Hurra, ein Revolutiönchen (op-ed for The European)
As I said some days before, and later than expected (went public on the 19th but I was not able to put it here until now), here is my op-ed on the so called Spanish Revolution, published at The European (and in German): Hurra, ein Revolutiönchen.
It is a great honor to appear in Germany’s first opinion-based online magazine and, hopefully (for me!) this is just the first one.
As the reader will already know, I’ve been a bit critic with all the Spanish Revolution process (I’m finishing the translation of my micro-essay into english), and the article for The European was no less. Here is a little excerpt (in english):
The camps stayed, and campers differed a little bit of what it was the original idea. The DRY movement is mostly conformed of what it was, three or four years ago, the upper-middle class youth, by their late 20s up to mid 30s, with plenty of university titles, being “the most prepared generation”. But, after the housing bubble, we could speak of the ‘grade’ bubble…
Some of them, as it can be seen in videos all over the Internet, prefer put themselves within the ‘working class’: anti-market / anti-capitalist, fists-in-the-air, “grass-roots” (h)activists, wearing dyed Palestinian kuffiyas, which makes them usually to be treated as pure aesthetic posers.
People who took the streets were mostly ‘gathered’ by DRY, although they also came from different social sectors, upset with the political situation, the housing bubble, the rampant bipartisanship -with currently indicted candidates under trial for corruption running again- and an unemployment rate of 20% (40% in youth). But (not)surprisingly, some of the choruses within the camps, specially these recent days, were “Hands up, this is a contract!”.
To read the full article, visit The European magazine: Hurra, ein Revolutiönchen
