Hate is the social disease of our time, it twists human consciences and relationships and takes over our words, it is the great incubator of violence. Walter Veltroni’s new book is a journey into the universe of hatred: it starts from a past where we must not return (Fascism, the Years of Lead) and arrives at a difficult present marked by decline, from the lack of prospects for young people, to the fear of a future in the hands of few tech-financial giants. This is the ground for a hatred that is fueled and amplified by social media, where words become stones to throw, not only metaphorically, against those who are different by ethnicity, religion, sexual inclinations, political opinions. To those who spread hate and fear we must respond with the language of reason and hope.
“If people who hate hatred find the right words, then freedom will have a future. And in the future there will be freedom.”
Walter Veltroni
Walter Veltroni has been editor-in-chief of l’Unità, deputy Prime Minister, mayor of Rome, secretary of the Democratic Party and he ran for president in 2008. He is the author of Noi (2009), Quando cade l’acrobata, entrano i clown (2010), L’inizio del buio (2011), L’isola e le rose (2012), E se noi domani (2013), Quando c’era Berlinguer (2014), which also became a movie he directed, Ciao (2015), Quando (2017), Il sogno spezzato (1993; 2018), La sfida interrotta (1994; 2019), Roma. Storie per ritrovare la mia città (2019), Assassinio a Villa Borghese (2019), Odiare l’odio (2020), Buonvino e il caso del bambino scomparso (2020), Labirinto italiano (2020), Tana libera tutti (2021), Il caso Moro e la Prima Repubblica (2021), C’è un cadavere al Bioparco (2021). His most recent book is La scelta (2022). He also directed I bambini sanno (2015), Gli occhi cambiano (2016), Indizi di felicità (2017), Tutto davanti a questi occhi (2018), C’è tempo (2019), Fabrizio De André e PFM. Il concerto ritrovato (2020).
- Buonvino tra amore e morte (Buonvino between Love and Death)
- C’è un cadavere al Bioparco (There is a corpse at the Bioparco)
- Buonvino e il caso del bambino scomparso (Buonvino and the Case of the Missing Child)
- Odiare l’odio (Hating Hatred)
- Assassinio a Villa Borghese (Murder at Villa Borghese)