Why is there no thread about Spain reverting to fascism?

[torok]

I do understand that Spain does not want Catalonia to become independent. I also understand that the referendum is pretty much illegal so it is not worth anything.

The big problem here is how Spain handled the situation. Beating up voters and using tons of violence is ridiculous. That the level of repression is only increasing the amount of support that the separatist movement gets.

I think that Spain should just have labeled the voting illegal, but not using force to try to avoid it from happening. Just let people vote and then say that the result is not valid. Without the use of violence the support that the movement would get would be weaker and it would be easier to just ignore it and probably a lengthy legal battle would try to determine who is correct, time would pass and people would kind of forget about it. It could be that simple.

They just made the population really stop to think if they want to be treated in such a manner and I believe that now the separatist movement really is a thing.

As a side note, that was not Fascism at all. This is probably one of the most misused terms of all time. To be fascist, you have to basically become an almost communist state, but replacing the concept of class conflict with a extreme idolization of the state. Communism tries to make the state absorb all means of production, while Fascism leaves them to the private sector but regulates it heavily so they only serve the interests of the state. It is a type of anti-communism that operates quite differently but reaches almost the same grim results.

A better title would be: "Why is there no thread about Spain reverting to violent repression?"