Descaro del nacionalismo académico (O las muchas malicias de Ulises Moulines)

Abstract

Here is a criticism to the Ulises Moulines’ new article «Crispaciones hispánicas», published in this issue as a reply to mine «Un nacionalista en apuros», that was arguing in turn to his former paper «Manifiesto nacionalista». In the first part, I detail the many ways in which my opponent breaks the moral conditions that should rule a theoretical debate. So, it is reviewed his resort to victimization, his different sophistries in order to misrepresent my explicit theses and, in general, his systematic escape from almost all my objections. The second part of this paper pretends to prove the weakness of the syllogism which condenses the main assumptions of Moulines. The ontological premise, rather than the existence of the nations, points out the existence of the nationalism committed to build nations and provide them with sovereignty; the axiological premise, or the so-called principle of the «Intrinsic Value of the Being’s Plurality », turns out aesthetics and ethically indefensible; in the end his practical conclusion, on behalf of the nationalism, would be inconsistent apart from rash. In the third part, I suggest a couple of thoughts against the Moulines’ proposals about the present Spain; on the one hand, the meaning of the «multinational» nature of our country and why it is better to name it «Spain» than «Spanish state»; on the other hand, after rejecting the choice «or resignation or secession», I show the lack of legitimating reasons for self-determination plebiscites as well as the nonsense and probable disastrous effects of its practice today in Spain.