There’s a second Spanish Revolution happening in Spain NOW! |
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| By: athena1 Thursday September 6, 2012 1:00 am | |
Sorry if this has already been mentioned here.
Spaniards are HARD CORE. The video says it all.
If you’re not familiar with the historical context, read at least the first chapter of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. The whole book is available for free here:
http://www.studyplace.org/w/images/3/38/Orwell-1938-homage-to-catalonia.pdf
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More background here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSaif5pYljk&feature=plcp
Poor Spain. Unemployment, especially among the young, that high is never a good or comforting sign. IMHO, banksters, should they have read history, don’t believe its lessons apply to them, apparently.
Gordio? I can think of a couple of countries that could use a few of him.
Hope he is careful, especially when starting his car.
rec’d
Thank you, walkinboots.
I do not know what flavor of leftie I am.
I just know that I think the new “technocrats” are a bunch of fascists. And they, in their “supreme” neolibeal wisdom., are fascists.
Viva Andalucia!
The solution is outside of capitalism.
Americans cannot be arsed to unite.
Have you heard a better description of the problem?
Thanks for posting this, Athena. We need to know more about what is going on in places like Greece and Spain. Recc’d.
Didn’t the right wing dictator win the first one?
Sánchez Gordillo is potentially important, especially if he connects with the Indignado movement and gives it some leadership, he has strategy and he has an organization… but the sad truth is that not that long ago the Spanish people gave an overwhelming, absolute majority in parliament to the right wing, Popular Party led by Mariano Rajoy, which should keep them in effectively absolute power for the next three and a half years… Years that they will use to dismantle Spain’s welfare state… They got this majority with relatively few actual votes, massive abstention because “disappointed” Socialist voters stayed home and didn’t hold their noses and vote socialist. Now they and their children will have to live with the result.
Perhaps this is the most important lesson that Firedoglake readers should take away from the Spanish experience and apply in America this autumn.
Perhaps the Spanish can afford politique du pire more than Amerika. Is the disgust with fascism still vivid there, comrade? I know they have been suppressing the history of the dictatorship. If Spain’s property ownership is truly organized like that of Amerique Latine, and the EU abandons Spain, you are in for some interesting times, comrade.
A couple of notes: Andalucia’s landownership problem is not typical of the rest of the country and often the views that Spanish have about Franco and his rule are determined by what side your family fought on in the Civil War.Polls always show that Spain is a country of the “center-left”. The reason that they now have this right wing government with more power than anyone has had since Franco died, is because socialist voters had a snit and stayed home on election day or voted for irrelevant third parties… This should be a lesson to Americans, n’est pas?
What you do have right now is much more about unemployment than anything else. Youth unemployment is over 50%.
Thought I could let this go…
…but can’t.
We get it already David, okay? You’re voting for O. You endorse lessr-evilism. You consider alternative parties “irrelevant.” Canada’s NDP was widely considered irrelevant too. Until suddenly, it wasn’t.
With the Green Party qualifying for matching funds for the first time in its history, Gary Johnson’s (admittedly nutty) perpetration of Libertarianism resonating widely, and fully 50 percent of Americans now self-identifying as Independents, you’d think party-liners like you might take a lesson from a man I think we both consider a hero, and begin to “…dream of things that never were and say, ‘Why not?’”
Your barely veiled inference that a vote for alternative parties might somhow spoil things is sheer nonsense. THEY ARE ALREADY SPOILED. Obama’s freshness date expired January 22, 2009 (prior to taking office, actually, when he chose his first, mentally challenged chief of staff).
When the Democrats, like Canada’s Liberal Party, are finally kicked to the curb and must resort to begging their actually Left replacements to take them into their coalition – whether that is now or 20 years from now – remember, they’ll have only their lesser-evilist tendencies and apologists like you to blame.
Like the Spanish Socialists at the time hadn’t sold out the Spanish people to corporate interests anymore than America’s Democrats have!!!!
Spanish Socialist=American Democrat v. Spanish Popular(fascist) Party=American Republican Party.
Subtle(sarcasm intended). Real subtle.
Not really. Thanks for playing.
Just heard that the first Spanish Revolution is considered by some to be the predecessor of WWII.
I can hardly wait.
Two nonvoters:
1. William Lloyd Garrison, until slavery was abolished.
2. W.E.B. DuBois, 1956.
Spain like the USA is a two party system. A vote for anything but PSOE or PP is a wasted vote in national elections. Other countries have other systems… Holland and Israel make coalitions with many small parties, this has advantages and disadvantages. The American system is not parliamentary and we are stuck with it. As readers are probably aware, politics in America requires incredible amounts of money, so any viable third party would have to be started by a billionaire… this is what the Koch brothers have done with the Tea Party or maybe Bloomberg and Soros might put something together. The only way to pressure this system is through activism as MLK did.
Electing POTUS is too cheap. If it costs $6 billion this year, that is 0.03% of GDP and 0.5% of corporate profits. The RORs on such donations are in the hundreds or thousands of percents.
Utter. UniParty. Bullshit.
One could add “enabling,” as in enabling a drunk by making excuses, or cleaning up his messes, or other forms of similar behavior. Voting for O would be enabling the Ds to shift father right and become greater corp whores.
But that is what there is… only MLK type activism can move it or modify it.
MLK was murdered when he stared addressing capitalism. That option is inadequate.
A better argument on your side would be the likelihood of theocratic fascism. I just learned that Woodrow Wilson was a fundamentalist Kwistian. Wilson subverted the “Progressive Era” with domestic suppression, warfare, and illusions of world domination. O’Bummer, in the framework of degenerating capitalism, may be less threatening.
DFH’s may be in shock dealing with the collapse of their golden age expectations but they are ignoring the ruthlessness of capitalism in the American context. O’Bummer is constrained by that context, though he is a fraud. If DFH’s understood the ruthlessness and proclivities of their hegemonster and the desperate situation they are in, would gambling with a market fundamentalist like Romney and theocratic demagogue like Ryan be wise.
The failure of the majority of the population to understand how heinous their elite and government are is no excuse to mis-evaluate their choice. This country becomes disgusting but is registering their disgust something they can afford?
On the contrary, it shows he was on the right track… Did you think this was going to be easy?