{"id":26520,"date":"2017-10-06T06:33:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T11:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26520"},"modified":"2017-10-06T06:33:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T11:33:25","slug":"the-catalan-chain-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26520","title":{"rendered":"The Catalan Chain Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Catalan Chain Reaction<\/h3>\n
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Catalonia\u2019s drive for \u201cindependence\u201d has unleashed a chain reaction of viral social media support that\u2019s frighteningly resurrected civil war-era rhetoric, but the most dangerous consequences of this domino effect are yet to come if the separatists are ultimately successful in their quest. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Catalans<\/a><\/p>\n

The Nostalgia Narrative<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

The Catalan \u201cindependence\u201d cause<\/a> has taken the world by storm, thrown into the global spotlight by the heavily publicized referendum earlier this week and Madrid\u2019s forceful response to this unconstitutional measure. Supporters all across the world have been energized by the recent events and have taken to describing them in civil war-era terms as a battle between \u201cdemocracy\u201d and \u201cfascism\u201d. Furthermore, they also accuse the Rajoy government of being \u201cFrancoists\u201d, as they do the country\u2019s post-Franco 1978 Constitution which returned Catalonia\u2019s autonomy in an even more robust way than before and even bestowed this privilege to the rest of the country as well.<\/p>\n

Although it can be safely presumed that Spain naturally retained some of the \u201cFrancoist\u201d members of its permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (\u201cdeep state\u201d) after the death of their movement\u2019s eponymous leader, it\u2019s an exaggeration to refer to the constitution and the present government as \u201cFrancoists\u201d in the sense of what the term stereotypically implies. Rather, the improper use of such polarizing civil war-era terms demonstrates that the separatists are trying to capitalize on the revolutionary nostalgia that their domestic and foreign supporters have for reliving the 1936-1939 anarcho-communist experiment via a simulacrum, one which plays out differently depending on their audience.<\/p>\n

Two Simulacra <\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

As it relates to the Catalans themselves, this is meant to force them into the false binary choice between \u201cstanding with their ancestors against fascism\u201d or \u201cbetraying their motherland for the Francoists\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The Catalan Chain Reaction Catalonia\u2019s drive for \u201cindependence\u201d has unleashed a chain reaction of viral social media support that\u2019s frighteningly resurrected civil war-era rhetoric, but the most dangerous consequences of this domino effect are yet to come if the separatists are ultimately successful in their quest. The Nostalgia Narrative The Catalan \u201cindependence\u201d cause has taken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[6108,117,281,284,968,16011,9099,16326],"class_list":["post-26520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-andrew-korybko","tag-catalonia","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-independence","tag-oriental-review","tag-secession","tag-separatists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26521,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26520\/revisions\/26521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}