After the First World War, Europe fell into the arms of totalitarian regimes. The main ones were fascism, Nazism and Franco, systems of "effective and dominant repression," with "populist leaders and demagogues." However, the "Russian revolution" was an " illusion of great power for intellectuals, writers and artists ."

This appears in one of the literature books studied in high school in the Balearic Islands, and is part of the 170-page report prepared by Balearic Civil Society and the PLIS Education platform. The authors go on page by page with examples of manipulations that refer, fundamentally, "to Pan-Patalanist nationalism and linguistic Marxism , establishing Spanish as a social class instrument linked to the aristocracy since the fifteenth century." In fact, they say in the report, " Marxism is behind some nationalist statements , such as that the Castilian foreign language is an instrument of social class oppression."

In the Catalan Language and Literature textbooks analyzed, it is mentioned that in the period before the Second World War there were two dominant blocks, fascism and the Russian revolution, the report said. But "it is striking that, while the name that defines it ideologically, fascism is chosen for the fascist bloc, a name of ambiguous meaning, revolution , is preferred for communism , " they point out.

In property, notes the document of the SCB and the professors of PLIS Education, "Nazism, fascism and communism were revolutionary movements, because they managed to subvert the established order without respect for the current legality, and totalitarian, because they ended democracy and denied individual freedom in favor of the absolute power of the state. " So "reserve the name revolution, which retains certain romantic and quasi-heroic connotations only to communism, denotes a very clear indoctrinating will," he concludes.

This "salvage", moreover, "is not an exclusive feature of nationalist-inspired textbooks, but general in almost all Spanish textbooks, and in all manuals," the report notes. And they believe that "it responds to an ideology of the Marxist left, widespread in European historiography ."

Those responsible for the report have asked the Balearic Minister of Education, Martí March, and the high education inspection under the Ministry that directs Pedro Duque, the withdrawal of most of the textbooks analyzed.

In one of them a final question appears, in which the history of the past is transferred to the present, and the student is asked about the remains of totalitarianisms in today's societies. "Since only totalitarianism has been identified with fascism, Nazism and Francoism, it is more than evident that the intention is to provoke in the student the idea that in Spain and Europe, Francoist, fascist and Nazi remains remain, but not remnants of communist totalitarianism ", they point.

The report of the SCB and PLIS Education also calls attention to an "absurd" attempt to link the Catalan language with feminism . In one of the books analyzed, it is stated that in the Valencian bilingual work 'La vesita', by Ferrandis d'Heredia , "the contrast is shown between the characters who speak a spontaneous Catalan (women) and those who speak an artificial Castilian ".

For those responsible for the report "it is a crazy statement that does not resist a detailed analysis of the dramatic play , in addition to launching an absurd feminist message (men use Spanish and women use Catalan)."

The textbook itself selects from the work a dialogue between a noble lady and her maid Guzmana . It turns out that the courtesan uses Catalan and the servant the Castilian, "just the opposite of what the textbook has repeated several times, that the Castilian is limited from the XV to the court. There are not only courtiers who speak in Catalan, but, in addition, they show deep contempt for the Castilians, represented by maids, "says the report.

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