Javier Aroca lashes out at Felipe González in 'Malas Lenguas' for his statements on LGTBI acronyms and migration: "Mahogany socialism of reserved, pure and a drink"

The political analysis in a current affairs program led to an intense discussion about the latest statements by Felipe González on immigration, public services, and the welfare state, with very opposing positions among the collaborators.

The former president stated that he was “concerned” by the increase in the list of identities and collectives, alluding to the LGTBI+ community, words that generated an immediate response from Loreto Ochando, who described them as “indecent, absolutely indecent,” also reproaching the historical impact of this type of discourse on rights.

Jesús Cintora focused his intervention on questioning the relationship that the former president also made between immigration and pressure on public services, arguing that the deterioration of the health and education system responds, in his opinion, to processes of precarization and privatization, and not to the arrival of migrants.

In that context, Javier Aroca was very critical of Felipe González's latest interventions, although he clarified that he does not believe there is a specific political intention behind his words. “If it weren't because I truly don't believe it, I would think he is postulating himself as Vox's next candidate,” he even pointed out, before insisting that, in his opinion, these are “erratic” statements that respond to another logic.

In his analysis, Aroca interpreted these positions as part of a drift within the former president's own historical socialism. In that sense, he spoke of a “regression of the socialism he represented,” which today, he said, translates into a vision far removed from the tradition of ideological renewal of the progressive space.

The analyst was especially graphic in defining this evolution as a kind of “reserved socialism, reserved in restaurants, cigar and drink,” a metaphor with which he wanted to describe what he considers a detachment from current social and political reality. Aroca expanded on this idea by referring to a “mahogany socialism,” which he placed far from the ideological vanguard and also from any process of renewal.

In his opinion, this approach “neither has memory nor represents a regeneration of socialism,” but rather represents, he insisted, an anchored and disconnected vision of the present of socialist thought.