Daily reminder that Francisco Franco was a centralizing modernist.
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Replying to @NoTrueScotist @AWeingerl
Still better than the contemporary alternative
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The mistake is in thinking that it's an actual alternative rather than the scenic route to the same destination.
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Are you saying that some sort of historical necessity doomed the Franco regime, and presumably also the Salazar regime, etc.?
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Yes absolutely, not because of historical determinism - but because of the very nature of the regimes. They were essentially parasitic upon the liberal order they claimed to oppose, doing little to alter the constitutional and institutional situation that they inherited.
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Fascism in general - of which they were a rather muted and conservative variety - represents a worship above all of power, which is for them the source of political order. This shared machiavellian understanding of politics with liberalism prevented any final deviation.
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my understanding of fascism is that it's a modernist attempt to replace God with the state as the ultimate source of authority
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