Post by account_disabled on Mar 11, 2024 0:03:01 GMT -5
History never repeats itself, but there are different moments in our history that, no matter how different the circumstances surrounding them, have many elements in common. One of those moments of historical similarities is what happened in Madrid in the 1930s, during the Second Republic, and what is happening now in that city as a result of the regional elections. In both moments, so distant in time (separated by almost a century), the country's dominant classes (now their heirs) have promoted ideologies that, although different, have many points in common. The ideology of the ruling classes of the 1930s (widely spread in several Western European countries) was fascism, a totalizing ideology that in its Spanish version defended the Bourbon monarchy, centered in the capital of the kingdom, Madrid, with a vision Jacobin of the Spanish State, which considered illegitimate the political forces ( hordes , they were called) based on the labor movement (socialists and communists) that threatened to alter its control over society, considering that it belonged to them by divine or historical right.
Their main objective was to maintain by all means, including authoritarian and undemocratic ones, the institutional power that would guarantee their political, economic and media dominance of the country. In the 1930s, Madrid became a symbol of anti-fascist resistance against the military forces that were besieging it. Never before has there been greater solidarity between Belgium Mobile Number List democratic forces throughout Spanish territory in defense of Madrid, besieged by fascism. The then president of the Generalitat, Lluís Companys (later shot by fascist troops), then coined his famous phrase “ Madrileños: Catalonia loves you! ”. Trumpism is the 21st century version of fascism Currently, the ideology of the ruling classes in Madrid (who are the heirs of the ruling classes of that time) is Trumpism. These classes have as their political instruments two political parties (PP and Vox, a split from the PP) that were founded by figures from the dictatorship established by a military coup in which the support of the troops sent by Hitler and Mussolini was decisive.
imposing one of the bloodiest dictatorships that have existed in Western Europe in the 20th century (for every political murder that Mussolini's fascist regime committed, the one led by Franco committed more than 10,000, according to the leading expert on European fascism, Professor Malefakis, of Columbia University, New York, USA). The ideology that these parties now support - Trumpism - has many characteristics similar to the Spanish fascism of their predecessors, from its extreme classist, racist, xenophobic and sexist nationalism, to its authoritarianism, considered illegitimate (both Vox and PP have indicated this). to the democratic left-wing coalition government, which they want to expel from the institutions. Two ideologies - fascism and Trumpism - with many common points There are more similarities between these two ideologies than those presented here (for expansion of this point, see my article Trumpism and its consequences for Madrid and Spain . But there are also differences, depending on the political context in which they are reproduced.
Their main objective was to maintain by all means, including authoritarian and undemocratic ones, the institutional power that would guarantee their political, economic and media dominance of the country. In the 1930s, Madrid became a symbol of anti-fascist resistance against the military forces that were besieging it. Never before has there been greater solidarity between Belgium Mobile Number List democratic forces throughout Spanish territory in defense of Madrid, besieged by fascism. The then president of the Generalitat, Lluís Companys (later shot by fascist troops), then coined his famous phrase “ Madrileños: Catalonia loves you! ”. Trumpism is the 21st century version of fascism Currently, the ideology of the ruling classes in Madrid (who are the heirs of the ruling classes of that time) is Trumpism. These classes have as their political instruments two political parties (PP and Vox, a split from the PP) that were founded by figures from the dictatorship established by a military coup in which the support of the troops sent by Hitler and Mussolini was decisive.
imposing one of the bloodiest dictatorships that have existed in Western Europe in the 20th century (for every political murder that Mussolini's fascist regime committed, the one led by Franco committed more than 10,000, according to the leading expert on European fascism, Professor Malefakis, of Columbia University, New York, USA). The ideology that these parties now support - Trumpism - has many characteristics similar to the Spanish fascism of their predecessors, from its extreme classist, racist, xenophobic and sexist nationalism, to its authoritarianism, considered illegitimate (both Vox and PP have indicated this). to the democratic left-wing coalition government, which they want to expel from the institutions. Two ideologies - fascism and Trumpism - with many common points There are more similarities between these two ideologies than those presented here (for expansion of this point, see my article Trumpism and its consequences for Madrid and Spain . But there are also differences, depending on the political context in which they are reproduced.
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