(Versione Inglese on Roubini.com ) Good old Karl Marx claimed that religion was the opiate of the peoples, a drug administered to the art bourgeoisie to proletariat to the latter, dazed and hazy from the smoke, might become meek suppliers of surplus value for capitalists , end-users then. An anesthetic, is a good bet, especially useful during systemic crisis, according to Marx, chronically afflict capitalist mode of production. If, as a result of bad karma, the philosopher of Trier reborn in 'contemporary Italy, would conclude it's largely correct view (at least on this one!), But with two important caveats: First, the "drug" here takes the features of the "crime" and then to dispense with both hands and, above all, the television property public. The figure below shows (with a blue line) an index of the collective for the crime of Avetrana, the intensity of the research that the Italians have done on Google in recent weeks containing the keywords "murder Scazzi"; the red line instead describes the intensity of research on the topic of "unemployment" (1).
(click on picture to enlarge) The graph shows that when the interest aroused by the sad events of Salento increases, the focus on the issues of unemployment tends to decline, and vice versa. The question that arises then Marx would be as follows: just quest'anestetico to quell the young unemployed and precarious Italian?
Notes:
(1) The unemployment rate calculated by Istat stands today at '8.5% of the workforce. According to the Bank of Italy this figure understates the scale of the problem: when you include the employees "discouraged" that have ceased to actively seek work and workers accupati "zero hour", paid by the redundancy fund, unemployment exceeds '11% of the workforce.
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