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What are your thoughts on Catalan independence? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I personally am against it. I think that a future socialist Spain would be stronger if it was unified, and division would threaten that. I also don't think the arguments for seperation are that strong and the pro-independence movement is not just left wingers. I think like half of the movement are liberals, like Puigdemont.

But I'm not that well read in this topic so if you think otherwise I'm willing to listen

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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

So long as Spain is in the EU this whole thing is a moot point. Catalonia would not achieve independence, it would simply go from being a province of Spain to a satrapy of Brussels. Until and unless the Catalan independence movement is an explicitly anti-EU movement dedicated to taking the region out of the grip of the EU and NATO, nothing substantial would change.

So i don't care either way.

Now Scottish independence, that is something i do support. Breaking up the UK would be an unequivocally good thing regardless whether the movement doing it is left wing nationalist or right wing nationalist.

[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd also like to see a unified, independent Ireland.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That goes without saying. I don't think there is a single communist who doesn't.

[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

🙏🫡

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

JK Rowling also bankrolled the pro-unionist movement in Scotland because an independent Scotland would be too trans friendly.