tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post8045953677014817..comments2023-08-19T16:44:23.150+01:00Comments on National Left: Mondragon is a Basque story not Spanish.glynbeddauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09933352430631144936noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post-14671289715384115022012-06-16T16:19:13.005+01:002012-06-16T16:19:13.005+01:00Its definitley Basque and its a community enterpri...Its definitley Basque and its a community enterprise development - not co-operative <br />Its been going over 25 years and is amazingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post-70558278822335286372012-06-16T09:33:49.602+01:002012-06-16T09:33:49.602+01:00The other fact witch the Bevan Foundation and othe...The other fact witch the Bevan Foundation and other Brit Lefts fail to notice or, rather ignore, is that Basque economic performance is better than Spain. <br /><br />One central reason for this is Basque nationalism - that is, the Basque provinces raise and keep their taxes and then transfere money to Madrid. <br /><br />That is, the strength of Basque nationalism has created an economic set-up which insentivises the Basques to create work and create good economic policies .... exactly the very same model which the @BevanFoundation, Carwyn Jones and Labour don't want for Wales!<br /><br />Mondragon is very much a Basque model. But it seems the spirit of Engles and Marx who wished to see Basques, Bretons and other small nations become 'ethnic residue or trash' because they weren't part of the great nations lives on.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3uFUxMwA1w <br /><br />Heaven help us if writers for the Bevan Foundation saw that a small nation following nationalist constitutional strategy may be a model for success for Wale ... sorry, Englandandwales or however they see us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com