Socialism and the national question in Spain during the Restoration (1875-1931).

Authors

  • DANIEL GUERRA SESMA

Keywords:

territorial debate, federalism, socialism, national question.

Abstract

Departing from the territorial debate, numerous analysts have emphasized the existence if two ideological strands inside the Spanish Worker Socialist Party, distinguishing between one more unitarist or «Jacobine» and another more federalist tradition. The projection given to the controversy responds to the central role of the Socialist Party in articulating the territorial question in Spain. This is why the left-wing has difficulty in resolving that Santos Juliá calls «the trade-off between national feeling/socialists postulates». The article asks whether from its origin in the Restoration, the Spanish socialist party gave a specific treatment to the issue of nationalities in Spain, generating one of both traditions, or whether there has been a sequence of conjunctural pronouncements reflecting an accidentalist evolution of the subject.

Published

2008-03-24

Issue

Section

ARTICLES