lopez
29/03/2004, 12:35 PM
The Falange Espanola was the closest thing that spain had to a fascist movement and they fought with Franco in the Civil war and at the end he very cleverly united a number of right-wing movements under the umbrella of Falange Espanola y las JONS which kept them all reasonably happy...
It became the Falange Espanola 'Tradicionalista' y de las JONS - JONS being a smaller fascist party that were big into national (or vertical) syndicalism where trade unions are based on national (vertical) lines and not class (and therefore horizontal) lines. The word 'Tradicionalista' was important here in that it changed the whole nature of the party to the extent it was no longer credible as a fascist organisation. It would be like a breakaway party from SF being called 'Unionist Sinn Fein.'
It became the Falange Espanola 'Tradicionalista' y de las JONS - JONS being a smaller fascist party that were big into national (or vertical) syndicalism where trade unions are based on national (vertical) lines and not class (and therefore horizontal) lines. The word 'Tradicionalista' was important here in that it changed the whole nature of the party to the extent it was no longer credible as a fascist organisation. It would be like a breakaway party from SF being called 'Unionist Sinn Fein.'