Haven't you seen them commanding the enemy soldiers and encouraging them to fight you?

Seems strange? Yet this is what's happening now!

We fought for our country. We risked our jobs by striking, we risked our freedom by demonstrating, finally we risked our lives after the mad butcher had declared us enemies of the state. Many of our colleagues have paid the ultimate price for their bravery. Now, after achieving the impossible, what's changed? Surely now, when the forces of the aristocracy and monarchy are in disarray, only the prosperous future lies before us, doesn't it? Surely the miserable life of the worker is only going to get better from now on?

Wrong.

The same people who benefited from our toil, the same people who plotted carefully to put us down are now trying to take our revolution from us. An aristocrat who spent most of his life in his luxurious mansion is now leading the government. The industrialists who applauded the government for persecuting the unions are now claiming to have always opposed Bonaretti and his ilk. Even the members of the now defunct Privy Council are now trying to convince us they had nothing to do with di Susa and the man who awarded him with a medal. The same people who called us the red hydra and advised our extermination are claiming their colleague was "too extreme".

All of them, however, talk a lot about the need to compromise. The monarchy, as they claim, the same monarchy that wanted us dead, is the important guarantor of stability in the country and should retain most of its prerogatives. They claim it's dangerous to leave the country in the hands of politicians, that it's important a wise and non-partisan man lead us. After the May massacre, I think we can safely say that we got a taste of the king's wisdom and non-partisanship.

This is not what we have fought for. We haven't fought to supplant a reactionary aristocrat with a slightly more progressive one. We haven't fought to put another brand of nobility in power. We haven't fought to let people who wish to see us dead merely regroup and get another chance to put us down. We are not tools, which the wealthy can use however they want and then put them on the shelf when they are no longer needed.

Don't let them fool you. People who advocate for retaining the monarchy, people who want the nobility to retain their privileges, people who want to see labor unions powerless are not your friends, just opportunists who smelled the wind changing and temporarily changed their sides. Don't give up, demand your representatives to finish up what you started. If they truly represent you like they claim, they will listen.

If they don't... well, there is no point in idle speculation right now, is it? Let's check if we really have anything to say in this country, or just exchanged one tyranny into another one.

Yours,

Claudio Ferraio

A short letter is penned by di Antico in response.

We know this, thank you though,

O. di Antico

 

[Noco19]

Cesare Agostin Balbo​

Date of Birth: August 3rd, 1856
Place of Birth: Aosta, Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont
Class: Demagogue

Biography:

Second-born son of the infamous Lucius Vico Balbo and younger brother to Lando Amilcare Balbo, Cesare Agostin seems to have inherited the more vocal and fanatic nature of his father. While Lando secured his future with his inherited nobility and the enhancement of his image, being tied moreso to the Borghese than the Balbo line, Cesare was not so lucky. Though Lando would offer safety and a quiet life for his brother, Cesare decided instead to pursue his own educational goals and travels abroad.

From London and Paris, to Berlin and Vienna, young Cesare would meet a great many thinkers and explore his own ideology. Cesare Agostin would find great influence from historical men such as Giambattista Vico, while developing a great interest in the theories of mankind and of government. Influenced by the movement of Socialism, and perhaps from Italian events, Cesare Agostin grew empathy for the worker and the common man, believing that unity and societal change was a neccesity in "perfecting" the core of human interaction. This would develop into the concept of binding together different segments of society together to structure the ideal state, a idea Cesare Agostin began referring to as Syndicalism, having adopted the phrase from French unionism. No better application could be seen in the instance of economic matters, the idea of Syndicalism resembling that of guilds and modern day unions. Though not an economist, Cesare sees this sector as the first to embrace such a concept.

But that is not to say Cesare believed wholly in the works of Marx. In fact, from personal memoirs it is clear that Cesare in fact had much disdain for the man, for a variety of reasons. Foremost, Cesare did not reject the usefulness of old structures such as the monarchy or faith. Though perhaps neither were much beloved by Cesare, he understood their purpose in the ideal state, another binding of the people. Furthermore, Cesare enjoyed the romanticism of nationalism and things regarded by some as imperialist or violent. Military heroes of yore or the divine proved to be the perfect figures which could be used to inspire a people and nation toward cohesion.

Returning to Italy following news of the recent uprising's calming, Cesare Agostin quickly set about bringing his acquired beliefs into circulation, and prepared to see if Italy was ready yet to embrace the new age with open arms and embrace the medicine it needed to rise above its current rivals.

 

[Revan529]

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Name: Lorenzo Emmanuele Alliata
Birth-date: 3 August 1836 in Sciacca, Two Sicilies
Class: Politician

A lean man with a thin, wolfish face, Lorenzo Emanuele Alliata was born on the third of August, 1836 in Sciacca to a prominent nobleman; he thus lived in luxury, and grew up in the reactionary, repressive court of Ferdinando II. Unlike many children, he seemed to thrive in this stifling atmosphere, and in time rose to prominence in the court; he served in various administrative posts, held military offices, and was even considered briefly a potential Prime Minister in the early 1860s. Italian unification saw an end to all that; when Garibaldi's One Thousand landed, Alliata was dispatched with a force to rebuff this braven assault. The arrival of the Sardinian navy forestalled any such attempts on his part. Whilst camping near the straights, pan-nationalists swamped his force, and it was only by Divine Providence that he any of his forces had managed to escape – Ferdinando however saw only gross incompetence and utter negligence, and had Alliata sacked; he was captured in Napoli when the city fell. His lands were stripped from his, to his great chagrin, and he was in an instant made ruined.

He has spent those years since coming to terms with the dissolution of the old states of the peninsula, adapting to this new Italia; he has also become an ardent critic of the pervasive liberalism of the government, arguing for a revocation of the most damaging and socialistic pieces of legislation, if not an abolition of constitutionalism in general. The Revolution of 1884 reinforced his disdain of mob-rule, and the assassination of the King, abhorred him to no end. This government, born from revolution, was perfidious, unclean, and would have to be toppled.

-Speech by Alliata-​

It is thoroughly apparent that, in the brief existence of this Kingdom, the politicals who headed this nation have proven themselves so thoroughly incompetent, degenerate, and morally, intellectually, and spiritly deficient that it is wondrous that this Kingdom has persevered, despite the haughty, aggrandising, and so immensely self-serving class of weak-willed, craven, and wholly unworthy persons who dominate the upper stratas of society. It is not however a small wonder that these moral vagabonds who in their iniquity have ceded the Godly Rights of the Crown, and in their selfishness sought openly to undermine Nature and Law and raise themselves up to the powers of Kingliness, divine and pristine, virgin and unperturbed by mortal hands, and in their cowardice abandoned principle, tact, and will to the pathetic, radical masses led by the nose by dangerous men without souls and without convictions, save their own aggrandisement.

Therefore, it is only natural that, in this moral crisis that has confounded our Kingdom and torn asunder the Righteous ties that made our Kingdom, born from a small state, and comprised of so many small, bickering, and weak states, into a Great Power, and the truest, purest, and more worthy heir of Rome that has ever blessed this earth, that the only logical and truly moral choice left to this nation is to, in this dark age of perversion and abject iniquity, to toss aside those corrupting powers and return to the glorious days when the State, blessed by the Lord our God, answerable only to the Lord. This blessedly royal and undoubtedly divine course of regal restoration is now the only course I and those who wish in their hearts, minds, and souls, and those who pray nightly for the sovereign’s health and strength, and those who, ignoring the politics of knaves and scoundrels, embrace the singular truth that this mob-rule has descended e’er closer to anarchy and chaos, that this nation must restore the sovereignal powers that those without courage and conviction and spirit and the slightest bit of God’s love have sought to undermine and steal for their own lusts.

I call for a return to tradition, to piety, to power, and to forever shun the corruption, the ambition, and the envious, perfidious, and callow drivel!

Alliate quietly thanked the new, more liberal laws that defended his free speech.

 

[Somberg]

Name: Eustachio Paglione
Place of Birth: Nola, Kingdom of Two Sicilies
Date of Birth: January 23, 1821
Class: Demagogue
Bio: Born to a poor peasant farmer, Eustachio started off life rough. At the age of 5, his family was forced off their land after they were unable to continue paying the rent for it. They moved to Naples where his father worked in one of the first and few factories constructed there. At the age of 7 his father died in an industrial accident and the burden of supporting the family fell to his mother, who was forced into working in a factory herself along with Eustachio and his other siblings who were old enough. Not long afterward Eustachio's mother contracted tuberculosis and died several months later. Eustachio and his siblings found themselves in an orphanage, where Eustachio lived for one year until he was adopted by a recently widowed aristocrat with decidedly liberal views. He paid for Eustachio's education and influenced his initial political views. Eustachio attended Cambridge University in England where he studied medicine and later received his medical license.

In 1844, on a trip through Europe, Eustachio met a young Karl Marx in Paris. He soon became intensely interested in Marx's ideas, remembering the troubles of his childhood, and the two became close associates. Eustachio gave up his medical pursuits and instead followed Marx throughout Europe as a revolutionary and a radical socialist. He was present at the Hawaii Conference in 1860 when Marx presented the ideas of his newly published Communist Manifesto. Soon afterward, Eustachio returned to Naples where he lead a failed workers' revolt and was forced into exile in Switzerland. There he decided to do all he could to help the workers of Europe and embarked on a decades long journey through Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Britain, and France where he aided unions and fellow socialists in opposing the bourgeoisie and fighting for the rights of workers.

In 1882, upon hearing of the arrest of di Antico, Fabron, and Cuomo as well as the attempted disbanding of unions, Eustachio returned to Italy. He began to build a network of contacts among fellow socialists including Michelangelo Constantino, joined the POI, and also actively participated in the various demonstrations against the Bonaretti government. He was present in Naples during the May Day Massacre and witnessed the murdering of innocent and unarmed protestors at the hands of the army. He was at the front lines of the revolution that this sparked and hoped to see the overthrow of the corrupt bourgeoisie and aristocratic government and the creation of the first workers' state. However, following the all too moderate revolution that actually transpired, Eustachio is more determined than ever to fight for the rights of the proletariat and see to it that a true proletariat revolution occurs eventually in Italy.

 

[Nax24]

((Returning from exile))
((Secret))

Fabron, finally able to return home, has heard many news about the events that took place. The biggest one that has caught his ear was that finally, after almost fifty years of struggles, unions were now fully legal, and can fully operate publicly. His first task was to go to Venice. When he arrived in Venice, he met up with fellow Italian Federation of Labor members, and decided that the time was right for them to come out into the light. However, he had to tell the leader of the IFL at the time to step aside.

"Greetings Signor de Palma. Allow me to introduce myself to you as Nathan Fabron, but you may know me better as The Gentleman..."

 

[Davout]

THE IPMC - BUILDING A BETTER ITALY

The IPMC congratulates its workers for standing with the Company in the Revolution and supporting the PD in the recent elections. The IPMC has always been a stalwart supporter of the PD and its liberal ideals, for which it has been punished by the various Conservative regimes over the years which sought to prefer their own partisan cronies in Il Sardo and Societe Hermes in selling off factories for under value whilst the IPMC always bid in an ethical manner for a fair price.

It is pleasing to see the groundswell of solidarity of the IPMC workforce in demonstrating their support for the Party and the Company. It is you, our factory hands and clerks, who have helped make the IPMC the leading Corporation of Italy. And it is with your help the we will make Italy the leading Nation of Europe. The Revolution has been won. It is time to gather the harvest of our labours by creating wealth for all, through wise management and hard work, together, one Family, one Company, One Italy.

 

[Revan529]

THE WAY FORWARD!​

Or​

A Condemnation of the Radicalism and Socialism Perverting the Government of the Italian Kingdom and Undermining the Royal Prerogative by Usurping the Powers of the Crown and the Means by Which This Horror Can be Reversed.
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By L.E. Alliata​

The Kingdom of Italy was established in the year 1864, a scant generation ago, by a generation of men greater and wiser than its forebears; the wise and virtuous Vittorio Emmanuele and the fiercely brave and utterly faithful Napoleone d’Auria united the disparate Italian peoples into a solitary state, all the while fending off the gravest threat to the dream of unity in our nascent nation’s brief history; the Balboists were a queer assortment of radicals, revolutionaries, and the various vested financial interests on the old Sardinian Kingdom – under the leadership of the mad Lucio Balbo, these self-proclaimed neo-Romans sought, and ultimately (not to mention thankfully) failed in their quest to usurp the Crown and the governance from the rightful and surely brilliant King. Even in the far longer history of the Sardinian Kingdom, it was apparent that the financial interests, combined with radicals, revolutionaries, and leftist aggrandisers attempted to expand their station in 1848 at the expense, again, of the rightful ruler and a far superior man. The men, or vile scum, as would be far more fitting and equally less degrading to mankind, who perpetrated and otherwise orchestrated these rebellions, these treasons and petty revolutions, were on the surface not dissimilar from the rest of us, those who with patriotism, wisdom, and fidelity keep faith with the Crown; however, their minds were rapt with awful ambitions, vile perversions, and a disregard for the practices of their fathers and their venerable antecedents – they became corrupted by their nature, and lost the civility granted to them by Christ, Society, and the inherent goodness and stability provided by the Crown; it is therefore no surprise that as the powers of the Crown have been ceded by lesser men (who I shall gladly discuss and then take to task later) to other, even lower “men” that the truly vile nature of our barbarism and absolute incivility becomes more and more revealed – the wars of this age are larger, more violent, and destructive in a magnitude unfathomable in the older generations. More are impoverished, and bound to the interests of the moneyed powers, capitalising on their works, whilst contributing nothing themselves, save perhaps gifts and donations to their allies in the “democratic” parliament of this nation, and all other nations.

It is tragic, though no great surprise, and I would say no grand conspiracy on the part of the leftists, at least not the lowest and basest of them all, nor those in the so-called “conservative” parties the world over, who by deluding themselves that minor reforms, small concessions, and little surrenders will allow the people to adapt and become tame (where the only result we have ever seen when such actions are taken are sating the lusts of those lower peoples, before demanding ever more powers, ever more concessions, ever more usurpations). Worse still are those who, whilst wearing the robes of loyalism, with professions of fidelity and preservation of the Old Order falling graciously and freely from their silver-tongues, whilst all the while looking lustily at titles and honours and powers and other trinkets of authority and affluence – these cretins, these vile, nigh unholy beasts, serpentine or wormish, are truly beyond respect, tolerance, or forgiveness. These are the men who are, at their core, the reason why the revolutions and the rebellions are allowed to foment and have, under protestations of loyalty to the Crown, cajole and urge their betters to concede their Divine Powers for the sake of “peace” or some imagined benefit.

Who are these men? It is plain to see that those of the “Conservative” and “Crown” Parties are little more than leftist puppets bound by the corrupt and thoroughly intolerable, and wholly unbound by morality, sensibility, or love for nation. These men, in the last and most damnable rebellion, were those who conceded to the Revolting Revolutionism of some over-proud bitch whose succubilic influence has confounded even the hearts and minds of those who I would have considered stalwarts, true champions of the Crown. Only a select few, amongst them the incorruptible d’Auria and ever-loyal Galanti, resisted the wiles of leftism, defending until the end the King (may he rest in peace). The bravery of di Susa, whose stalwart leadership in the absence of revolutionary influence within the government was superb, striking, and altogether sublime, though unfortunately an act far too weak and insignificant to effectively undermine the festering leftism infesting this nation.

The most damnable, most contemptible, and most thoroughly irredeemable of these traitors is Stephano Bonaretti (may he forever burn in Hell, and may his soul never find peace) who I find wholly unworthy of the many titles bestowed upon him in his corrupt, unworthy, and thoroughly degenerate lifestyle – he urged the government to accept the terms of the Bitch of Gaeta, to whom he had in his final years become the chattel of. There is no creature on this Earth so deserving of death, and yet so mercifully punished in Hell for his crimes than this monstrosity, this failing, flagging, and fumbling excuse of a human, this beast of revolutionary burden.

This practice of concessionalism must come to an End! The defeats must be overturned, the battles must be fought, and the barbaric radicals must be driven from the Fatherland, to preserve its dignity and restore its pride and power! To that end, a new party free from the defeatism and treachery of the revolutionary parties must be founded to restore the morality of the Fatherland and cast out these radical demons!

 

[Andre Massena]

Gaspare reads the ridiculous essay from the blubbering madman

Go away, you drunk. My father saved the kingdom. You will never accomplish a thousandth of what he did.

Once again, my fellow Italians, we see the destructive power of alcohol. It has destroyed Signore Alliata's ability to reason.

-Duca Gaspare Bonaretti di Venezia

 

[99KingHigh]

There are, in shadows beneath the insidious smiles, and false acquaintances, men who find comfort, not in those peaceful drawing rooms or grand balls, but the smoke of chaos and distress. There are some men, who from the distress and fear, of the blood of revolution, see not ideology nor purpose. They sit with impatient temper, watching in great interest as the fabric of society is torn asunder. There are some men, who making the prediction of destruction, find no greater pleasure than the accuracy of their prophecy.

And so, the Bloody Baron, watched, with sublime glee, as the body of d'Auria was passed into the coffin. A most, terrific, horrible, excellent glee.

 

[LatinKaiser]

Go away, you drunk. My father saved the kingdom. You will never accomplish a thousandth of what he did.

((Whatever you say, Andre... ))

 

[Nax24]

There are, in shadows beneath the insidious smiles, and false acquaintances, men who find comfort, not in those peaceful drawing rooms or grand balls, but the smoke of chaos and distress. There are some men, who from the distress and fear, of the blood of revolution, see not ideology nor purpose. They sit with impatient temper, watching in great interest as the fabric of society is torn asunder. There are some men, who making the prediction of destruction, find no greater pleasure than the accuracy of their prophecy.

And so, the Bloody Baron, watched, with sublime glee, as the body of d'Auria was passed into the coffin. A most, terrific, horrible, excellent glee.

((Secret))
Fabron leans over to a friend while at the funeral.

"That man seems to be really happy at the death of the Marshall. Wonder if he had a vendetta against him?"

 

[LatinKaiser]

Following an internal party vote earlier in the day, the Marquess of Susa makes the following announcement:

As leader of I Conservatori, I, Umberto di Susa, do officially dissolve I Conservatori. Having thus disbanded our party, my colleagues and I shall hereby join I Partito Corona. God save the King!

~ Umberto di Susa, Marquess of Susa

 

[Qwerty7]

Il Liberale Nazionale
by Fulgenzio Ruggeri MP​

What is National Liberalism? This is a question I receive many times a day. I intend to write a lot about National Liberalism, Civic Liberalism, Patriotic Liberalism, or whatever you may call it in these essays. I will endeavor to answer the most provocative of questions to ensure that Italy can have a firm grasp on the ideology of National Liberalism. I shall break it up into different ideas, but first let us understand a basic idea of what this is.

National Liberalism is the idea that the state is compromised of individuals endowed with free will but united through patriotism and civic duty in order to advance the National interest. By advancing the National interest the people benefit from the prosperous state. I will talk first about The National Interest.

The National Interest is the destiny, or goal of a nation. The National interest is primarily concerned with ensuring that the citizens of nation as a whole belong to a prosperous state that is powerful and the envy of the world. The National Interest is different from the selfish Interest of the Individual that Adam Smith preached and that many Classical Liberals still preach, in that through the National Interest the citizen is fulfilling the self-interest. That by though hard work and dedication for the National Interest you can achieve your self-interests. The craftsman shining the new gun he has just created, the labourer wiping the sweat off his brow after laying down rail track, the entrepreneur starting his own business. These self-interests can accomplish the objective of the National Interest and benefit all of Italians. Every citizen is obligate to perform civic duty in order to forward the National Interest.

Civic duty is the duty possessed by each citizen to participate in the National interest. Each citizen is required to fulfill civic duty by working their best at their job and by helping others in certain ways. If a man is bleeding then it is your civic duty to help him to the hospital where it is the civic duty of the doctors there to help the man recover. Obviously civic duty does not mean that you are giving a burden to immediately help others, but only if the National Interest is to benefit from it.

The Liberalism comes into play specifically in the role of government. The role of government is essentially the same as defined in classical liberalism. The government should intervene only when necessary in order to protect the National Interest. The most important role of government is to protect the individual. The individual is one of the core principles of National Liberalism. National Liberalism is especially in opposition to the Fascio. Fascios are "bundle of rods" and originate from the Latin "fasces". They mean strength through unity, which when applied to all of Italy is correct. Each individual stick is fragile, but as a bundle they are strong. However, when applied to smaller groupings within the nation not concerned with the National Interest. Groups such as Trade Unions or Guilds, these groups tear away at the fabric of The National Interest. They create selfish separate interests that ultimately destroy the National Interest. This is why we must remain strong together, but strong as Individuals as well.

 

[Noco19]

Syndicalism and the Natural Way of Man
By Cesare Agostin Balbo​

By His very Nature, Man seeks unity with his fellows, to form connections and partnerships in some form of unity. Truly this phenomenon sets up apart from every other creature, not simply in our doing so, but in our skill in doing so. While animals may form packs, Man forms civilizations, cultures, realms, and nations, becoming more than any animal can be ; We become a People.

To become a People is the purest form of being Man, embracing what we are. And so too is it pure and righteous that we extend this precise unity to encompass all in which Man does. In recent years, Man has made prodigious progress towards this ideal state as We group ourselves into true nations, bound together through language and customs and government, abolishing the outdated divisions of before. And within that nation may exist a disorganized majority, there always exist a strongly organized minority from where true power is held, the government, the elite, the organizations of the People. No clearer can this been seen in Europe, as with this enhanced state we see the rise of prosperity and powers, from the Germans to the Italians. This is not simply an improvement of materialistic things, though that too is an advantage. No, by creating the nation and by acting upon our Nature, our very being, our Character is made stronger, amplified when a People share such inner Character, with each Man devoting himself to the National Character.

But We are restricted from achieving our utmost, in taking leaps and bounds towards our ideal state. Though We have succeeded in nation building in most civilized lands, one force has arisen in not simply retarding our betterment, nay, this force in fact seeks to turn back our accomplishments. Of course I refer to the liberal force, those who seek to rend asunder society though talks of "individualism", a concept that is foreign to what makes a Man, his very heart and soul. And yet the liberals have proven skilled saboteurs, supplanting years of progress to provide themselves power, not the People but just a Man. Materialistic and rationalistic, these men poison the wellspring of the National Character, turning Man against Man until the People are no more. They wish a state over which they rule Man, not a state wherein the People rule.

So how does Syndicalism fit into this most pressing issue? Simply, Syndicalism seeks to advance the cause of Man's Nature by instituting greater unity between the organs of the nation and the People. Foremost, the segments of society, the workers, the capitalists, the and others, must be brought together in a harmonious fashion. To provide an easy example of application, look at the workforce of a nation, at its workers, at its business owners, at its management. In the liberal eye, these three are forever separate, as are the specific members of each segment. But under Syndicalism, these three are one. The workers are at once the operators and owners of their craft, all united. The unions of today mirror this concept, but pale at the potential. Today, the workers unite against the capitalists. But tomorrow, why cannot the workers unite with the capitalists? These binds are the core of Syndicalism, for these are the Syndicates, fellows united in a single enterprise, in a single goal, of a single People, in a single nation.

And why can we not continue from there? When one Syndicate arises, and becomes two, and then four, and then sixteen, and so on, these Syndicates must thereafter strive to unite the same, coordinating the chains of production, refinement, distribution, thereby strengthening the backbone of the nation.

Thus, that is the most viable path for Man, to form more powerful bonds, to provide for the People, and to strengthen the very core of the state, while carrying onward to that ideal state of singularity. Though it may not be instantaneous, though it may be an uphill battle against the forces of liberalism, I know in myself that such a day is coming. And that day will be one of jubilation, - the perfection of the Nature of Man. And that is why I stand for Syndicalism, why I ask upon my own People, the Italian People, to carry my words in their hearts, and to work as one towards the perfection of ourselves.

 

[Glueth]

And so ends this revolution. With bloodshed we had so desperately hoped to avoid. At the very least, perhaps we have save some.

I wish to pay my respects to those among us who have fallen or died in the recent times. To the late Duke of Venice, who has saved our kingdom from complete and total anarchy. To Marshall D'Auria, who did command us with honour and, whatever else may be said of him, defended the King against the revolutions at least once. Even to the late Marquis di Susa, who, whatever else may be said of him, was a man and a man of the Kingdom. I do not speak ill of the dead, and neither should we.

And, first and foremost, to our late King Umberto I, may he rest in peace. Remember his nobility and generosity, and remember that he was, above all else, the King of Italy, above all else. May he, and all those who have died, rest in peace, and may his son rule nobly and honourably as well.

But memorials only go so far, and there is work to be done. I wish the good Marquess de Montezemolo, and I hope to be at his side should he need any advice.

 

[Marschalk]

((IPC - Private))

Good gentlemen,

Our party leader, General Stefano Bonaretti di Venezia, is dead. As the Deputy Leader of the Party, I temporary take charge of its affairs and open the primaries for the elections of our new chairman. I myself woud run for the office. You may submit your candidacy, if you wish to run for leadership, now.

((IPC Nomination Period - 24 hours))

 

[Andre Massena]

JOIN THE ITALIAN TEMPERANCE LEAGUE
ALCOHOL IS ANARCHY

((irc is #temperance for any supporters of the movement and/or fellow demagogues))

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The Lega La Temperanza Italiana will cease agitation out of respect for the stability of the nation and the Montezemolo government. However, we will not cease fighting for the noble temperance cause.

((not agitating anymore))​

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[m.equitum]

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR APPOINTMENTS TO CABINET
- To His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele III and His Royal Highness Prince Amadeo -
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I submit to Your Majesty and to Your Royal Highness the following list of estimable gentlemen and invite your consideration as to their eligibility and suitability for appointment to Cabinet and other posts within His Majesty's Government.

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DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: Don Felix Alberto Pietro Antonio, Barone di Profumo ((Syriana))

MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Don Amedeo Cesara Amat, Marquess di Soleminis ((Marschalk))

MINISTER OF WAR: Herr Karlomarx de Maxispierre von Habsburg-Lorraine, Conte d'Annecy ((Mikkel Glahder))

MINISTER OF COLONIAL AFFAIRS: Signore Antonio Moretti ((CanadianFelix Alberto Pietro Antonio, Barone di Profumo ((Syriana))

MINISTER OF FINANCE: Signore Augusto Frederico Pedrotti ((Firehound15))

MINISTER OF COMMERCE: Signore Giorgio Ferrabino ((Terraferma))

MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR & AGRICULTURE: Signore Fulgenzio Rugerri ((Qwerty7))

MINISTER OF EDUCATION: Signore Lorenzo Mopurgo ((VibraniumTaco))

MINISTER OF JUSTICE: Don Felix Alberto Pietro Antonio, Barone di Profumo ((Syriana))

MINISTER OF TRANSPORTATION & RAILROADS: Don Gaspare Gargiulio Giacomo Bonaretti, Duca di Venezia ((Andre Massena))

MINISTER OF LABOUR: Signore Tattaglio Carbari ((Jack118))

MINISTER OF THE ROYAL COURT: Lorenzo Emmanuele Alliata ((Riccardo93))



CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF: Major-General Augustin Luigi Eugenio di Barnardi ((Glueth))

ADMIRAL OF THE NAVY: Admiral Giuliano Galanti ((Bongomarauder))

DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF: Major-General Gerardo Guillaume Raffaele Maria Alighieri, Marquess di Pavia ((TJDS))

Don Antonio Bendetto Cairolli de Valperga, Barone di Ibelin ((99KingHigh))



VICEROY OF EGYPT: Amadeus Cornelius Salvatore Severin dom Contravarius-Parma y d'Alatriste Enghien, Barone di Rubicon ((Contravarius))

VICEROY OF TUNISIA AND THE SAHARA: Signore Cesare Agostin Balbo ((Noco19))

GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF JERUSALEM: Signore Alfonso Vitali ((oxfordroyale))

GOVERNOR OF ITALIAN EAST AFRICA: Signore Nathan Constantino Fabron ((Naxhi24))



PRIME MINISTER: Don Massimo Pio Giuseppe Cordero, Marquess di Montezemolo ((m.equitum))​

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[Andre Massena]

I am honored by the Prime Minister's confidence in my abilities and I accept the post of Minister of Transportation and Railroads.

-Duke G.G.G. Bonaretti di Venezia