For some time, in some areas criticizes excessive optimism of those who believe in the boom times ahead. The barrage of biased news daily, and no less induced chronic hurry that characterize our daily life, in this “democratic” Valhala no less convinced of mass consumption narcotizante, impossible serene and profound analysis of the parameters that make political times. But despite that the forest disallows the clear, it is closer than ever.
And it is no less true, that indeed, the responsibility of the political actors and social agents of the Basque Country in the absence of coherent and radical proposals, which are not extremists, which converge with the wishes of the majority of Basque society, as reflected in countless studies demoscópicos, conspicuous by their absence today and deepens collective despair. The mediocre and logrera political leadership of the party allegedly abertzales and independence, continues to generate dynamic away towards pasotismo and delegacionismo resigned to many people and too powerless, and feed the existing framework of oppression. Yes, Oppression, Oppression capitalized.
That is also the key defining scientifically induced the current situation pastry, is the transmission of speech which systematically diluted the majority perception of a lack of freedom and oppression. “Do Liberarnos? What? Whom? “. “Nazi Germany was oppressive, the Franco too, but talk of Oppression today with how well we live…” clear and without oppression, repression nor will we not? Everything is a problem of limits “democratic” that “must be owned and internalized” by… Is subversive? Indeed, scales and questionable concepts or cold terms, rather than, experiences, feelings, beliefs, principles.
In this cold logic, behaviorism consumerist, welfare credit and democratic camelos allegedly have abducted thousands of people who have lost the notion of being oppressed, both socially and nationally. Neither the unions nor the parties abertzales worthy of legality exogenously imposed are as instruments of liberation. They part, defend, live for him, articulate, reform. Everything is measured. It is appropriate concepts, discarded others, transform, prostitutes. National rights, civil, union democracy, freedom… blah blah blah. They speak for the gallery respectively, for abducted more susceptible to the parish. But really, when cacareados rights are violated in a systematic way within the system and Order denying that the most naturally radical, extreme, Chitón! For what might happen. The “do not trouble goals” of the paradigmatic family model “apoliticismo organic Franco,” Alcantara version collectively.
Hence these goal posts is impossible Candidacy National Unified, or Aberri Eguna Unico National Initiative or any other articulation that allows activating a National Representation to address with determination the foundation oppressive denial of the Basque Country as a nation and the right of its people to decide their future, as momentous axis to overcome the current status quo imposed. Today it looks like a myth ask overcoming the partisanship interested in pursuing a convergence practice, which does not coalition!, Allowing unify the identity heterodox popular in a single hegemonic national voice that requires the recognition of and respect for Nation the popular will of its citizens in forums where appropriate. But soon we will see the end of this long cycle, clearly deslegitimado and exhausted, and new Europeans will concerning crucial influence on the political dynamics of national character which they arise.
An example overwhelming. The recent popular demonstration in the streets of Bilbao in pursuit of a national team itself, (there are spectacular indexes demoscópicos that talk about percentages close to 90%! Questioning definitely fallacious goeebelssiano speech and 50% of unionist / nationalist governing any discussed for years) is the paradigm of political actors who are incapable of articulating proposals consistent with the desires for independence majority, outside legal frameworks and electoral exogenous taxes, which distorted the map real and proportional representative of the citizenry. This chasm between players and arrecia popular participation, and we can see that in fact, is becoming increasingly necessary defendant and the generation of new dynamic to articulate that middle lane huge boost to the country towards recovery state. Learn from other processes such as the Slovenian and Estonian, for example.
Very few of the players mentioned so publicly questioned the lack of democratic legitimacy of the current framework, even knowing that behind the scenes there is a representative present imbalance huge correlation between the popular will, so far unexpressed in its entirety, and the context partial representation that delimits exogenous agents and the players themselves protagonists in the current status quo. Hence, systematic recourse to the end, and after tens of adjectives and epithets homologadores, to the idea of “conflict” to try to explain the various scenarios point to something as simple as the national liberation struggle (in the broadest sense of concept) of a community that feels oppressed since he was snatched away its legal political entity of its own. Today it is difficult to express freely these criteria because it is a trend perverse and manipulative mixing discussion of the diagnosis, evaluation of the methodologies, basically navy, but also civil disobedience is now criminalized, cancelling and spoiled the debate radical on the ground characterization of what is usually called “political conflict”.
Obviously from a perspective radically democratic, political and social transformation must have their weight in the diagnosis should result from a scientific observation of reality. Hence, the parameters liberators currently pose, since most areas that assume this diagnosis political, requiring a logical connection between references and historical rights of the entity sojuzgada and sociopolitical reality resulting from centuries of transformation, which I would certainly allows the articulation of the right to decide collectively by developing a process of self-determination. But until these parameters resolution so radically democratic are denied and repressed in the current scenario.
Both the French state as in the Spanish works the same cliché. “Everything within the Constitution, nothing outside.” Refused ( “Euskal Herria is a myth”) and reneging (Navarre was the CFN is today and is voluntarily Spain), which is not recognized any nation, it is not respected or groups or individuals because there are no outside be considered subjects of the Crown or the Republic. Without question the Magna Carta, you tolerated. Period. There is negotiated. Neither with “terrorists”, nor tolerated. As there exist the right to decide collective implausible and it will remind everyone that FF.AA are guarantors of National Unity as 500 years. 800 years later, 40 years of Francoism and 30 “democracy” and nothing new under the sun.
Indeed there are reasons for pessimism, a feeling that today acompleja large part of the people who yearn for a free Basque Country, Navarra politically, within the International Community. A malaise that distorts historically more positive options to overcome more than 500 years of loss of sovereignty of the state of Navarre.
Fifteen years ago in Eastern Europe was a gradual process recoveries state and processes independence. In a few years she spent a “framework unchangeable” at the international level, a dynamic process which again backbone so radically the political map of Europe. Today is the day that so sharp all analysts point to a parallel process in Western Europe. In the coming years we can see how the misnamed Stateless European nations, former European states subjugated, recovering statehood and become full-fledged actors at the European level. That is our train and we can not lose it.
The historical cycles, structural changes are meteóricos. In the twenty-first century, the technological revolution and globalization have created perverse dynamic but also new resources. Think what they have to change our personal lives in a half-decade. The amount of daily adjustments we make to live in this model based on communication, information. The communities have many new resources to activate, push, force. Many political changes have occurred in the past two decades! He ended the era of immovable, as mammoth. Small nations like ours have demonstrated that through relationships, mobilization, disobedience, it is possible parallelism… articulate new forms of collective organization.
Despite not systematic, oppressive depressing every day, there are elements exciting as ever. The international scene and the time are encouraging; resources as a people of the First World enormous. The Diaspora increasingly aware, thirst for compromise. There are more Basque than ever, national consciousness more than ever, more sense of identity, more pride, more symbols, more windows to know our true history, more economic power, more social activity, more cultural, technological, yet much capacity for mobilization , a lot of willingness to fight… and especially a key element: the modern independence movement defined from heterodoxy, it is inclusive, democratic and, above all, radically fleeing patrioteros exclusive concepts, chauvinistic and xenophobic.
By contrast in the twenty-first century bread-Spanish rancid nationalism, militarism, traditionalist, patriotero, blessed and violently imperialist far from being a drag historic recovers as ideological axis on the right neofranquista, and the secular and modern version set to eufemístico concept of constitutional patriotism, is a resource of the purest aesthetic unionism totalitarian human face, not ignores violence to ensure the sacred unity of the nation. The crisis is evident.
But what nation? Spain as a national project takes 500 years unfinished: without assimilation or extermination of nations Basque or Catalan not remain just a draft. There is a desire, it is a reality. Every day more evidence an identity crisis memorable spurs the return of speeches more rancid Bishops, monarchs or military. The Spanish FF.AA suffer a serious crisis of vocations and identity (more than a quarter of its members are foreign mercenaries), the symbol of the monarchy National Unity and the transition is more compromised than ever, and so a large number of indicators show that the artificial sense of identity references Spanish weaken despite efforts by nationalist imbue “fury torera” to the masses. An example was given about the pathetic episode of the recreation of a letter to the Spanish anthem, recently published and discarded. Some of the reactions reinforce inconsistency in the notion of Spain as a nation rooted.
Thus, in El País, just yesterday, JP Fusi, Professor of Contemporary History, a member of the jury that awarded the letter of Paulino Cubero, said it was difficult to accompany the anthem with a letter when the very idea of Spain as a nation is questioned part of the territory. “It’s much more difficult when there is a homogeneous nation, living moments of exaltation national,” he stresses. The exaltation Spanish is worrying in traffic jams, the Madrid-Barça or formula 1 “.
Others as Agustin Garcia Calvo librepensador, Spanish poet and playwright, suggests that “I do not think you find something really new because then it would be my anthem Madrid that it was a hymn to end all hymns,” and added “The national anthem already had a letter, which was used to highlight progress and the new regime, the future, and all that in the final analysis. Remember. “And after all, the current regime, the regime of money, the state entirely devoted to the movement of capital, continues exalting the same as the previous regime, as well as for purposes of elation that the future of Spain anthem was fine.
For historian Jose Alvarez Junco finding a letter please everyone seemed a heroic task because if we want to give substance to a hymn, if you do not want done something completely trivial, should achieve a political agreement among the vast majority of political forces and the general public about the common values. “Typically, such an agreement would be achieved in the past, at a time when founding the company, and now, but becomes a little outdated and a little alien to our values as it would be accepted.” But that agreement did not happen because the founding moments of the initial stages of modernity in Spain were very confrontational language, bloody, with no possibility of agreement between the factions.
Finally, the communicator Antonio Gutierrez-Ruby, founder of Ideograma, a company specialized in public communication and social thinks. “What seems essential is that in Spain there are different feelings in relation to the word and the concept Spain. “Then, those feelings, the better they are private and individual, which are not exposed to the full glare of publicity. Sing sing or not is to break that privacy. “
Reveladoras opinions that lay bare the broad debate that always wants to avoid Spanish nationalists denial of the existence of the Basque Country: the totalitarian idea that the unit Indivisible guaranteed by armed force is the only formula that has historically been able to use the political project to approach Spanish artificially to the constitution of an alleged Spanish nation with its own identity.
It really is that the drama: They are not, nor allow themselves to be, or rather: Not to be left for them trying to be.
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