Publié à l’origine en espagnol: “Atrapados entre la acción y la reacción” Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres. Rajoy n’est pas une machine à fabriquer des séparatistes, mais son silence est en train de créer un vide qui se remplie avec une propagande nationaliste professionnelle, victimiste et à vocation hégémonique. Le gouvernement de Rajoy a mis du […]
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The Rhetoric Path to Independence
Originally published in Spanish. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres As always happens with the process, nothing is a big deal, until the adversary reacts. Mr Puigdemont’s speech in the Catalan Parliament the October 10th, where he declared Catalonia’s independence only to put it on hold, and the subsequent clandestine signing of secession in a Parliament’s room […]
La Catalogna plurale
Originale: “Cataluña Plural”. Ricardo Dudda. El País Nel 1965, El Noticiero Universal di Barcelona commissionò quindici articoli sulla Catalogna al filosofo Julián Marías, che diventarono il libro Consideración de Cataluña. Marías realizza un’ammirabile esercizio nel franchismo: vedere Spagna dalla Catalogna. Osserva che la Catalogna si sente lontana da Madrid o da Castiglia (come se tutti […]
Plural Catalonia
Published originally in Spanish. Ricardo Dudda. El País. In 1965, the Barcelonian newspaper El Noticiero Universal commissioned fifteen articles from the philosopher Julian Marías on Catalonia, which became a book called Consideration of Catalonia. Marías does a remarkable exercise in Francoism: seeing Spain from Catalonia. He observes that Catalonia feel distanced from Madrid, or Castile […]
Chonicle of the 1st of October – the revolution of the middle class
Published originally in Spanish. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres. In the Pere Vila school, on the Paseo de Lluís Companys in Barcelona, several young people are watching a garden fence. With the sun just up, it starts to rain. The only people on the street are immigrant workers opening shops. There’s the grafitti left from past […]
Tarda’s youth
Published originally in Spanish. Ricardo Dudda. El País. On September 22, Esquerra Republicana MP Joan Tardà gave a speech to students of the University of Barcelona. He said: «We have the commitment to give birth to the [Catalan] Republic, but it is you who will lead it. And if you do not, you will commit […]
The expressive vote for independence
Published originally in Spanish. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres. For many supporters of Catalan independence, the illegal referendum on October 1 is an act of democracy because it consists in putting a ballot into a ballot box. One of the most frequent errors of the Catalan independence movement is equating voting with democracy. The October 1 […]
Le vote expressif pour l’indépendance
Publié à l’origine en espagnol. Ricardo Dudda. Letras Libres. Pour de nombreux indépendantistes catalans, le référendum illégal du 1er octobre est un acte démocratique car il consiste à introduire un bulletin dans une urne. L’une des erreurs les plus fréquentes de l’indépendantisme catalan est d’assimiler le vote à la démocratie. Le vote du 1er octobre […]