Marxism and nationalism, town and state

Rule of Iñigo Saldise Alda, a member of Nabarralde, appeared on his blog: http://soberaniadenavarra.blogspot.com

In the thesis Engels on Marxism, they are affirming that the basque people is a people without history. Therefore, lacking a story itself, is doomed to disappear, integrated with other nations in history. Apparently this revolutionary ideologue unaware of the existence of a State basque over 8 centuries, in the form of kingdom, whose name is Navarre.

Instead, Karl Marx, in his complete works, works policies, makes the following reference to the Cortes General Navarre:

<< Of all the provinces in which the courts retain real power in time of the French invasion, only Navarre had retained the old habit of convening courts States. More among Basques, corporations, almost entirely democratic, not even admit the clergy>>.

These assertions, apparently unknown or obviadas by Frederick Engels, contradict the argument of it, proving the existence of a story for the people basque, different from the Spanish and French State, through these cuts with some autonomy, inherited from the old ways of the natural “province” of Navarre.

Already in the second half of the decade of 1850, we can put the settlement of this movement faced capitalism. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, in the year 1848, edited the Communist Manifesto, where we can see the essence of his ideological approach.

There are later works of other authors argue that the inconsistency between the “Marxism” and “nationalism”. To do so is based on a phrase taken out of context of the Communist Manifesto, where Marx said that “the workers have no homeland”.

These writers considered self internationalists, albeit without renouncing their nationality, denying and preventing along with the other members of their national group claims considered independence movements of peoples outside their nation, including the people basque.

The people basque has a long political history, which shows the error of Engels. A century before the Communist Manifesto, Antonio de Larramendi defends a national project known as the United Provinces of the Pyrenees, in the form of a Republic, which contemplates the possibilities of aristocratic or democratic government.

Despite the figure of the father and other authors Larramendi later, we must wait for the end of the nineteenth century with the emergence of Sabino Arana, considered father of nationalism basque. It is a nationalism that has no historical rigour, which reaffirms the proposition Engels.

Despite this, Sabino Arana achieves that basque people regain the feeling regarded nation. A feeling lost along the various invasions Castilian, first, and after Spanish and French. This loss was increased after the Carlist wars, especially the first one, referring to miss the basque State, the Kingdom of Navarre.

This nationalist wrong approach, based on misconceptions and lack of historical rigour, has come to the present day. And it has desdoblado in two versions, between nationalism conservative, Democrat and even social democrat on the one hand, together with other socialist and communist, the latter due to the influence of Marxist ideas.

This nationalism basque, setting aside his social approach is outdated in its claims, the absence of a historical basis, which is essential to sustain a minimum collective consciousness and achieve the much desired independence for the people basque. To do this you should look back to the nineteenth century.

He was a nineteenth century full of new ideas and military conflicts. Senator Garat, north of the Pyrenees, in the year 1811, he ponders the formation of a “National Basque State” with the two sides of the Pyrenees, whose flag and coat of arms would be those of Navarre. Agustin Xaho, when making the romantic novel Journey to Navarre during the insurrection of the Basques, in the year 1838, offers a national vision of the country, however, about the kingdom of Navarre.

These authors announce a pre-basque nationalism, but with a clear reference State and based on Basque history. But not only identify these ideologues Navarre as a State of the Basque nation. Here we have the figure of the Liberal Serafin Olave, that in the year 1883, the constitutional foundation of the Republic of Navarre, tells us the following:

“In order to assistant trend rejoining Navarre, granted the rights of the citizen Navarre La Rioja, and Navarre vascongados French for the sixth Merindad Ultrapuertos upon request, with lower quarter of the time required in each case those specified, and the residence in the territories expressed, which can render great service to the propaganda of the idea annexationist, is considered within Navarre for all legal purposes”.

In conclusion, I must say that the people basque need to recover the sovereignty of the State of Navarre to achieve this independence. There is a need to set aside our differences banal, abandon partisan ideologies, united in the clamour sovereigntist. Only by pooling efforts we will achieve the political status of historic Navarre.