This paper examines the world’s view of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the main leader and founder of Falange Española Tradicionalista between 1931 – when he begins his politics writings with the public defence of image and government of his father, the General Primo de Rivera – and 1936, the ...
(Show more)This paper examines the world’s view of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the main leader and founder of Falange Española Tradicionalista between 1931 – when he begins his politics writings with the public defence of image and government of his father, the General Primo de Rivera – and 1936, the year of his death in the republican’s prison of Alicante.
After the proclamation of Second Republic in Spain, there was the appearance of a multitude of parties in the intern political scenario, even with the great quantity of political positions, It’s undoubtedly the importance of the phalangist party and its principal leader during the republican period.
Hence, we preferred restricted our study to analyse the nexus of the ‘primorriveriano’ speech. The starting point to observe the Rivera’s ideology is his concept of Universal Spain. Within of this basilar idea, we are going to analyze his position on liberalism and communism; the role and consequences of the regionalists and separatists movements i.e., Catalonia and Basque Country; and the characteristics of economy to the development of Spain. The present work remarks his arguments on the construction of a Spain that should be a unitary country, proposing a regressive position based on an extreme nationalism through a return to the golden age of the Spanish history.
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