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The Ideology of Spain's Technocratic Catholicism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2018
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Spanish counterrevolutionary thought was born in the eighteenth century as a reaction against the Rationalism of the Enlightenment which, advancing from France, threatened the ideological apparatus of absolutism. It represented the intellectual aspect of the struggle between the class interests of the rising bourgeoisie and the two partners of traditional monarchic power, the nobility and the clergy. The intelligentsia of the regime based their ideological defense on the traditional myths, opposing that "Reason" which represented in their judgment the spirit of Evil itself.
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• I am indebted for this formulation to Javier Herrero, Los origenes del pensamiento Reaccionario Espaiiol, Cuademos para el Dialogo (Madrid, 1971).
•• I have dealt at some length with the ideal type of right-wing thought in the first part of an article, written in collaboration with M. Arent, “The Right-wing Intelligentsia in Argentina: An Analysis of Its Ideology and Political Activity,” Social Research (Autumn, 1970).
••• The term “ideology” will be used both in its primitive sense, as in Desrutt de Tracy, meaning substantivation of “idea” or system of ideas, and, as in Marx and Mannheim, meaning a perspective inevitably associated with a particular historical and social situation.
• An anthology of the review Accidn Espahoia was published in Burgos in 1937, at the height of the Civil War. My quotations are from that invaluable document. Writer Jose Maria Peman, who was the last president of the society, has also left some information about its history in his Obras Selectas, InSditas y Vedadas (Barcelona, 1971).
* A “Conservative” regime, according to Hugh Thomas, author of the most complete work about the Civil War: “The nationalist side was Conservative but not Fascist. Franco should in no way be called a Fascist. It would be an error in my view to describe the national side as Fascist” (found in Miguel Veyrat, Hablando de Espana en voz alt a, Madrid, undated).