The two shores of Anguita and those of Podemos | Opinion

There were two shores, said Julio Anguita. One, neoliberalism; The other, his enemies. In the second was left united and the PSOE could be, if he honored its acronym; But these, inheritance of a time when the centenary party had made revolutions, should not be safe for an automatic pact. The agreement should be able to occur or not, and rely on firm programmatic commitments if it was given. IU had to lose the fear of being accused of responsible for governing the right.and make « clamp » with the PP—, if it did not. The factual collusion between the PP of Aznar and the PSOE of González, rival theorists, but agents of neoliberalization alike, was not a clamp, but a tendal, a clothesline full of them, the anguitistas in Asturias replied humorously.

The fate of this strategy was disparate. He propelled IU to record results, but also caused internal tensions and even a split: new left, which would end up integrating into the PSOE. And the good results dissolved after 1996. Anguita resigned in 2000 And then an IU came that recovered the good harmony with the Socialist Party, which had it greater than ever, in fact; A PSOE that, for the rest, was no longer restart, Roldán and Intxaurrondo, but gay marriage and historical memory law. But the story kept running and the 2008 crisis arrived, the cuts and finally on 15-M and Podemos, with a new equalization speech of the two halves of bipartisanship. This reimpulsed The public presence of an eague eaguita, venerated by its austere and moral rocky And also as the Casandra who, in the thanwater drunkenness of the nineties, in the middle of the debris of the Berlin wall, had been the etching that had made a series of ignored warnings, now fulfilled, and had drawn a path.

After his death, in 2020, devotion intensified, free from the ballast of the possibility that Anguita, who disintegrated, disintegrate from her and who used it to legitimize, and tried to drown her. With Pablo Iglesias they ensure their relatives that ended up disappointed; But, dead, he could no longer express him or stir against his enthronement as the absent of purple formation, his legitimizing myth. Before each new dilemma, after each new turn, the question of What Would Anguita doand it is answered that exactly what has been decided to do.

We can today promote a new discourse of two shores, not only with neoliberalism, but with war as dividing. « Belicism » on one shore and on the other peace, invoked in the same generic way; We can like its only swimmer, who arches and puts the hands from her and takes them to the mouth to invite you to join those who her group of friends has dragged to immerse himself in the opposite banks, but they have not just been comfortable. « Julio Anguita asked us many times that we thought on the two shores. Today those two shores are war and peace, » explains Irene Montero, and the objective is evident: United Left, convince her of abandoning adding – in death to the already very decayed platform – and fattening a candidacy led by the Montero/Belarra tandem. It is not unlikely that they get it, because in IU there are few people who do not distrust Podemos, or The one that does not irritate their desales – such as plastering a tribute to Anguita-, but there are even less to the one that does not frighten to see the neck hung by the neck that the purple lavish: « otanist » and traitor to the memory of Anguita. IU was born against NATO: nothing more identity, nothing less debatable; The coalition has always had many « worlds », Marxist or Christian socialists, federal or centralists, governors or movementists; He has had even Carlists, but the fan’s nail was the rejection of the Atlantic Alliance.

Spain and the world of 2025 are very different from those of 1996, those who reject these exhortations replicate. The right that anguitismo was willing to do not care to govern was the Aznar from « Journey to the Center », which praised Azaña: The privilege of knowing which Aznar would come later only. The right to which today can catapult the intestine wars of the left cites Ramiro Ledesma, protects and restores fascist monuments, Palestinian genocide applaud And it is ally and exaltant of governments that prohibit the parades of pride or dynamite the welfare state. The PSOE government that was fought in the nineties was one with which it had even broken the UGT of Nicolás Redondo; The current, better or worse, is the last progressive island of Europe, and one of the few of « a planet with the shape of a slaughterhouse, or a slaughterhouse the size of a planet », as Jónatham F. Moriche sentence in The collapse years. We are not stalking a doberman, but a dinosaur with behind.