Reivindicació identitària i sobiranisme

• Autores: Txema Montero
• Localización: Diàlegs: revista d'estudis polítics i socials, ISSN 1138-9850, Vol. 1, Nº. 1, 1998, págs. 97-106
• Idioma: catalán
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  • Identitary vindication and sovereignism
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• Resumen

  • Identitary vindication and sovereignism [TXEMA MONTER0] The end of the 20th century has been described as the age of the nationalism, since the number of groups which assert their own identity and work in order to make this identity respected by other human groups has increased all over the world. And so, nationalism, this <> of the mankind, as Herder once described it, is drawing itself up.

    A new <> questions the established rules in the politic life. In contrast, the search of the definitive harmony in this matter, as Isaiah Berlin pointed out, is a fallacy. Therefore, before solving the problems generated by the identitary vindication, it will be necessary that negotiations are carried out pacifically and fairly. We cannot ignore due to the vindicatory abuses which have led to hate and intolerance (lugoslavia, Rwanda) many people feel a strong temptation to leave aside the matter of the rights of the minorities by just <>, independently of their ethnic or national identity. And thus, they rightfully wonder: <> An <> answer of the neo-liberal sort <>- is simply incoherent. The politic life has got an inevitable national dimension not only in reference to the frontiers and the distribution of powers, but also in reference to the language at school, the courts and the burocracies or the simple election of the public festivities. Without including the rights of representation in order to accomodate national groups and other disfavoured groups in every state, talking about otreating people as individuals>> is not more than a way of covering the ethnic and national injustices.

    In any case, the national rights have got two boundaries in relation to their internal and external protection. In the internal protection, the groups must be forbidden the oppression of their members, and in the external protection, a group must not be allowed to dominate other groups. To sum up, we must make sure that there is equality among groups as well as freedom and equality inside them.