The great Franco revival circus
Why nostalgia for ’the good old days’ can be dangerous — and what’s really behind the revival circus
Spain seems to be caught in a weird collective daydream lately — a growing number of young people claiming: “Under Franco, we lived better.” In my latest piece for the Camino de Ítaca column, I dig into why this kind of nostalgia isn’t just ahistorical — it’s dangerous.
I argue that what looks like a longing for stability is really a romanticising of repression, a rewriting of history that treats dictatorship as “order,” and democracy as messy, inconvenient chaos.
If you’ve ever wondered how we went from civil rights to calling authoritarianism a lifestyle aesthetic, or why so many people dismiss liberty as chaotic, this article might give you a wake-up call. Curious to read more? You can find the article here: Sur in English
En castellano aqui: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lPZXykLDyY7DKWsfr4qX9NX94aP8tXZ-/view?usp=sharing
