Colbert
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« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2012, 07:17:19 PM » |
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I wrote something about the last election in Quebec on my blog. Because it was wrote in french, I use here google traduct for give you the english version. I hope the translation would not being awful.
the failure of left nationalism in Quebec
"We were defeated by money and the ethnic vote" said Jacques Parizeau on the evening of the tragedy (for him) of October 1995, when Quebec try once again to commit suicide.
But those suicides were not urprising. In response to the stifling Catholic conservatism, but timidly Quebecist, of the reign of the National Union of Duplessis, a logic swing of the pendulum, the young nationalism of the 60' has built on the left, time or ,naively, the independence movements were often associated with Marxist guerrillas in Latin America (Guevara, Castro, etc.)..
Of course, this nationalism was a tactic for Marxists, but the moderate left Quebec have believed on it, like René Lévesque. Vision, all Habermasian, of constitutional nationalism, which is the embodiment of purest, most honest, Republican nationalism, absolutely detached from the history, land and people, could only find the PQ impotent, ideologically to reject immigration, the very one that will ensure the defeat of an independent Quebec in 1995, arithmetically speaking.
Therefore the failure of the Bloc Québécois in the federal election makes sense. AS voting for the left, Quebecers voted for more frank than the BQ / PQ, namely for Jack Layton's NDP.
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