Reality of revolt, reasons of utopia
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There is no party without any surprise guest, although the former is a pantomime and the second one that an undesirable that nobody is waiting for because everyone is afraid. The Spanish transition would not be an exception, and so it was as the post-Franco intrigue was impaired by a new cycle of proletarian struggles known as working class autonomy, organized in assemblies with recallable delegates and concrete demands responding to real problems, and which in themselves, often escaped from the factory and the economy to spread to the neighborhood and disturb life. These features, and the spontaneity with which they manifest themselves explain the almost revolutionary power of the worker's autonomy in the context of that “second assault of the proletariat” which showed it cards in Paris, Portugal and Italy, as it did in Vitoria or in the port of Barcelona. That such an assault was given in a second even larger existential context, the so-called counter culture that explored new ways of life through drugs, sexuality, music or travel, justified without doubt that many of their players spoke of “living utopia”, even if it may seem today that that lifestyle was more a preview of the current social (...) Leer más