«Make love, not war». Pacifism, conscientious objection and counterculture in Italy in 1960s
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since the future, as Spender affirms is «like a buried time bomb, but which lets its ticking be heard in the present».
To the question we have so often heard: who are those who are part of this generation?,
we are tempted to reply: Those who hear the ticking.
(Hannah Arendt, On Violence. Harvest Books New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1970)
Introduction
Pacifism, till the second half of the Sixties, was – as Amoreno Martellini would have it – «a false question»: the political movements, associations and their leaders, never posed any real threat to the government of any country, not even to the Italian ones, and neither did they ever represent any obstacle to the military institutions.
