Abstract
The Podemos phenomenon has marked the political cycle that started in Spain after the 15M. Without its emergence, based on a successful counterhegemonic politicization of prevailing common sense, it is impossible to explain the crisis of the so-called 1978 Regime and how this crisis has opened a window of opportunity to rethink the Spanish constitutional pact. However, the civilizational crisis, especially in its ecological dimension, inaugurates a new framework in which the continuous expectations regarding the standards of material life that are typical of advanced industrial societies will be systematically frustrated. This chapter analyzes the Podemos phenomenon as a reality trapped in this complex contradiction.
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Notes
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See the works cited by Fernández and Reyes, Riechmann, and also Santiago Muíño Rutas.
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See Kurz, O colapso.
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See the works cited by Rifkin and Mason.
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See the works by Heinberg and by Capellán et al.
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The “golden minute” with which Pablo Iglesias closed his speech in the most important televised debate among candidates for Prime Minister: ‘The second thing that I am going to ask you is that you smile. Smile at the 15M movement, smile at the squares.’ The video is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOHyXqOPrzE.
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Television intervention. The video is available at: http://www.lasexta.com/programas/el-objetivo/noticias/inigo-errejon-el-movimiento-del-15m-es-irrepresentable-como-expresion-politica_201605155738e1b26584a80ce7ad094f.html.
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In Spanish, Nini is the equivalent term to Neet (not in employment, education or training).
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It can be consulted at https://ultimallamadamanifiesto.wordpress.com/el-manifiesto/.
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Santiago Muíño, E. (2019). The Podemos Phenomenon and the Crisis of Civilization. In: Pereira-Zazo, Ó., Torres, S. (eds) Spain After the Indignados/15M Movement. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19435-2_8
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