Imperialism, fascism and ideology (IX)
EUSKAL HERRIA AND THE KINGDOM OF NABARRE, OR THE BASQUE PEOPLE AND ITS STATE, AGAINST FRENCH-SPANISH IMPERIALISM IX – Imperialism, fascism and ideology Iñaki Aginaga and Felipe Campo All imperialistic political régime, which established its power through criminal Violence, has now an increasingly imperative ideological need of legitimizing its power and hiding the role of that violence in history and society; and the modern totalitarian ideology provides it remedy to that imperative need. Its ideologists must therefore mask and conceal the reality, that is: the origin, foundation and nature of criminal Violence of the political régime thus established and preserved, which they do on the contrary present as a “legitimate and democratic” one. Criminally violent origin, foundation and nature that are replaced – in the corresponding ideological delirium created by those ideologists – through a social order without violence: not only as something utopian which is aimed to but as an al