La Ragione violenta di Ramiro Ledesma Ramos. Fascismo e pensiero conservatore in Spagna

Although the different perspectives this thesis could be read, it has a fundamental willing: explains, from the conceptual history owns methodology, the specific rationality of Spanish fascism. Focusing its interest in Ramiro Ledesma Ramos (1905-1936), he was the founder of the first Spanish fascist movement. Ledesma devised a modernization project of Spain that could only go through the organization of a total state. He tries to create a fascist mass movement with the capacity of founding a total state able to be an alternative to the republican liberalism and socialism. Spanish fascism emerges as a temporal experience typical of modernity. It would search to revitalize and accelerate a process, the modern one. This process was seen in the light of the angry Young of the beginnings of century which seen that as decadent and exhausted. Ledesma's approach arose from the need to combat those alleged degenerative forces (liberalism, communism, conservatism, etc.). Of contemporary Spanish history to erect a new modernity based on the rebirth of the nation. At the same time, it is intended to highlight the effectiveness of historical action raised by the Spanish reactionary thought. Under its coordinates, the nation never develops the sublimated features of European modern politics. He never abandoned the alleged orders of Catholic natural law of classicism that ultimately limited the absolute power of any political sovereign. This historical particularity, dragged from the first modernity, obstinately prevent any revolutionary wave that would cause the autonomy of the political sphere and thus the establishment of a totalitarian power. In fact, when it will be establish the dictatorship of Franco, the result would be a minimal state under the assumptions of traditionalism which left their own economic dynamics.