[I know this is getting off-topic Mark. And I also know that you don't want the
mere mention of France, no need to remind me. :-)]
>If, as in your words, "most politicians" from across the
>spectrum were interested in curbing these practices, how
>come they've failed so dismally, to the point where we are
>contemplating planetary ruin and a disastrous crash?
They have suceeded in curbing "some of the worst practices" (your words).
Obviously this is not enough. But please stop the nonsense.
>The French one
>also perished under the jackboot of fascism, although not in
>quite the same way.
Not at all in fact. It perished under lack of will to stay on course (or rather under
the end of the fear of the capitalists and of their politicians who were so afraid
that voted paid holidays at 563 against 1 at the beginning of that government).
That left-wing government, after lagging behind the will of the people and after
having a truly disastrous foreign policy stopped the progress in its reforms in
the face of capitalist discontent. It ended in june 1937 after a treason by a
center party which was supporting it on the matter of a law over financial
regulations (like exchange controls). A kind of conciliatory government
followed, and then a virtually right-wing one.
There was a second short-lived left-wing government of "national union" after
Hitler's annexion of Austria. Again, it was again defeated over financial matters
by the parliament.
After that, the advances of 1936 were attacked by the reactionary government
who later signed the Munich agreement.
BTW, to John Buzl: This is a good example of a rich country wanting to
implement capital controls. They go hand in hand with reformist policies.
>There is no way that the coup of Franco was "motivated" by
>"foreign powers". That is just wrong. Period.
I said nothing so categoric, but anyway...
So you think that the people that have prepared the mutiny have not at least
probed Rome and Berlin for support first? According to Rocker (The tragedy
of Spain), General Sanjurjo paid a visit to Hitler and Mussolini before the
uprising. What about the conference in Valencia which happend after the
elections where nazis were supposedly involved (source: Willie Brandt)? And
what about this story that is supposedly in a book by the "Pasionaria" about
Franco coming back from the Canary Islands in a British plane with a British
officier who enabled him not to be stopped by the Republicans? Were there
not many foreign companies involved in exploiting Spain? Weren't Italy and to
a lesser extent Germany in critical need of Sapin's metals? Haven't the rebels
had immediate support from Portugal and Italy?
Besides, if for you the "coup" is not only the 17-19th of July as it seemed in
your first post on this thread (you implied that the coup was victorious while the
actual coup was a failure despite the lack of reaction of the government to the
preparation of the coup), then foreign powers obviously played a decisive
role. How would Franco have set foot in Spain proper without them? The airlift
began the 27th of July. It looks quite quick to me (don't forget that the need for
the airlift was not in the plans of the mutiny but was created when the rebel
navy officiers were not obeyed by their men).
>It was a
>crisis of the Spanish ruling class and, at a deeper
>structural level, the fact of incomplete transition of Spain
>to capitalism at the time (note the appeal of anarchism
>amongst the large peasantry, which very closely parallels
>the situation in Russia some twenty years earlier).
And I have been told that I was guilty of "economicism"...
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