On: Mario Vargas Llosa has died

[ghostDancer]

Savater has not experienced socialism, Spain has never been socialist, Savater has been always someone in great need of attention and joins anyone who gives him that. And the Spain's fascism has give him that. I've seen it since He was teaching in University In San Sebastian and was easier to find him in certain bars and in the horse races than at his work.

[harperlee → ghostDancer]

> Spain has never been socialist

This seems like a no true scotsman argument, Spain has been mostly governed by a socialist party since it became a democracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Socialist_Workers%27_P...

[ghostDancer → harperlee]

And you probably think that North Korea is a Democratic Republic too causes it's says so. Look at what they do not at what the say.

[esaiohotpvld → harperlee]

Despite the name and its history, today they are just the Spanish socialdemocrats, from that same link:

> Historically Marxist, it abandoned the ideology in 1979

[ljsprague → ghostDancer]

They did kill nuns though.