Thread by @Timotero2

This was meant to be a short rant, but it ended being a thread.

Neither José Antonio nor Francisco Franco; Ramiro Ledesma!

Everyone knows why Francisco Franco was not a Fascist (except spergs and leftists), but there is something not many know in regards to Spanish Fascism, and that is; José Antonio Primo de Rivera was not the face of Spanish Fascism

Throughout the evolution of his writings and his side comments to his close ones, we can definitely understand that this person was nothing else but a larper that was trying to benefit from the Italian movement and its relevance.

Not only did he in many times deny that the Falange was a Fascist movement, but he would also reject Nationalism, hang around bourgeois elements, and admit to using Fascism as nothing else but a Facade from which they could benefit.

It is in his 1936 "Cuaderno de Notas de un Estudiante Europeo", he would state his final thoughts regarding Fascism:

Despite his initial larp and his visit to the 1935 CAUR Fascist conference, he would still trashtalk Fascism behind the doors and play its cards properly in order to get Italian support for the party.

On the other hand, he would engage in open discussions with...

Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, personality that actually supported Nationalism, whereas José Antonio openly opposed Nationalist attitudes and called it the "Individualism of Peoples". His approach at the world would certainly be based in a more Catholic centered politics...

that is also ellaborated on in his late stage writings in which he takes a more Humanitarian approach and fully embraces his rejection of Fascism, claiming that its life span would certainly be short due to their policies...

unless Germany rejected its imperially germanic approach, and tried to unify the people of Europe. Ramiro Ledesma for the other side would actually embrace Fascism and endorse nothing else but the motto of "Everything inside the State".

Ramiro Ledesma is worthy of his own thread, so I'll attach this photo that displays the main differences between him and José Antonio:

Due to these reasons, many Spanish Fascists eventually reject the figure of José Antonio, his initial Facade as a Fascist Leader falls apart once one gets to know the man behind his ideas, and his last thoughts. José Antonio was a Third Positionist, just not a Fascist one.

Rivera would go down as nothing else but a coward that would punch down on former friends such as Ramiro Ledesma, dying on his knees as he realized that he had put his bets on the wrong horse. He deserves no pitty from any Fascist.

The End