The question of the moment is not today, in Spanish politics, the nationalist emergency – a paper tiger -, but the drift of the Socialist Party, which leads it, in my opinion, to move away from the sociological center, not so much because what about his social policies, which are generally moderate, but with regard to the national question. Is it a novelty or, on the contrary, is it the return to an old and sustained trend? A few days ago, the notary José Marqueño de Llano, an old office colleague, told me: “Don’t be fooled; the Socialist Party of Felipe González that we voted for so many years was a parenthesis, an exception to the trajectory of the PSOE. Before this stage and after, the PSOE has not been and is not a centre-left party, but has been and is, depending on the moment, radical or populist in its ideology and, above all, in its tone and attitude”.
Therefore, the real Socialist Party would not be that of González, but that of Pablo Iglesias Posse, Largo Caballero (not Besteiro), Zapatero and Sánchez. And this drift, as I have already said, is manifested today more in the territorial question than in the economic field. And so we have that:
1) The PSOE, despite being, unlike the PP, the Spanish party with a more homogenous implementation throughout the national territory, seems to believe that, under the name and image of Spain, they beat only an ancient institutional fabric, a reactionary ideological repertoire and a bargain of the most callous and sinister patriotism, that is to say, an instrument of domination with which “for centuries the right has been sitting on the State”, usufructuring the country – its “estate” – for profit own
2) The Socialist Party has not forgotten its defeat in the Civil War, and aspires to revenge through a biased interpretation of historical memory, today democratic memory.
On the basis of this double positioning, the PSOE guides its political action, starting with Zapatero, in a double direction:
1) The more or less covert review of the transition, which the PSOE at that time contributed so much to promoting. This takes the form of a questioning, more or less overlapping, of the Constitution and the monarchy.
2) The willingness of the pact with all those who oppose the regime of 78, be they populists, recycled communists (who was to say!, Don Indalecio) and, above all, separatists (that is, nationalists) of all kinds.
The cement with which this block is forged is the erosion of the idea of ??Spain for two reasons: a) To be – as I have already said – a structure of oppression at the service of the “owners of the estate”. b) For being “a prison of peoples”, which prevents the authentic nations (Catalonia, Euskadi, Navarre, Galicia and the others that emerge as a result of identity enthusiasm) from emancipating themselves to achieve consecration and fullness of its national being before the international community.
I could be wrong, but that’s how I see it. And I understand, therefore, that everything is given and blessed, since, in the face of the majority coalition of socialists, radical left and separatist Catalan and Basque rights (“We are more”, Pedro Sánchez dixit ), the rest of the Spaniards can do little except to denounce it, especially if “a wall” of discrimination and repudiation is erected against “the extreme right, the extreme right” and the like.
All told, we are in an agonizing trance, before which I do not allow myself a bad word, a bad gesture, or a bad attitude. I just want to show my deep and painful strangeness for a fact that I can’t understand: How is it possible that it is precisely the socialist militants and voters who are willing to make a clean slate of Spain, which today is not a framework of oppression, but an area of ??primary and immediate solidarity in which all Spaniards are equal? How is it possible that so many honest Spaniards, with right intentions and a spirit of solidarity, as are undoubtedly the vast majority of PSOE militants and voters, watch fearlessly at the destruction of their homeland? I respect these compatriots, but I don’t understand them.
