The policy prescriptions of the 5 Star Movement can be found in two main documents, published in 2012 and 2013. The most important is that of 27 December 2012, insofar as it has been posted on the website of the leader of the Movement, Mr. Grillo and, for this reason, it can be conceived as the official programme of the Movement. In general terms, one can observe that this document mainly focuses on environmental issues, while relatively little attention is devoted to purely economic questions.More in detail, two basic remarks are in order. First, the class dimension as well as the class nature of political decisions are ignored; second the restructuring of Italian capitalism in the years of the crisis are not taken into consideration.As regards the first point, it is

"A European cultural consciousness exists and there exists a series of manifestations by intellectuals and politicians who maintain the need for a European union: it can also be said that the historical process leads towards this union and that there are many material forces that will be able to develop only in this union. If in 10 years’ time this union is achieved the word nationalism will have the same archaeological value as municipalism now has."  (Antonio Gramsci, 1931)There is no doubt that the current institutional architecture of the Eurozone and the austerity policies implemented in recent years are absolutely