Kocbekovo Premišljevanje o Španiji

Authors

  • Peter Kovačič Peršin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51663/pnz.56.1.04

Keywords:

Spanish Civil War, political Catholicism, corporativism, fascism, communism, revolution, Christian socialism, Crusades, Yugoslav Labour Association, Edvard Kocbek, Andrej Gosar, France Koblar

Abstract

EDVARD KOCBEK'S 'REFLECTION' ON SPAIN

Due to the Spanish Civil War, the ideological conflicts in the Catholic circles became more distinct. The clerical part, particularly the Slovenecdaily, which published biased articles on the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and 1937 with a special emphasis on condemning the rise of the popular front, understood the publication of Edvard Kocbek's essay as an attack on its views. Kocbek's purpose behind the Ponderingwas, however, to present a more balanced picture of the Spanish tragedy that was based on the reports by West European writers who favoured the Spanish republic.

The Ponderingwas the central crystallising point that led to the final split in the Catholic circles, while at the same time stirring the left-wing political groups to start fighting for a common goal. But the main reason that it became the central crystallising point was the militant response by the right-wing Catholic group; the essay in itself would have otherwise been only considered a balanced representation of the situation in Spain, which were presented one-sidedly by the clerical press. This shows that political tensions on the territory of today's Slovenia had already reached their climax as early as a few years before the war, thus rendering a dialogue and a democratic compromise that could unite the Slovenians in a national defensive attitude impossible.

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Published

2016-05-25

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