HISP 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Roman Salute, Catalan Nationalism, Carlism
24 Mar 2016
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Lecture 22 - spain under franco and the transition to democracy. Francoist state forged during the civil war itself. By 1937, all the political parties supporting the rebellion were united under the national movement. Army (true representatives of the spirit of spain) Church (believed that spain should retain its essential catholic nature and spirit) Falange (spanish fascist party - they believed in a modernist new type of country) Behind them were the other groups: carlists, conservatives, monarchists, etc. Corruption started in the enlightenment reforms of the 18th century. The ideal was the imperial, hierarchical traditions of the catholic kings. The means for the disinfection were mass executions, imprisonment, redemption through penal labor, inculcation of the regime"s values through education, psychological programming. For franco, spain"s linguistic plurality was a weakness. Spain had to be one single culturally homogeneous entity: catholic, castilian-speaking. Basques, galicians, catalans could not speak their ancestral language but could only speak castilian.
