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oh dear, how is it possible to actually agree with one of keating's screeds? it's possible because the piecemeal slide of Crimethinc into the same kind of idiotic activistism of IGD and the idiotic analysis of Jacobin has been horrible to watch, like a trainwreck in slow motion. it's possible because the kind of nationalism that Catalans have promoted over the past 100 years has been solidly entrenched with bourgeois ideals of mainstream leftist and rightist political sovereignty stemming from economic hegemony. it's possible because most of the rank and file workers in Catalonia are migrants, and have been for at least the last 100 years (which is why the official language of the CNT-FAI in Catalonia--where it was the majority working class formation--was Spanish, not Catalan); Catalan nationalists, like almost all other nationalists who aren't fighting outright colonialism, tend to be people in the professional classes and small business owners/entrepreneurs. it's possible because it's true that all nationalism is garbage. so how come this time keating is right? it's possible because, as the saying goes, a broken clock tells the right time twice a day (although for keating it's more like twice every 20 years).