Re: <nettime> Catalonia and mainstream opinion

[Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com>]

On 10/07/2017 07:23 AM, Lennaart van Oldenborgh wrote:
> why not link up with disenfranchised voters in Madrid, Euskadi and 
> (based on chml’s info) Murcia and fight for a more democratic, diverse, 
> devolved, representative, etc Spanish state?

I think it is fair to say that the most progressive left elements in 
Catalunya have been doing this for years! Since 2011. That's how they 
achieved so much more than any other progressive left formation across 
the Western world. However the situation is very difficult and the 
linkages that have been made do not automatically produce democratic 
social relations under the broader conditions of contemporary oligarchies.

I apprciate Simona's post because it shows what movement politics are 
about: actively trying to find the light at the end of a dark and 
crowded tunnel.

Brian
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