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This article is typical Stupidthinc from Crimethinc. Catalan nationalism is a fundamentally right-wing phenomenon. The proletariat of Catalonia traditionally weren't even Catalan, in olden days they mostly came from Andalusia. Nowdays, as everywhere, they come from everywhere -- and they gain nothing from an independent Catalonia. The Catalan exploiter class having their own state completely independent of Madrid is all about the most prosperous part of Spain saying, in typical yuppie sociopath style to the rest of Spain, I've got mine -- all the rest of you can go to hell. The Catalan bourgeoisie having their own state won't benefit all those South Asian families that run all those little shops you see all over Barcelona. Besides, today barely 50% of people at large in Catalonia want the exploiter class to cleave away from Spain.

"Uncharted territory" my ass. This stuff happens pretty frequently in Barcelona; it doesn't mean some kind of new widespread social revolt phenomenon is about to jump off.

I was at three nights of the four nights or rioting in Sants at the time of the attempted eviction of the Can Vies squat, near Placa de Sants, in the last week of May 2014. It was striking that on an inside courtyard wall of the squat there were four spray-painted graffiti logos in equal position: The lighting bolt squatter one, a circle-A, the despicable Catalan flag -- and the hammer and sickle of the pro-capitalist Stalinist counter-revolution in Catalonia in '36 to '37, which the anarchist movement of those days surrendered to without credible resistance. All those Catalan flags hanging from apartment balconies all over Barcelona look like the soiled diapers of an infant with bloody diarrhea and Vitamin B in its piss. Catalan nationalism is garbage -- as is all nationalism.