My view obviously is different, I view it as a matter of self determination. To me whether it is a matter of colonialisation is largely immaterial. The reason G

My view obviously is different, I view it as a matter of self determination. To me whether it is a matter of colonialisation is largely immaterial. The reason Gandhi's method works is because it leaves only two options, kill the complainants or acquiesce. Authority comes from submission, if someone does not submit to you then you have no authority over them; your only choice then is to either kill them or let them be. So if a sizeable percentage of Catalans come to the point of willing to risk everything to no longer submit to Madrid then Madrid will have only two options. Whether Brussels would allow the first of those two options is rather obvious. As with the vast majority of things in this life, the most committed wins.