Fascistization and fascism

Spanish dynamics in a Eeuropean process

Bibliographic Data

ID12936289
AuthorsFerran Gallego (Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume25
Issue3
Pages159-181
Publication date2012-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Iberian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1758-9150 • E-ISSN: 1364-971X
PublisherIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/ijis.25.3.159_1
OpenAlexW2325013465
LanguageEN
Citations received5

This article defends the hypothesis that the regime built during the Spanish Civil War should be included within the historical category of fascism. The concept of fascistization is used to examine the evolution of the radical right wing and its convergence into a Spanish fascism that culminated in a civil war. This concept answers the main objections commonly held regarding the fascist nature of the regime that began in 1936: namely the minority standing of the Spanish fascist party, the existence of heterogeneous components in the movement that led to the civil war, a dictatorship that relied upon traditional segments of society to establish hegemony and the irreconcilable relationship between fascism and the essentially catholic nature of the new regime. Here it is shown that such objections can also be launched against other regimes usually considered fascist and that fascistization was not an alternative to, but rather the implementation of fascism under the conditions defining Spain in the 1930s

Civil society · Convergence (economics · Democracy · Dictatorship · Economics · Hegemony · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Spanish History and Politics

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