{"id":664,"date":"2011-05-22T04:06:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T03:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/?p=664"},"modified":"2014-05-26T20:20:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T19:20:14","slug":"spain%e2%80%99s-socialist-utopia-mugged-by-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2011\/05\/22\/spain%e2%80%99s-socialist-utopia-mugged-by-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain&#8217;s Socialist Utopia Mugged by Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spain-madrid-protests-may-2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5628\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spain-madrid-protests-may-2011.jpg\" alt=\"spain madrid protests may 2011\" width=\"644\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spain-madrid-protests-may-2011.jpg 644w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spain-madrid-protests-may-2011-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Throngs of Spanish youth have gathered in more than 50 cities across Spain to protest skyrocketing unemployment, cutbacks to social welfare benefits and rampant corruption among Spain\u2019s political elite.<\/em> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spain&#8217;s Socialist Utopia Mugged by Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a title=\"Spain's Socialist Utopia Mugged by Reality\" href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/blog\/spains-socialist-utopia-mugged-by-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\">PJ Media<\/a> | May 22, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Throngs of Spanish youth have gathered in more than 50 cities across Spain to protest skyrocketing unemployment, cutbacks to social welfare benefits and rampant corruption among Spain\u2019s political elite. The massive but mostly peaceful protests (photo galleries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpais.com\/fotogaleria\/Concentracion\/movimiento\/15m\/Madrid\/elpgal\/20110516elpepunac_2\/Zes\/4\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.20minutos.es\/galeria\/7458\/0\/10\/manifestacion-en-madrid\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.20minutos.es\/galeria\/7473\/0\/39\/sol-como-campamento\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.es\/fotos-espana\/20110519\/indignados-toman-puerta-77425.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) by disaffected youth represent the first significant manifestations of social unrest since a decades-long housing bubble burst in late 2007 and <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/how-postmodern-socialism-destroyed-spain\/\" target=\"_blank\">plunged the Spanish economy into a deep and prolonged recession<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The self-styled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Movimiento-15M\/211669055522959\" target=\"_blank\">May 15th Movement<\/a> took to the streets of Spanish cities on Sunday, May 15 to demand &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elmundo.es\/especiales\/2011\/15m\/\" target=\"_blank\">real democracy now<\/a>&#8221; and a new economic policy ahead of municipal and regional elections on May 22. United by anger over a youth jobless rate that is hovering at around 45 percent &#8212; and the inability of a largely inept political class to do anything about it &#8212; the May 15th Movement is a conglomeration of several smaller protest groups, including <a href=\"http:\/\/democraciarealya.es\/\" target=\"_blank\">Democracia Real Ya!<\/a> (Real Democracy Now!) and <a href=\"http:\/\/tomalaplaza.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toma La Plaza<\/a> (Take the Square).<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish protesters have been inspired by the pro-democracy movements in the Arab world, and are using social media networks to coordinate the demonstrations. (One of Twitter\u2019s most popular conversation topics in recent days has been the hashtag <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/search\/%2315m\" target=\"_blank\">#15m<\/a>, or May 15, which marks the start of the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/search\/%23SpanishRevolution\" target=\"_blank\">#SpanishRevolution<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The largest protests have been in Madrid, where tens of thousands of demonstrators have converged on the city\u2019s emblematic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puerta_del_Sol\" target=\"_blank\">Puerta del Sol<\/a> square (which protesters have renamed \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elplural.com\/politica\/plaza-solucion-un-espacio-abierto-al-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Plaza SOLuci\u00f3n<\/a>\u201d). Similar protests are under way in other major Spanish cities, including Barcelona, Bilbao, Granada, Palma de Mallorca, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia, Vigo and Zaragoza. The protestors have vowed to remain mobilized at least through the May 22 elections, <a href=\"http:\/\/politica.elpais.com\/politica\/2011\/05\/16\/actualidad\/1305579962_497160.html\" target=\"_blank\">in defiance of a ban<\/a> that Spanish authorities have placed on the demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cadenaser.com\/espana\/articulo\/desalojadocampamentopuertasol\/csrcsrpor\/20110517csrcsrnac_1\/Tes\" target=\"_blank\">forcibly evicting some 150 protesters from the square in Madrid<\/a> on May 17, police changed their approach and have mostly stood by as the activists vowed to resist peacefully if authorities make any further attempts to dislodge them. A spokesperson for the May 15th Movement has described the protests as a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.es\/agencias\/noticia.asp?noticia=820486\" target=\"_blank\">peace encampment<\/a>\u201d while youth have been chanting famous slogans of resistance that date back to Spain\u2019s 1936-1939 civil war, when General Francisco Franco laid siege to Madrid. Protesters have also circulated flyers citing a provision of Spain\u2019s post-Franco constitution that gives citizens the right to protest without prior authorization.<\/p>\n<p>Up until now, anti-government protests in Spain have been relatively few and far between, partly because of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elconfidencial.com\/sociedad\/2011\/espanoles-sufren-silencio-20110416-77551.html\" target=\"_blank\">strong ties that labour unions have with the ruling Socialists<\/a>. But Spain\u2019s nascent youth democracy movement is a spontaneous grassroots groundswell that is not left versus right but rather young versus old. The youth movement is highly inclusive and its members &#8212; who represent all of Spain\u2019s socio-economic classes &#8212; have expressed disgust with both the governing Socialists and the main opposition conservative Popular Party. A ubiquitous protest slogan has been: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/m24digital.com\/2011\/05\/19\/espana-%E2%80%9C%C2%A1psoe-pp-la-misma-mier-es%E2%80%9D-ver-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">PSOE y PP, la misma mierda es<\/a>,\u201d which loosely translated means \u201cSocialists and Conservatives, they are the same crap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The protesters do have a point. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/charlemagne\/2009\/03\/why_is_spain_so_corrupt\" target=\"_blank\">corruption in Spain is endemic<\/a> and politicians from both major parties have been implicated in scandals in all of Spain\u2019s 48 provinces. The Justice Ministry currently is investigating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.20minutos.es\/noticia\/569161\/0\/investigaciones\/politicos\/corrupcion\/\" target=\"_blank\">more than 700 cases of high-level corruption<\/a>, including 264 cases involving Socialists, 200 involving Conservatives and hundreds more involving smaller regional parties.<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s ailing economy too is a symptom of much broader problem, including the inability of the social welfare economic model to create jobs, as well as a highly paternalistic labor market that benefits an older generation seeking to preserve the status quo. Although Spain\u2019s economic crisis has affected workers in all age groups, youth unemployment is more than double the overall jobless rate of 21.2 percent, the highest in the industrialized world. Around half of Spain\u2019s youth are unemployed and the other half that is working often does so under highly exploitative employment conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s status quo is preserved by a dysfunctional economic, political and judicial system as well as an unwritten social contract whereby many college graduates work in poorly paid apprenticeships (often earning the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publico.es\/espana\/353991\/el-gobierno-aprueba-subir-el-salario-minimo-un-1-3-para-2011\" target=\"_blank\">minimum wage of \u20ac641<\/a> or $900 a month), sometimes for ten years or more, leaving them no other option than to live at home with their parents, sometimes until their mid-thirties. (By way of comparison, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publico.es\/dinero\/246194\/el-63-de-los-trabajadores-en-espana-es-mileurista\" target=\"_blank\">63 percent of all Spanish workers earn less than \u20ac1100 per month<\/a>, creating the neologism <em>mileurista<\/em>, a one thousand euro earner.)<\/p>\n<p>In its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imf.org\/external\/pubs\/ft\/reo\/2011\/eur\/eng\/ereo0511.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Regional Economic Outlook for Europe<\/a>, the International Monetary Fund on May 12 warned that youth unemployment in Spain raises the prospect of a \u201clost generation.\u201d Colloquially, the current generation of Spaniards between the ages of 18 and 34 is known as the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpais.com\/articulo\/sociedad\/Generacion\/ni-ni\/estudia\/trabaja\/elpepisoc\/20090622elpepisoc_1\/Tes\" target=\"_blank\">Generaci\u00f3n \u2018ni-ni\u2019: ni estudia ni trabaja<\/a>\u201d, roughly translated as \u201cThe Neither-Nor Generation: Neither Studying Nor Working.\u201d According to a recent survey, more than half of Spanish youth say they have no purpose in life and nearly all of them believe they are worse off than their parents.<\/p>\n<p>Opinion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cis.es\/cis\/opencms\/ES\/NoticiasNovedades\/Documentacion_PreEAM11_MD.html\" target=\"_blank\">polls forecast devastating losses for the Socialists<\/a> on May 22, as voters punish them for the government\u2019s handling of the economic crisis and the painful austerity measures aimed at avoiding a debt default. Polls published in the centre-left <em>El Pa\u00eds<\/em> and the center-right <em>El Mundo<\/em> newspapers predicted broad losses for the Socialists including in strongholds such as Barcelona, Seville and the Castilla-La Mancha region. According to <em>El Mundo<\/em>, the Socialist Party is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elmundo.es\/especiales\/2011\/15m\/\" target=\"_blank\">on the edge of a catastrophe<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero announced on April 2 that he would not stand for a third term in general elections scheduled for March 2012. Some in the party believe a new leader could halt the fall in the Socialists\u2019 popularity.<\/p>\n<p>Mariano Rajoy, the leader of the conservative Popular Party, stands to make huge gains in the elections on May 22. But after eight years in the opposition and after many months on the campaign trail, he has yet to say how he plans to reverse Spain\u2019s economic fortunes if he finally becomes prime minister in 2012. If anything, Rajoy is emblematic of the mindset that ails contemporary Spain. Although he has lost two general elections to Zapatero (in 2004 and 2008), Rajoy hopes he will be third time lucky, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brusselsjournal.com\/node\/3372\" target=\"_blank\">not because he is a superior candidate<\/a>, but by default because the Socialists have self-destructed. And so the cycle continues.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has described the protests in Spain as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-13437819\" target=\"_blank\">echoes of the pro-democracy rallies that revolutionized Egypt<\/a>.\u201d Of course, the pro-democracy rallies in Egypt have not really revolutionized, much less democratized, Egypt. Nor are the protests in Spain likely to usher in very much \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/democraciarealya.es\/?page_id=814\" target=\"_blank\">real democracy now<\/a>\u201d or in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published by <a title=\"Spain's Socialist Utopia Mugged by Reality\" href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/blog\/spains-socialist-utopia-mugged-by-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\">PJ Media<\/a> on May 21, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"SoerenKern.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soerenkern.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soeren Kern<\/a> is Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estrat\u00e9gicos \/ Strategic Studies Group<\/em>. 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