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This will be THE test to the theses on "universal jurisdiction". I would bet that while it is perfectly acceptable that European courts try Chilean or Argentinean Thugs, it will hardly be accepted that an Arg Court tries Spanish thugs. Let us wait and see... BTW: the Spanish Civil War left in Arg a deeper trace than elsewhere, due to a host of reasons. Four of these: a) recent migration from Spain and Italy of _both_ philo-Fascists and Left wingers b) absolute indifference of the masses towards local politics, hijacked by professional politicians in the service of the British Empire during the 1930s c) strong influence of the Left (with or without inverted commmas) on the consciousness of the middle classes, a form of cultural alienation d) worship of the local right wing Catholic Nationalists for the Francoite side All this, cast in the general "Eurocentric" consciousness of the middle classes in the large towns and areas of the Pampa region where foreign (mainly Italian) migrants had managed to establish a solid agrarian middle class. It is most revealing to show that one of the most progressive politicians of the time, Amadeo Sabattini, was a "neutralist" (a reasonably national-bourgeois position) in the conflict while at the same time he was socially progressive, thoroughly democratic and very popular. In fact, one of the reasons for this strange mixture was that a good deal of his own social base of voters were children of the recent Italian migration to Argentina, who kept some lovingly feelings towards "Italy" -which by those times was Fascist Italy! Thus, Sabattini had to both play games towards the global "democratic" camp (he was even married to a Communist Party member) and towards the global "totalitarian" camp (by way of "neutralism"). 2010/4/18 Greg McDonald <gregm...@gmail.com>: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/04/14/world/AP-LT-Argentina-Spain-Human-Rights.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss > > Argentines Try Probing Crimes of Franco's Spain > By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS > Published: April 14, 2010 -- Néstor Gorojovsky El texto principal de este correo puede no ser de mi autoría ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
