The Role of Nelioberalism in the Construction of the Spanish Crisis

Although tensions may have plagued at least temporarily ʹthe fundamental issue that promotes this crisis, along with various other crises that have been and are still developing worldwide, they have not been resolved at all. This issue is neoliberalism.

When Karl Marx wrote in his Communist Manifest that <x0) modern bourgeois society is the wizard who is no longer able to control the powers of the new world he has named according to her magic”, he could have described today's crisis within neoliberalism.

Indeed, far from that, there is a crisis that has simply been intensified by the actions of different economic elites and governments that govern through their interests throughout the West and wherever liberal democratic ideas prevail. The current and escalating crisis of Spain's involvement in Catalonia's independence is an important case.

After taking part in the mass opposition march and gathering for Catalan independence in Barcelona on October 8th, I thought from the fact that it was not for this flood crisis of neoliberalism, including the introduction of draconian austerity measures by the Spanish government in Madrid over the last few years the outbreak of separatist movements, the rise of nationalism, xenophobic as something new within the political course would not likely happen.

The fact that it is happening is an act of the above-mentioned economic elites and carriers of their political bags; evidence that not only failed to teach the teachings of this ugly business of an economic system that lands as a tyrant over the life of the overwhelming majority living under it, rather than serving their own needs, but that their only response to the global economy that erupted in 2008 due to the contradictions and irrationality involved in it has been to impose more neberalism in the form of decontamination. The result has been a deepening of the crisis itself, which has confirmed that austerity measures will be overcome.

In the case of Catalan separatism, it is no coincidence that this crisis has come to the back of public spending cuts presented by Madrid in 2010, responsible for the postponement of millions of countries throughout the country, including Catalonia, poverty and unemployment. Add to the ingredients of cultural nationalism, national identity, and in the case of Spain's unresolved issues surrounding the civil war and the dictatorship of General Franco, and you have a perfect storm.

The situation is similar when it comes to showing the Scottish independence movement from the UK in recent years. Then we have Brex, spreading and increasing support for nationalist anti-party parties. - The EU in Europe, the choice of Trump in the US and moving further, Arab Spring 2011, before the form of an Arab winter of jihadism-selefi is changed, all of these are symptoms of the same neoliberal crisis.

This is basically a system and economic doctrine that can exist only in a state of conflict with national sovereignty, identity, and cultural pluralism. It is a proper size for the entire economic system that carries along a set of liberal values that do not respect specific national boundaries, cultures, or identities, by reducing the ability of states to take economic measures in the interest of their people than multinational banks and corporations that are actually commanding.

The instability and ruins made on behalf of this economic system and its accompanying liberal values have not only fostered separatist and nationalist movements in the West, but have also been a key factor in neo-imperialist attacks issued by Washington and its allies starting with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.

Perry Anderson writes about this world historical event and its consequences:

“Communism was dead, but capitalism had not yet found its form realised, as universal planetary under a unique hegemone. The free market was still not worldwide... In the hierarchy of states, the nations did not always know their place”.

The Russian people felt the sound of neoliberal economy during the 1990s, the same decade they saw Yugoslavia's collapse, followed in the next decade by Iraq's destruction when Washington managed to protect the dominance of the full spectrum, using the 11 September atrocities as a pretext. Afghanistan, Libya, the conflict in Syria, sanctions on Cuba, North Korea, what each of the countries mentioned above had or had in common, regardless of their specific characteristics, is that they refused to be dominated by Washington's neoliberal consensus.

Understanding the nature of this monster requires that we resist the easy option of treating all different conflicts and crises around the world in isolation. They are not isolated, they are inextricably linked to an economic system that is undoubtedly humanity's common enemy in our time.

Whatever happens in Catalonia, the needs of the people of the region will not be met simply by changing the national flag flying over municipal buildings. You can't eat a flag or put no food on the table, heat a house or educate children. This requires the necessity of the sovereignty not only of the political sovereign but also of economic sovereignty.

Irish rebel leader James Connolly, executed by the British in Dublin in 1916, before leading his men to fight and die for Ireland's national liberation, left no doubt about foolishness, believing that independence itself would suffice:

If tomorrow you defeat the English army and raise the green flag on Dublin Castle, if you have not decided to organize the Socialist Republic, your efforts would be in vain. England will rule you. It will rule you through its capitalists, through its owners, through its sponsors, through the entire collection of commercial and individual institutions planted in this country with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs”

Catalonian people have to take this note./Periscopi/

It says: John Wright

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