Article : http://harvardpolitics.com/world/whats-next-for-catalonia/
comentari:
let me point out some questions:
1.- About the "slight
mayority": according to the results of the last elections done in
catalonia the last 21st of december 2018, the different parties and
ideologies represented by them obtained the next percentages:
- Ciudadanos (extreme right, spanishness) = 25,3 %
- Partido Popular (center right, spanishness, party that dominates full spain)= 4,3%
Ciudadanos and Partido Popular are the adamantly opposed to independence= 29,5%
- Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (center left, catalanist, federalist): 13,8%
- Podem-En Comú (Eu-IC) (lefttish, catalanist, federalist, neutral on the indy issue): 7,4%
PSC
and Comuns defend a catalan state federated as equal to the spanish
state. En comú in particular was neutral on the independence issue, so
both had part of the independentist votes.
- CUP (leftish, catalanist, neatly independentist) = 4,46%
- ERC (center left, catalanist, neatly independentist) = 21,38%
- Junts per catalunya (center right, catalanist, neatly independentist) = 21,66%
Cup, ERC and Junts make 47,5% neatly independentist
So there is here a 68,75% of voters backing a catalan state. Thats not a slight majority.
Theres at least a 47,5% clearly independentist, but only a 29,5% clearly anti independence.
Have
been more clearly indepentist voters in this 21st elections than there
were in the 1st of october referendum (when state terrorized people in
order to avoid them to go to vote. More than 2 milion voted then for
independence).
You simply cant trust on the surveys done by spain on the issue.
The
only way to know if there is a majority of catalans who want
independence is to let them express. And that, existing legal ways to be
done, cant be done because of the denial of the spanish state. By this
way, the spanish state is opposing to more than 80% of catalan people
who, independentist or not, think that have the right to express their
opinion. And thats not a slight majority either.
2.- After that ,
you say that is all about selfishness. What would happen if..?
(corsica, sardinia, sicily, Venice, Basque country, and so on). About
this issue: what about the selfishness of the beneficiaries of the
status quo? What about that majority of spaniards who deny a national
minority to have rights? Thats not an issue?
Catalans are doing a
revolution consisting in trying to change borders, againts the will ot
the state within they are, and without the blood that uses to be
required to write them on the maps.
3.- Finally: is not a matter
of catalan nationalism since the only nationalism in catalonia consists
in saying that catalans are a nation. You can call them nationalists if
you do the same to any person in the world who defends that his nation
is a nation.
The only dangerous nationalism is imperialism,
consisting in one nation walking over another. Nazism was imperialism
(the III Reich, do you remember?). Spain has a long imperialist
tradition (mixed with fanatic religion). USSR was imperialism. Mussolini
was imperialism (remembering the roman empire times and with campaign
in greece included).The european nationalism itself began as a reaction
to the napoleonic imperialism. While the worldwide extension was also a
reaction againts imperialist colonialism.
So dont mix the questions, please.
The majority for a catalan sovereighnity is not slight at all (68,75% for statehood, more than 80% for the right of vote)
The question of selfishness should be rethinked.
The use of the nationalist issue is closely a manipulation of the real facts since ignores the real question: imperialism.
thanks for your approach to this issue; sorry for my poor english. Thanks for reading my comment. Have a nice day.
