Some are between bewildered and angry about the workerist vein that has entered Vox. Even a journalist with a progressive heart has shown her amazement at the fact that Ivan Espinosa de los Monteros, future Marquis of Valtierra, defends the cause of the blue monkey in Parliament. It is to completely ignore the history of the labor movement. It is not that we dominate it, but enough to know the close ties that many aristocrats have had with this struggle, from Prince Kropotkin, one of the fathers of anarchism, to the more domestic Nicolas Sartorius Alvarez de las Asturias and Bohorques, son of the counts of San Luis, communist and co-founder of the Workers’ Commissions.
On the illiberal right there was always a streak of workerism. As Mr. Jose Luis Comellas explained with his impeccable and implacable conservative irony, the Maurista Party paraded two workers (always the same ones) around its meetings to demonstrate its social concerns, and Fuerza Nueva had its own union, Fuerza Nacional del Trabajo, whose first National leader, Jose Antonio Assiego, proclaimed with suicidal nostalgia his intention to return to the system of vertical unions. In the Falange Espanola de las JONS itself, which was never considered a right-wing party, the workerism of Ramiro Ledesma coexisted with the peasant Catholicism of Onesimo Redondo and the Ortegan orientation of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera. And the Carlist Party was a somewhat crazy attempt to ingratiate God, the charters, the homeland and the “legitimate king” with self-managed socialism. Nothing new, then, under the sun.
For some time now, Vox has included in its strategy the penetration of working-class neighborhoods, something that the liberal right has always renounced. This claim should not surprise us in a party that sees lepenismo as a source of inspiration. The big question is how the formation of Abascal will manage to ingratiate his populist and workerist line with his traditionalist drive.
The left, which has always considered the working districts as fiefdoms, is right to worry about Vox’s claims. But it would be much better to ask why the right-wing party has seen a hole to fill in these urban and social geographies. Workers (the real ones) can hardly identify with the occurrences and ideological excesses of many of the leaders of the current left: the extravagant transsexual cause, posh animalism, squatting, radical feminism-castrator, multiculturalism… Wow! as a currante of those from before would say.

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