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José María Carrascal: Blackmailers


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Marx’s big mistake was predicting that capitalism would collapse only because of its internal contradictions. Already that approach contains a naivety that a philosopher of history, a disciple of Hegel, as Don Carlos presumed, cannot allow himself. If the capitalist system, successor to feudalism, was going to collapse on its own, what was the revolution, the dictatorship of the proletariat, storming the sky and all the paraphernalia surrounding Marxism needed for? It was the first hurdle encountered by the Soviet communists when they assumed power after the collapse of tsarist Russia, still feudal, not ripe for the proletarian revolution as it did not have the bourgeois revolution, according to another of the dogmas of

Marx. What to do, wait for capitalism to fall prey to its internal contradictions or jump into the proletarian revolution and we’ll see what happens? It was the great topic of debate in that defeated and disoriented Russia, which, on the one hand, saw the opportunity to carry out the changes that had taken place in Western Europe since the French Revolution, with notable advances especially in England, Germany, the Benelux and Scandinavia. There are those who reduce it to the struggle between Lenin and Stalin and even attribute the health problems that the former had during his last years of his life to that pulse, which the latter ended up winning, a supporter of stopping beating around the bush and taking the leap now. Sebastian Haffner is a supporter of this thesis, although what emerged from it was neither Marxism nor Leninism, its official name, but Stalinism pure and simple.

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I have remembered this episode before the struggle between the PSOE and Podemos, something nothing new, since communists and socialists, especially after they became social democrats, have become deadly enemies. Literally. In our case, things are complicated by the inclusion of the nationalists, who seek secession, something that, in theory, collides with the objectives of both leftist forces. In the midst of all of them, Pedro Sánchez, like a juggler, tries to please everyone, keeping plates or balls in the air. In other words, when you hear about the divisions on the right, remember that the left is even more divided and do not be surprised to see Sánchez courting Ciudadanos, given that ERC asks for what it cannot give. Of course, that makes him suspicious of the PNV, which he also needs.

Nobody knows how this will end, since the division of the right also supposes a serious cost. Which brings us to a situation that would be comical if nothing more and nothing less than Spain were at stake: The greatest danger for Sánchez and Casado today comes from the left and right respectively. Some say that everyone plays blackmail. But blackmail usually ends badly for the two blackmailers. And here are more than a dozen.

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