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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
Catholicism and Quebec nationalism have a pretty incredible history, but I would say it's pretty far from the truth to align today's sovereigntists with the Catholic church and conservatism.
The Quiet Revolution was a secular, nationalist reaction to the fact that all power in Quebec was held by a conservative Anglo-Catholic coalition. When Duplessis died in 1959, the province went through a profound change.
Quebec went - almost overnight - from one of the most religious to the most secular societies on earth and the sovereignty movement was born during that transition. |
Pretty much. The FLQ were Marxists, and were popular with Quebec's leftist intelligentsia until they went too far against the imperialist oppressors and killed Pierre Laporte. And the PQ are the most left-leaning party in North America. Nationalism and socialism aren't at all incompatible. In fact, it's making a comeback around the world.
But the new configuration of left and right is probably better served by its own thread.