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Imperialism, an elephant we don't see in class

Antton Olariaga.

You may remember that the last time I came to these lines I referred to the dialectic between freedom and the border. On that occasion I proposed to insist that, far from being opposing concepts, they are only two sides of the same coin, especially in the field of education, because the misidentification between freedom and immensity is the origin of many problems. Like all events in life, freedom must flourish in a limited space, for the mere fact of being defined and defined, because all realities are limited.

However, to say that the existence of the border is undeniable does not mean in any way that I believe that all limits are natural or that the quality of the reality around us should simply be accepted. I would not like to appear as a mere apologist for borders, because I am clear that not all boundaries are good, and that many of them are incompatible with freedom. The key is to make the right difference between the limits and the ability to know exactly which ones are of this type.

They must be eradicated, those limits that deny the essential needs of human beings, that seek to transform our being, or that are designed to stop us from being who we are. In the general sense, within this group would be those who in one way or another seek the manipulation of people; or in a more concrete area of education, the instructive limits that are designed to format the nature proper of children. The limits of this kind are characterized because there is always an implicit use of violence. The person's degree of doblegation or the person's resistance. The degree of pain will depend on these two variables.

However, imperialism is first and foremost the greatest enemy of human freedom. It is the reason for the difficulties of the freedom to find suitable ground throughout the world, and for the visible or camouflaged violence that is being applied to ensure that a large part of the world ' s population is not free. The crime of imperialism lies in the violation of the right of a people to be free in its territory, without external intervention and in peace, through war, conquest and occupation. But in an area where national freedom is denied, where by definition all the individual rights of citizens are impeded, imperialism is the greatest threat to all fundamental human rights and, therefore, the main enemy of democracy. Respect for the self-determination of peoples is, however, the condition that fundamental human rights may be in force, and that is why it is the basis of democracy.

Because it is at the root of the major violence against humanity, and because it threatens the ecological diversity of the human species, imperialism should be directed at any freedom fighter. In the case of the Basques, moreover, our survival is at stake, so it is urgent to put an end to the occupation of imperialism and to restore our independence. We can live and develop freely as Basques in our territory. That's just self-determination.

Unfortunately, Spanish and French imperialism remains the elephant in the class to which the vacuum is made. Even though it gives us a diagnosis of the problems, not the sound data we pay attention to.


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