Left-wing fronts and other hypotheses

Normality in the Spanish state goes through the hegemony of the ultra-nationalist right, whether it's called PP, whether it's called Vox, or whether it's called a magistracy and powers of the state handed over to the cause of sostenella y no enmendalla, the vivan las caenas and all this rich tradition. If the answer is Spain, then what is the question?Political projects that can question the hegemony of black, monolithic, and self-devouring Spain (see octopuses, which eat themselves; see Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son) always require majorities that are difficult to maintain due to their own internal composition. Catalan independence, to have any strength, needs to bring together all the different forms of democratic independence: center-right, center-left, anti-capitalist, etc. And even then, to add other sovereignist and Catalanist forces. What was interesting about the "Procés" were mainly two things: on the one hand, the fact that it emerged from the bottom up, starting from the demonstration on July 10, 2010. On the other hand, having achieved this sum of forces from such different political cultures, united in the common objective of a referendum on self-determination. Since it was not achieved, there was a moral of defeat that led to succumbing to all self-destructive temptations, and now to the most self-destructive of all, which is to incorporate a false far-right independence into the equation. But that's another story.Regarding the governance of Spain, avoiding the crushing power of the right-wing (“stopping the far-right,” as it's commonly put, and also the right-wing that claims not to be so extreme but easily reaches government agreements with it, and forgive the wordplay) is perhaps even more difficult. It necessarily involves bringing the Spanish left-wing parties together with the wrongly named Catalan and Basque nationalisms (who is truly nationalist, and with all the tools at their disposal, is the Spanish state), and even with other “peripheries” like Galicia, the Valencian Country, the Balearic Islands, etc. The “Spanish left-wing parties,” evidently include the PSOE and the catch-all category often simplified with the expression “to the left of the PSOE.” There are many elements that clash here, but the most decisive is the historical, and mutual, animosity between Catalanism and the Spanish left-wing parties. In recent years, there have been two attempts to overcome this animosity: Sumar (now Moviment Sumar), in low spirits as seen at its assembly last weekend, and Rufián's project, about which nothing concrete can be said because it hasn't even started yet. So, everything remains, for now, within the realm of hypotheses, mistrust, and (historical) grudges. Curiously, the Spanish right-wing and far-right do not have so many problems identifying their adversaries, nor in presenting them as enemies to be defeated, dehumanizing them if necessary. Indeed: they are all those who never agree among themselves.