Thank you all for your posts and comments. I would just like to add a couple of observations.

On the significance of these manifestoes, my impression is that, in reality, they are inconsequential. I believe that one of the the fundamental errors that many intellectuals are making when it comes to the secession of Catalonia is to consider it a…[Read more]

Thank you Jennifer.

You are right, although My concern is that while the punitive bravado of the paragraph you mentioned may not be shared by the bulk of the population, the more subtle yuxtaposition of citizenship vs peripheral national identities can easily fly below the radar.

Thank you Aldolfo and Elisa for these two posts. I agree with Elisa in what she says about the Manifiesto. Indeed there are no surprises in their discourse, yet one remains baffled with statements like this one: “Reclamamos al Estado que aplique toda la ley y advierta con claridad de las consecuencias de violarla. Ninguna infracción debe quedar…[Read more]

Thank you, Elisa.

What I am most troubled about is that the FAES/Vargas Llosa manifesto suggests a separation between citizenship and national identity  that echoes the centralization of national identities that characterized the Enlightenment unproblematically.  There is an obvious attempt to co-opt any discourse of modernity that is not a…[Read more]

Here are the links:
1) Cotarelo presents Súmate

2) Un Pais normal

Elisa

Thank you, Adolfo, for bringing this important question to our forum.

In line with Adolfo’s latest links, I am posting other links that frame the question of the “Catalan Problem” from different perspectives both ideologically and also territorially.

The first “manifiesto” (the one prepared by Vargas Llosa and the FAES foundation and supported…[Read more]