Preface

Ruiz-Rufino, Rubén

doi:10.1093/9780198949329.002.0005

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This book started to be forged several years ago—concretely, in the early evening of Friday, 20 May 2011, in Madrid. That warm evening, I was walking with some of my best friends to the Puerta del Sol, which at that time was absolutely packed with tents, placards, and thousands of people with a single goal in mind: to change the political system. What came to be known as the 15-M movement had been in the making for some time, but it really exploded in the weeks leading to the 2011 municipal elections. The impact of this large surge in protest and political mobilization was so significant, at the time, that anyone interested in politics, whether as analyst or activist, simply wanted to be in Madrid’s most famous square.

The entire space was full of people—overwhelmingly young ones but also middle-aged and senior individuals—claiming that democracy no longer served to protect the future of young generations, that it served only the interests of big capital or, simply, that it was the instrument that neoliberalism needed to become the only possible economic paradigm. The message of the 15-M movement was very simple: democracy is not working, and it needs to be rebooted. As a single message, it was powerful. Obviously, however, this general message was open to different diagnoses among participants, although they all shared a unifying concern: democratic procedures were not real any more in the sense that elections no longer served citizens but, rather, self-interested politicians or big capital owners.

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