Atlas / Organisations / Falangism
Falangism
Spanish Phalanx · 1933–1975 · Spain · Fascist · Movement · coding confidence medium
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
National-syndicalist unity of Spain under Catholic and imperial identity, against both class war and liberal parliamentarism.
Economic model
Vertical syndicates combining owners and workers by decree; autarky; later technocratic liberalisation.
Organisation of powers
Single legal movement under Franco; no elections, no free press or unions.
Reading note
Absorbed into a broader authoritarian regime that was more clerical-conservative than fascist after 1945.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored 00
Coded at zero: vertical syndicates combining owners and workers by decree.
- Programme textThe 1938 Labour Charter organised the economy into state syndicates and outlawed strikes.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +09
Coded +9: Catholic national order restored by statute.
- Documented act or statuteCivil marriage and divorce were abolished in 1938; the 1953 concordat made Catholicism the state religion.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +09
Coded +9: a single legal movement with no elections.
- Documented act or statuteAll parties were merged into the FET by decree in April 1937.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +08
Coded +8: a unitary Spain with regional languages suppressed.
- Documented act or statuteCatalan and Basque were banned from public and official use after 1939.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +05
Coded +5 after the v2.2 review: assimilationist Hispanidad rather than racial closure.
- Programme textThe doctrine claimed a civilisational community across the Spanish-speaking world.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +06
Coded +6: power taken by military rising and civil war.
- Documented act or statuteThe July 1936 rising began a war that killed around 500,000 people.
Where it came from, and what came after
- takes its doctrine fromIntegral Nationalism
Maurras' integral nationalism was read across the Latin European right.
- takes its doctrine fromItalian Fascism
The Spanish party was founded in 1933 on the Italian model.
Scores that have been revised
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Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
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