Institute for Hispano Studies
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Hispanic-Catholic Civilization & Pan-Iberian geopolitics YouTube: https://t.co/334t4JYelc Substack: https://t.co/5HSelluj7S
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AFRICA BEGINS IN THE PYRENEES: The French Insult That Backfired France called Spain African to push it outside civilized Europe. Spanish thinkers responded by turning the insult into a theory of Spain itself. From Napoleon to Franco, this is the forgotten argument over the Spain’s African spirit: is it merely Europe’s southern edge, or a civilization forged where Europe and Africa collided?
Institute for Hispano Studies104,526 views • 13 days ago
“Pedro Sánchez is one of the most anti-Israel heads of government”
Institute for Hispano Studies54,746 views • 27 days ago
SPAIN IS AFRICAN Not just geographically, but civilizationally. Spain was forged on the frontier between Europe and Africa, Christianity and Islam. That confrontation helped shape the universal imperial logic that eventually crossed the Atlantic in 1492.
Institute for Hispano Studies42,149 views • 25 days ago
🔥 WE ARE DEFENDING OUR 500 YEAR CIVILIZATION ✊🏽
Institute for Hispano Studies598,376 views • 1 year ago
Watch this viral AI-slop video if you want to understand the mental poverty and broken self-esteem of the average Mexican. Erasing 300 years of the Viceroyalty of New Spain and the cultural mestizaje born within it and thanks to it is nothing but collective embarrassment toward: - our language (Spanish + the hundreds of languages protected by the missionaries + thousands of “indigenismos”) - our religion (apparition of the Virgen de Guadalupe, posadas, procesiones, Día de los Muertos, Sor Juana) - our music (mariachi, norteño, rancheras, cumbia, banda, corridos) - our food and drinks (tacos al pastor, chicharrones, carnitas, mezcal, tequila, chiles en nogada) - our history as the epicenter of the First Globalization (Galeón de Manila, silver dollar as the first global currency) - our art, architecture and urbanism (cathedrals, plazas, convents, fortresses, roads, Viceregal baroque, exvotos, muralismo) This isn’t liberation. It’s national nihilism. It’s shame at being Mexican.
Institute for Hispano Studies98,079 views • 7 months ago
Trump: “We’re cutting off all trade with Spain!” 🇪🇸 Meanwhile Spain:
Hispanic American Studies62,491 views • 6 months ago
🔥 Protesting is good but JOINING AN ORG IS BETTER! ¡Organícense hermanos!
Hispanic American Studies113,119 views • 1 year ago
Indigenism is essentially New World Carlism And much like Carlism, it eventually degenerated into decolonial ethnat barbarism Indigenism can be read as a New World analogue to Carlism (and vice versa: Carlism as a peninsular indigenism) insofar as both defend inherited communal rights, local autonomy, customary law, and corporate privileges against the centralizing, secularizing, market-centric liberal state. Carlism defended fueros, local jurisdictions, Catholic social order, monarchy, and traditional corporate society against liberal constitutionalism, centralization, secularization, and bourgeois property relations. In Spanish America, many indigenous communities likewise defended usos y costumbres, communal landholding, local self-government, religious-customary authority, and the viceregal legal personality of the república de indios against liberal reforms that sought to dissolve corporate bodies into abstract individual citizenship and private property. The parallel is especially strong around: 1. Anti-centralism Carlists defended regional fueros against Madrid’s liberal centralism. Indigenous communities often defend municipal, communal, or ethnic autonomy against national capitals and liberal bureaucracies. 2. Corporate society versus liberal individualism Carlism belonged to a world of estates, corporations, privileges, churches, guilds, municipalities, and kingdoms. Indigenous communities also struggle to preserve collective legal personality: communal lands, communal office-holding, cargo systems, customary authority, and separate jurisdictional status— oftentimes armed with documents from the Viceroyalty (see Zapatismo & Neo-Zapatismo) 3. Tradition as political legitimacy Both could claim that legitimacy comes not from abstract universal rights alone, but from inherited law, custom, blood, religion, locality, and historical pact. 4. Resistance to bourgeois revolution Nineteenth-century liberalism in Spain and Spanish America often meant disentailment, privatization, secularization, codification, abolition of special jurisdictions, and expansion of capitalist property relations. Both Carlism and many indigenous movements resisted that transformation. Although indigenism generally represents a New World counter-liberal traditionalism structurally analogous to Carlism, it is also true that state indigenismo in Mexico or Peru could be modernizing, nationalist, socialist, developmentalist, and even anti-traditional in practice. It often wanted to incorporate indigenous people into the nation, not restore the old republic of Indians. Funny enough, this is what many complain happened to Carlism when it accepted Franco’s 1937 Unification Decree, consenting to modernization under a developmentalist “national-Catholic”/Falangist model. The tragedy of both movements is that the genuine kernel of their anti-liberal critique — the defense of communal life, inherited right, local sovereignty, and corporate personality against the dissolving acid of liberal-capitalist modernity — was eventually captured by something worse. Carlism curdled into ETA terrorism; indigenism curdled into ethnic nationalism, decolonial revanchism, and a new kind of identitarian essentialism that mistakes blood and grievance for political philosophy. In both cases, a legitimate resistance to bourgeois universalism ended by fetishizing particularity into a weapon. The lesson isn’t that the fuero-defenders and comuneros were wrong to resist, they often weren’t. It’s that corporate traditionalism, absent a genuinely universalizable political theory, has no immune system against romanticism. When the old hierarchical-Catholic or viceregal architecture collapsed, what remained was just the tribe. Carlism without God and King becomes Basque separatism. Indigenism without the república de indios becomes woke ethnic cleansing. The liberal they both opposed was wrong about man. But the thing they became forgot man entirely.
Institute for Hispano Studies24,423 views • 3 months ago
