Pablo Iglesias and WE: much bread crumb little
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Javier Gómez Jiménez (Doctor of Education) javilalaguna@hotmail.com
Tenerife?. Canary Islands.
In Spain, after the transition from the Franco dictatorship in 1975-1978, until today, a party of social and ideological Catholic Center, a social democratic Socialist Party and Liberal Party (pp ) they have ruled capitalism and class struggle until today. Corruption and inequality, have mobilized to citizenship. And in 2014 -PODEMOS- party presented to the European elections comes, collects a million and a half votes, and generates an unexpected situation, standing in the polls even as an alternative that wins votes, either as a second opposition force or government. Here’s my analysis of this game, which I spread the same day that one of its founders, Juan Carlos Monedero, decides to resign, in the sense of distortion party increasingly formalized …
It began:
This is not an article that tries to defame the political party leaders, parishioners and parishioners to the way fascism and means of mass communication confused with hired porters and hegemonic launches its usual sort of prejudices about everything that supposedly threatens to alter the order of social and economic injustice established. It is in this case a brief and concise analysis of this social and political movement, the current capitalism, in the dialectic and critical analysis of class struggle and of nonconformity with formal democracy, or the monarchical dictatorship coated freedoms expression are essentially false in general terms in the Spanish country. And is that everyone knows by now that on the exercise of full freedom, it does not exist or is hardly bearable, surmountable or sorteable repression while freedom of expression is censored and limited by economic pressures and fears to which it is subjected the staff accepts the dominant hegemonic common sense conservative, irrational and uncritical system ideas.
This year 2014 and the promotion of cesarean calculated the European elections, to warm things up ahead of national elections or Spanish city, was formally witnessed the birth of a political party whose initials are WE. That is, as the optimistic, stimulating and motivating term indicates, an invitation and a collective reaffirmation to total conviction needed to take action from political power and local and central government essentially parliamentary institutions of Spain. Although it does not have its acronym, however, the other political parties, always shout them militants, supporters and potential voters, the arrival time of the electoral circus, and bologna sandwiches with caviar caps, which are in your party who may only. Moreover, only those who are dating mostly from the rest. Do all applicants not speak of course always surfeit of staff, and try to pick an upset disappointment and place their bait and hooks and program offers products to the highest bidder
say their spokesmen, especially the most visible face? – a university professor of political science at Madrid Complutense University, Pablo Iglesias who want to transform society, beginning with taking political power, and for that take the seat to have had their buttocks traditionally there aposentadas: Popular Party, Socialist Workers Party Spanish, Izquierda Unida, UPyD, autonomous nationalists … paraphrasing the charismatic leader and formally democratic of assemblies of WE CAN, are politicians and policies that are part of the great breed of capitalism that have joined trade interests, particularly private and business millionaires, with interest politicians who have nothing to do with the interests of the masses and most unassisted, marginalized, ninguneada excluded from decision making taxpayers.
CAN political formula has been called a search of horizontality, that is, a commitment to active participation of militants in CAN, through meetings in plazas, warehouses, garages … and the many discussion circles scattered across the state, politics closer to the people involved. In the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela are the Bolivarian Circles, however, such began to form in fact and disseminated, expand and began to work when and Hugo Chavez, his peisidente, had been elected by the people, even as he began his second term, after the first year. In Spain the formula is not known whether it will have results that have begun to reverse. And maybe instead of reaching to the lower classes, CAN circles together more affluent social groups whose policy orientation prevent a mass movement transformer.
It is assumed that such a tactic and strategy of participation eminent returns the confidence of the masses in politics, which was beginning to crack and why they were mass social movements as 15M, etc., which has been linked WE CAN. Reason which should be studied, because the outrage with the system was already far from the university, or at least from a small sector of that elite, with Marxist perspective or critical. In any case, one can say that the “do not represent us” that part of the people said the political caste went over to “we will be the ideal representatives” and 15M diluted like sugar in the ruling that criticized: WE CAN It would thus become a kind of broom: if I had a broom, few things sweep … I do not know is if the garbage us will disappear, or will eat carpet downstairs neighbor … In any case, the song seems quite Menshevik 15M “there is so much sausage bread” with CAN find it too for so little crumb … For beyond his asambleario formalism, and a thinking university elite caste, crumb containing its participation structures, the absence of yeast that can not be improvised historically, is not much revolutionary bread crumbs, we say … rather petty bourgeois.
course, at a time when the media spread so many cases of petty corruption in politics and elected and elected institutional representatives, speaking to erase shit is a final popular result, especially when it comes from outside of politics, there is no apparent history of corruption, because in addition come from positions economic socially privileged as offices of university professors, and this gives an alleged moral and intellectual authority to establish itself not only in broom, but vacuum dirt.
However, requiring all said, avoiding hasty statements which in any case are not possible, is a rigorous and objective analysis, to answer the following questions: Given the apparent mistrust among the masses has been generating the political system and the -¿representativa “representative” democracy of who? – mainly among young or mature younger people, from diverse backgrounds, it suits the system to a new supposedly different from the existing political party which we can revitalize lost by distrust among the contributing institutions masses? That is, is CAN a party that comes to re-grease the capitalist system and the formal democracy, which denies the class struggle, and legitimizes the ideology of upward social mobility, meritocracy, the alleged equal opportunities?
From the outset, the answer to the following questions seem to leave no doubt: CAN appears when because of distrust in institutions by a large part of society, brought to power a traditional and conservative caste by a one time again, but in the anteroom it was a huge part of youth which will soon where will the adult masses and workers, and consumers – is incubating a sense of total rejection by the political class and its institutions. Sometimes we sense that not because they do what evil do, but I can not be the power situation of those who do, to do the same, or more eager … In this case, we can be a formula in backroom of the stage, the same system conducive to awaken common sense and faith in the system itself, under the idea that the institutions should not change them, just enough to change the faces and the faces of the ages of those who occupy, plus some other counterhegemonic term without being foundation of new democratic hegemony. Furthermore, to deny the class struggle, the interclassism can also give results …
If so, it would be quite naive to just people who have studied social and political sciences, lend themselves to such a simulacrum of social transformation. Unless satisfy the ego seeing occupying a space in the political history of the country, his good intentions blind them until seeing the cables which drove them puppets, they do wake up. It seems, then, that these are part of the OPUS-dei necessary in light version. And once already there, on stage, reconsider and opt for that of “since we’re here, well, before they are them, they are bad, we were us, we are better and less sinners, despite our tendency the politician curiosity. “And then came other naive to replace them when navels prominent and satisfied and hinder their future guaranteed an accurate picture of what happened, and we sell revolving -door -through its history by new episodes of ego Tell me how it happened, postjuancarlista version. And revisionism by volumes …
Interestingly, the emergence of CAN matches that “new time” that the new monarch established without despeinársele the crown. In this case, but in reverse, a leader of CAN, Juan Carlos Monedero, says Juan Carlos left the throne following the onset of CAN is worth a precision: CAN appears precisely because Juan Carlos I needed to stop and the throne . Never a change of terms changed both the meaning of the sentence, between subject and predicate.
Moreover, even within the same political party WE CAN, there are those who suggest that there are not only look different caste, but there to be distinctly caste, because they want to look like the breed. It is that there are very clear that they have sufficient moral principles to get into the lion’s den and not end up eaten only by caste, but being also the wolf. Let’s see if it will be true that they are the wolf, but a capitalist wolf, again with claws and teeth with cavities for bourgeois exploitation, very sharp …
The next question, of whether we are a political party is ideologically and greasing the functionalist play fair idea of social division of labor based on the promise of social mobility once the competitive meritocracy on equal educational opportunities, the answer seems that it is, exactly. If we look at some of the manifestations of their leader and companions, they go down that road: they and themselves, to their opposition parties recognize that they are “boys” comprehensive youth training and university teachers and doctors in some cases. Come on, a new technocrats but the light … The idea of background, explicitly and implicitly, classism and new elitism that entails is a clear contradiction to the anti-caste discourse regarding the parties of the traditional elite Pablo Iglesias not He has tired of repeating to, curiously, the same questions of the system. Which helps to lubricate a capitalist system whose only democratic safeguards seems to be still the fact of extending the belief and hope that the training at any level depends individually overcoming the crisis, of misery, of the new crisis, and so gradually, hegemonic …
be part of the newly elected assembly of CAN, after the vote by Internet “asamblearia” way, 73 people of which half are men and half women without means-what that parity, gender equality, or the critique of patriarchy are guaranteed as a social, cultural and political moviento given class ideology that is present in all sexes, these 73 people, more than half, much of the half are related to qualified college and belonging to academic training or teaching staff of the capitalist system to other levels of education professions. Anecdotal is the presence of a student with or without a scholarship to support it. Social draw-disqualified persons, including workers ‘manual’, are not present among such and such representatives of the masses or workers who are supposed to concern as a democratic political party: the masses who do not have full participation in the institutions and those who Traditional policies designed and implemented by caste, do not account for lack of sensitivity or social distinction ideological class struggle. It is possible that in the long or short term, they also shout these and these leaders “do not represent us.” In any case, we do not know if CAN has been studied that access to the “new” technologies in which channels its innovative participatory nature, does not guarantee much more than what it is, because there are social sectors that do not have no knowledge a computer, they can not pay the electric bill, and it does not mean that their proposals are not valid as representatives. Now, from the perspective of Gramsci construction committed to the intellectual and moral elevation of the lower classes intellectuals, we should also see how much of turncoat class between such representatives, to those who may have proletarian social background, but also a flight of such commitments. Forging organic intellectual is not, in any case, that will be designed to close with counter-hegemonic interests of the subordinate classes, despite having a remote address racism, xenophobia, sexism and inequality. Which is a matter of positions in the class struggle
Another question again, then we have to ask ourselves. What social sectors and sociological characteristics which have or can guess at the base of people who voted both to CAN as they have come to join them in voting intentions? This is an essential question, perhaps the most essential, because the knowledge of who support them, it will emerge the real political discourse of CAN and political action from foster institutions. If we are talking about a majority of affluent middle class, formed, restless, somewhat rebellious, but something bourgeois, no doubt we’ll be talking and reaffirming the idea that we can, as much as its leaders expose a seemingly radical discourse are there to act as a kind of Jiminy Cricket: cleanse the conscience of a social class that knowing wealthy and close to reactionary attitudes, still refuses to recognize its existence is in that course and are not interested move, although mouth out, looks good and very progressive, to keep friends up on the red hell, continue to have contacts with the enemy to leave the trench.
bastion of CAN it has actually been broadcast by a private television channel LaSexta name linked channels of the same group as the Four, and many of the social gatherings and systematically disseminated every week, have shown an ease to get to dialogue with organic intellectuals of the capitalist system, rather accelerated. Having said that
After this test or analysis is required to position and take some conclusions except those for obvious oversight, given the mounted film and clap to attend such speeches, the truth is that only time will be needed to return to his disenchantment channel and the system will finally re-do blaspheme who thought they could and then saw that a few of them are served exclusively to them and do the dirty game the system, which itself is the one that has been reproduced thanks to this movie of heroes and villains, revolutions wet paper, and so it is perhaps
anecdotal, but not to leave without analyzing some data points on which we can draw to support a more objective analysis and increasingly deep and broad rigorously, CAN say that there seems to be exvotantes Popular Party. Exvotantes the Popular Party were perhaps before exvotantes United Left. Which means that in reality, this is a sector electoral masses, which has bourgeois tendencies and labor trends, but the first shooting.
Such uncertainty, it appears that the conservative mentality of CAN will you let off the hook and disempowered in this game to the first change or that they twist things, or that the speech could radicalize. Which means that CAN is doomed to never being able to go to the root of matters dialectic. That what he said Pablo Iglesias so far has raised interest or emotion, rather than the uniqueness of its rhetoric, it may be due to brain-the politics of formal democracy, without dialectic or criticism spread by intellectuals media reaching the masses, we had been accustomed from the constitutional agreements, where the legalization of the PCE was the most revolutionary thing there was, with the help of a Santiago Carrillo whose figure was demolished by Franco as a demon. And with that, everything essentially no moderate left, except the reformist PSOE seventies and eighties, of course.
Lo said, perhaps already shows that short or long term, perhaps CAN has already denied her supueta very essence of being and existence: no power, no we can, because there will be back to, because there is no fondness for power, because they will always have that barrier to more progressive ideas. At least enntre the masses who so far have been identified with this expressive and instrumental formal policy proposal “alternative”.
His proposals, however much that translate on paper, nor his voters will accept once you think the first, the second or the third. They are a social class, it appears, conservative, equally unsupportive, which is the same to not be entirely supportive. Individualistic and fascists as much as those who CAN called caste. Find a handful of councilors who imitate the charismatic Pablo Iglesias and repeat and cacareen chatter and the chorus of his speech, it is possible, but finding a hundred thousand, it is impossible. The contradictions between what they should say and what to say when expressed in interviews or public events such revolutionary “eminent” … of CAN, will give rise to jokes and laughter, but the trouble is that not going to blush. Because what is at issue is sit, charge and if I told you, or remember … To say otherwise apparent that the opposition will have for a couple of months the political menu designed. Then there will not be easy to justify their presence without having wielded a machine gun or real dialectic …
CAN cale is logical that among a section of the working masses with an interest in the policy, the accumulated anger and indifference because no it can be quite efficient if no basic training for dialectics. Masses or the masses, who may have fluctuated in the orbit of leftist parties, including left-left sector, but social transformation CAN says it wants to bring to society, it is not a revolt of conscience, nor will awaken class consciousness that for years capitalism was responsible for cleaning the proletariat.
In fact, CAN, the term or terms of analysis disuse outdated, but valid, as proletariat dictatorship of the proletariat, class struggle , social class, exploitation, alienation, communism, socialism, eliminating private property, socialization of the means of production … are absolutely taboo concepts. They are replaced by warmer terms: defense of the public, participatory democracy, nationalization, minimum for all income bearable and drugged inequality … But big questions as overthrow capitalism, abolish the monarchy, to license the communities for their rights self-determination and independence or a referendum to leave NATO because there was a millionaire absolute rejection among the masses to participate in the US attack Iraq, are big words that those who aspire to power as aspire WE know that we must make it a last shot, and if necessary, leave them to rot in hell as proposals from oblivion. Only after its formal proclamation as a leader of the board meeting, it was that Pablo Iglesias said something about his interest in “a patriot of Spain, not wanting US military” in the territory of their nation. Little more was said that referred to the presence of colonies still like the islands of the Canary Islands, Ceuta or Melilla where his Spanish military exercise dominance. Besides proposing very little about an issue that seems to mobilize such a mass movement: pacifism and cut better the budget for all of the weapons and the military. In this case, the new leader of the PSOE, Pedro Sanchez, with his proposal to cut or eliminate 150,000 positions in the ministry of defense seems to have found something more political alternative. Unless you are talking about new military pensions, as acontecidas after the course Tejero coup in 1981 that famous 23F, I draw the salvapatrias figua the monarch, and devoured the statist political over democratic state, which was Adolfo Suarez, in what was after so long dictatorship to democracy childbirth as anorexic or thin creature …
That is, a power we can also blind them. Anlizar must not only what is, but because it is their existence. Because such questions we ask, really, to propose them, or cope proposed ever had done that were not where they are. WE are the goals of others. And the main one is the social transformation, is simply the use and abuse which is worse and sadder of discontent for four pesetas hard sell. And above are presented as victims: “They say we are the wolf”, etc. when in fact they know that such criticism They are very large. Perhaps it is typical libel reviews have always heard that they make from conservative views who ever had at hand, and have always been rebellious and disobedient. Wanting to be like them, and envy, always they wanted this criticism, perhaps because they thought that if they received, and that turned them into radical ones. As a distinct and affordable product … but really they are not radical, but they like to treat them well. Because it knows that stand as the radicals who would actually be, and to cover the free radicals, they ningunean make them disappear and vanish in the grave. Or so they think, apparently … That’s what I always want who admires something, but can not find how to imitate him. Maybe the destruction
with CAN, which seems an alternative that breaks to transform all the old, we are attending the new obstruction again all really new breath, and perpetuate everything old, with a varnish again, is here to stay seventy years or eighty. When Franco said he left all bound and tied, it also included a thought about these possibilities: the knot should also include CAN, but the knot remains a knot, make that clear. The tie is still not trigger. Perhaps instead of “open the lock of the 1978 constitution,” Pablo Iglesias had to use another metaphor:. Put the padlock, and write another absolutely democratic
Be what quantities of votes are CAN scope and reach such votes for whatever scope in terms of power and government, it will transform society, clean selfishness, exalting solidarity, empathy, high ideals and the intellectual and moral advancement of civilization that planetary region? It is going to be no. At most, have the effect of what psychotherapeutic profesinal: channeling anger after years of frustration, also a materialist frustration that has to do with those who have lost their jobs, wages and access to goods and services, walls mortgaged, vacation on the coast, or the frustration of those who longed more and more, and not accumulate and hoard amounted to much, etc. Those who have other ideals, and no material goods that discourage or frustrate us, we do not need such circles to anger vomiting or group therapy
In short:. As well as put us shoehorn the supertransición from dictatorship to … a democracy with a monarch who only have to see in intimate sex tapes with Carmen Polo … Now pretend we sell the bike with no tailpipe, but it works to blows, the transition from one-two-party system at the with the possibility of bipartisanship alternative to the fake CAN system, which end up being part of the system, and marrying -after constitutional engagement with the ugly cousin in order to satisfy their desire to put it … And make your cartoon …
For other more theoretical and practical issues, the spokesman CAN been said and sentenced some sentences to the story that says much about what they really are: the question of what you think the political system in Cuba, responded peteneras something unworthy of a professor in political science “in Cuba would require that there was a greater freedom of political parties.” Such a defense, is very soon exact the yankee discourse is justified more than half a century of blockade of Cuba simply for being a socialist system destroyed capitalism and colonialism. Is that what is expected of Pablo Iglesias, someone supposedly Democrat also said he would like to end capitalism, when in fact what it does is encourage in its imperialist stage?
Another opportunity, the riff raff with the Marquise Madrid Esperanza Aguirre, compared to Pablo Iglesias delivered his condemnation of the violence of ETA, he soon resolved until the leader of CAN ended up saying yes, condemning such violence, when previously it is certain that during a seminar devoted to these affairs and held in the Basque Country, the same Pablo Iglesias seemed to bet on a historical and political vision that contextualize and bring dialogue to the opposite, ie ETA separatists and the government of Spain. Another example of moderation and conservative drift of Pablo Iglesias? Possibly, because we see that is not the only, and may make them more the prosiguientes.
Remains to be asked what he thinks someone CAN Comrade Stalin. The electoralísticos calculations know that clearly demarcate the answer: they say it was a bloodthirsty or we will at hills of Ubeda, or down the street Melancholy … The downside of this is not that just say it for electoralísticos calculations, but it is also what They think, for ideological and class criteria instrínseco defect formation. Because like 15M I found a Menshevik movement far removed from the May 68 French, WE CAN gives all the evidence that has been raised on piles of mud precisely for this reason: they are not revolutionary Bolsheviks, are counterrevolutionaries Mensheviks, and time will it will be showing at the eyes … And more red and red … I remember that the Mensheviks were the social democratic wing of politics red revolution time. And Lenin’s Bolsheviks were clear:. With the Mensheviks revolution would not be possible to do it, because basically they were and represented the bourgeoisie, to power, rising capitalism
WE should not make us ignore that if both You can criticize the traditional political class, it is because CAN is an intellectual caste of university teachers from the same political caste has led with or without fondness.
The strange thing is not that we CAN generate surprise at his irruption . But even still after all that has happened, still it generates surprise: in 1936 there was a Spanish republican government legitimized by the polls that was overthrown by the tripartite of a nacionalcatólico coup by name Franco and name “Leader” with the support of two megalomaniacs schizoid, Mussolini and Hitler.
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