AHC: Keep the Lega Lombarda/Lega Nord left wing

Once upon a time, this happened:

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Over the course of the next 20 years, the Lega became the very thing it was once against, a far right party quite close to (Marine) Le Pen's own party, that has all but abandoned any autonomist or secessionist sentiment, and that wouldn't really describe itself as a spiritual successor of World War 2 insurgents against the Fascist regime. How to keep it from drifting to the right, and would it be possible for it to turn into the North's version of the (nominally) left wing Catalanist parties instead? Many of its early members (and even Matteo Salvini himself) were once affiliated with the PCI, after all...
 
For those of us who don't speak Italian, could you do a TL/DR of the poster? I gather it's opposing Le Pen on the grounds that she is a "fascist", but what are the details? Sometimes right-wing parties criticize other right-wing parties(espeially when national interestes are at stake), and they're not averse to using the word "fascist" as an insult, even if their own politics are pretty much fascist. (Not saying that's neccessarily what's happening here.)
 
For those of us who don't speak Italian, could you do a TL/DR of the poster? I gather it's opposing Le Pen on the grounds that she is a "fascist", but what are the details? Sometimes right-wing parties criticize other right-wing parties(espeially when national interestes are at stake), and they're not averse to using the word "fascist" as an insult, even if their own politics are pretty much fascist. (Not saying that's neccessarily what's happening here.)

Fascism, as the name of the movement implies, dictates a set-up for the state not unlike that of a fasces - a centralist state.

The autonomist movements such as the Lombard League are the antithesis of Fascism, since they advocate for a federalist state. To liken the Lombard League to Le Pen-ism is therefore inaccurate, since they are political movements whose aims are the antithesis of each other. The Lombard League fights to turn the state into a less centralist, therefore less fascist, polity. A centralist state does not represent all its citizens, but only a country's ethnic majority, that in Italy is represented by Southerners.

In Italy right now, it is sufficient that a party be present in the whole country to turn into a party under Southerner hegemony, therefore a party prone to granting unilateral privileges that heavily discriminate against the Cisalpine peoples. Coloured immigrants [in France] are another matter entirely, since they aren't an ethnic majority and can't really assert a supposed hegemony over the French peoples. Maybe they could eventually be the cause of societal issues, but not really of fundamental issues regarding hegemony and freedom.

If someone like Le Pen exists in France, it's because France's electoral laws are even less democratic than Italy's, even though Rome's parties are trying to change them already, and prevents autonomists movements from letting their voices be heard in Parliament.

The Le Pen phenomenon demonstrates that, where autonomies are cancelled, Fascism inevitably grows.

Therefore, NO to Fascists advocating for Fascism, and racists advocating for racism.
 
For those of us who don't speak Italian, could you do a TL/DR of the poster?

Strong centralization is Fascist. Lega Lombarda is not centralist, the opposite, so it's nothing like Old Man Le Pen. Italy would be dominated by the ethnic majority - Southerners - while immigrants in France cannot ever be a ethnic majority (implying thus centralization is wrong in both cases). And yes, back then Lega Lombarda (and the sister movement Lega Veneta) was indeed more leftist.

I think the main way to make this happen is earlier organization/radicalization, or no 'Tangentopoli' and 'Mani Pulite' destroying the First Republic. Once that crisis happens, there's just too much incentive to play the electoral game... and not-so-coincidentally, the biggest space happens to be on the right/far-right area in a moment when Italy enters a crisis, making industrials lean towards politically Conservative voting.
 
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