Anyone who thinks that Grillo is a progressive voice in Italy think again. He is part of the 1%.

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Despite its radical appearance and its revolutionary rhetoric, we believe that, over the past three years, the M5S has effectively defended the present system, acting as a force that has quelled rebellion and stabilised the system. Such a counterintuitive statement sounds absurd, if one only takes a superficial glance at Italian politics and society and looks no deeper. Really? Grillo, a stabilising factor? The man who wants to "send the old politics packing"? The man who, as everybody says, is going to make the country ungovernable? We believe that, over the past few years, Grillo's movement has ensured that the system in Italy remains the same.



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Here in Italy, a large proportion of this "indignation" was intercepted and reorganised by Grillo and Casaleggio – two wealthy men in their 60s with a background in the entertainment industry and in marketing. They created a political/economic franchise with its own copyright and trademark, a movement rigidly controlled and mobilised from the top, hijacking slogans and ideas from social movements and mixing them with apologies for an "ethical" capitalism, with superficial statements centred on the honesty of the individual/politician/administrator. They created a confused set of proposals, where neoliberal and anti-capitalist, centralist and federalist, libertarian and reactionary could co-exist. A manifesto for all occasions, cherry-picking ideas wherever they found them and whenever they considered them useful, typical of a diversionary movement.





http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/28/five-star-movement-beppe-grillo