- The "Basque problem" is the "Spanish problem"
that we, the Basque suffer.
- Spain, something that gets smaller as the time goes by, "Spanish
problem" of the Spaniards.
- Wallerstein´s work and his concept of "European
world-economy", keys to understanding the "Spanish problem"
that we, the Basque suffer.
- The failure of the Spanish Empire in XVIth and XVIIth centuries.
- The fall of Spain to become a semiperipheral power.
- The new fall of Spain into the status of a peripheral area
during XIXth century.
- The last 150 years of class war in the Basque Country (1833-1983).
- The failed attempt to construct Spain as a unitary nation
from 1833 on.
- Abolishment of the Fueros and pillaging of Basque communal
ownership in order to turn our iron mining into the peripheral
supplier of the British Empire.
- Carlist wars and defeat of the Basque rural masses.
- 1876: an alien army defeats and destroys the Basque foral
State.
- 1876: the Spanish army changes the Basque dominant class.
Overthrows the local jauntxos and gives the power to the
Basque industrial and financial sepoy bourgeoisie.
- Businesses of Basque pro-Spain industrial and financial oligarchy:
Economic Concerts, mining, cargos and iron and steel industry.
- Industrialization, inmigration, urbanization: a mutation of
the Basque social structure.
- Mutation of Basque bourgeoisie and of its industrial and finantial
oligarchy into pro-Spain and into a piece of the Spanish dominant
class bloc.
- Two dialectic answers to the action of that oligarchy in the
last years of XIXth century: PSOE´s ingenuous cosmopilitism
and PNV´s ingenuous nationalism.
- 1936-1937: Basque pro-Spain industrial and financial oligarchy
contributes to financing Franco´s rebellion and, as in 1876,
manages to make Spanish army put it back in power of the Basque
social formation.
- Changes generated in the Basque social formation by 40 years
of Franco´s dictatorship and appearance of a new Basque nationalism
around ETA.
- Notes
"Problema español"/"problema vasco".
La economía-mundo según Wallerstein y los últimos
150 años de lucha de clases en Euskadi Sur. ("Spanish
problem"/"Basque problem". World-economy according
to Wallerstein and the last 150 years of class war in the Southern
Basque Country) reproduces the 44 pages text (pages 48-91) of
the book by Justo de la Cueva La escisión del PNV. EA,
HB, ETA y la deslegitimación del Estado español
en Euskadi Sur (PNV´s split. EA, HB, ETA and the discredit
of the Spanish State in the Southern Basque country), Txalaparta,
Bilbao, 1988.
Synthesis of eight years´research and investigation, these
44 pages constitute the outline of volumes 2 and 3 of the trilogy
Sangre, sudor y hierro 1833-1998. 165 años de lucha
de clases en Euskal Herria Sur (Blood, sweat and iron 1833-1998.
165 years of class war in the Southern Basque Country) that the
author has in preparation and first volume of which is already
published: Negación vasca radical del capitalismo mundial
(VOSA S.L. Publishers, Madrid, 1994). The complete text of the
book is in this website.
These 44 pages are organized in the following sections:
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