Ideology of the “Basque” collaborationism: “institutional path and armed struggle” (XXVI)
EUSKAL HERRIA AND THE KINGDOM OF NABARRE, OR THE BASQUE PEOPLE AND ITS STATE, AGAINST FRENCH-SPANISH IMPERIALISM XXVI – Ideology of the “Basque” collaborationism : “institutional path and armed struggle” Iñaki Aginaga y Felipe Campo “O inglorious league! Shall we, upon the footing of our land, Send fair-play orders and make compromise, Insinuation, parley and base truce To arms invasive?” (W. Shakespeare; King John .) With regard to “the space, the number and the resources”, the Basque is a small and necessarily peaceful People. Its weak defensive capacity corresponds to a poor index of internal and external aggressiveness; and its comparative low levels of “common” delinquency are a handicap of serious consequences for the international class struggle. The optimism inherent to the nationalist expansionism of warmongers and conquerors of all times did always point at it as an easy prey and scapegoat for the two “great” nations of prey that surround it; whose multi-centennial imper