"The movement that we make today, which is not a party, but a movement that we can call anti-party, is neither right-wing nor left-wing. It is because, in fact, the right is simply a desire to preserve an economical organization, although it is unfair, and the left is indeed a desire to destruct an economical organisation, although the demolition of it will entail the demolition of many good things. This is then adorned, both in 1 and in the other, with a number of spiritual reasons. All those who perceive to us with good religion know that all these spiritual considerations are within our movement, but our movement will in no case bind its fates to the interests of a group or class that hide under a superficial division into the right and the left" - said José Antonio Primo de Rivera during the speech of the founding Spanish Falanga.
SPAIN FALANGA
INSTALLATION
THE TEATRO DE LA COMEDIA
29 OCTOBER 1933
There's no request to give a long thanks speech. Thanks should be simple and concise, as our military, laconic kind should be.
When in March 1762, a bad man named Jean-Jacques Rousseau published the "Social Agreement", the concept of political fact ceased to be a constant value. Earlier, in distant times, states fulfilling their historical missions had justice and fact written on their banners.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau assumed that the collective spirit of the nation possessed a higher soul, hierarchically different from each of our souls, and that this higher same is endowed with unwavering will, capable of defining at any time what is just and unjust, good and evil. And since this collective will, this sovereign will, is expressed only by a vote—the presumption of a majority triumphant over a number in guessing a higher will— As a result, it turned out that the vote, this farce with the notes thrown into the glass urn, had the ability to tell us at any time whether God exists or not; whether the fact is actual or not; whether the Homeland should stay or it would be better if at 1 minute she committed suicide.
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Because the liberal state became a servant of this doctrine, it was not a qualified creator of national fates, but an observer of election fights. For the Liberal state, it was only crucial that a certain group of masters should sit at the vote; that elections should begin at 8 and end at four; that the urns should not be broken, while their breakdown is the noblest destiny of all the urns. Then, to calmly accept what comes out of the urn, as if it were completely indifferent. In another words, liberal rulers did not even believe in their own task; they did not believe that they were there to fulfill a noble mission. Anyone who thinks differently and decides to take over the state, whether it be kind or not, has the same right to do so as the guards of the same state do to defend them.
Hence the democratic system, which is above all the most wasteful strategy of energy scattering. A man endowed with the unique talent to execute the noblest function of government, who could be the noblest of human functions, had to devote 80, 90, 95 percent of his energy to dealing with formal complaints, conducting electoral campaigns, naps in Parliament's benches, adoring voters, abolishing their impertinence, due to the fact that it was from the voters that he was to receive power, abolishing humiliation and insults from those who, by nature, should be subject to him due to the almost divine function of governing; and if after all this, he remained any time early in the morning or a fewer minutes of interrupted sleep, he could in the least amount of time seriously think of the material functions of governing.
Then there was the failure of the spiritual unity of nations, due to the fact that since the strategy operated on the basis of the accomplishment of the majority, anyone who wanted to win had to win the majority. And he had to get them, even by stealing, if necessary, from another parties; and to this end he had no uncertainty in the application of slanders, pouring out upon another worst insults, deliberate misdirection of truth, the exploitation of all lie and wickedness. And so, since the fraternity was 1 of the demands that the liberal state showed on its fronton, there was never specified a situation in collective life in which quarrelsome people would feel little brothers than in the turbulent and unpleasant life of the liberal state.
Finally, the liberal state led to our economical captivity, due to the fact that the workers, with tragic sarcasm, said, "You are free to work as much as you want; no 1 can forbid you from accepting 1 or another conditions; and since we are rich, we offer you conditions that we like; you, free citizens, if you do not want, are not obliged to accept them; but you, mediocre citizens, if you do not accept the conditions we impose upon you, will die of hunger, surrounded by the maximum dignity of a liberal state." And so you would see that in the countries where the brightest parliaments and the most sophisticated democratic institutions were achieved, it was adequate to decision a fewer 100 meters distant from the luxury neighborhoods to find the worst ruins in which the oppressed workers and their families lived, on the border of almost human dignity. And you would see farmers who were leaning over the sunburnt fields from dawn to dusk, earning all year round, thanks to a free game of liberal economics, seventy or eighty days' worth of 3 pesetas.
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Therefore, he had to be born, and it was the right birth (we do not hide any truth), socialism. Workers had to defend themselves against this system, which promised them only laws, but did not care about ensuring a just life.
Now socialism, which was a legitimate reaction to this liberal bondage, goes astray because, first, he accepted a materialistic explanation of life and history; secondly, he sought revenge; thirdly, he proclaimed the doctrine of class struggle.
Socialism, especially socialism, which they built in the cold of their cabinets indifferent socialist apostles, in which mediocre workers believe, and who were discovered by specified as Alfonso García Valdecasas. Socialism thus understood sees nothing in past but a game of economical forces: spirituality is abolished; religion is opium for the people; Motherland is simply a story to call the poor. That's what socialism says. There's nothing but production, an economical organization. Thus, workers must compression out all spiritual aspects of their souls so that there is neither a shadow of spirituality.
Socialism does not search to reconstruct social justice destroyed by the improper functioning of liberal states, but seeks revenge; it strives to advance into injustice even further than the liberal systems have achieved injustice.
Finally, socialism proclaims the monstrous doctrine of class struggle, proclaims the dogma that class fights are essential and naturally happen in life due to the fact that they can never be calmed down. And socialism, which has become a fair criticism of economical liberalism, has brought us after another than economical liberalism, but akin to it, a trail: disintegration, hatred, division, forgetting all ties of brotherhood and solidarity between people.
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Thus, erstwhile we, the people of our generation, open our eyes, see the planet in moral ruin, the planet torn apart by different differences; and as for us, we see Spain in moral ruin, Spain divided into all hatred and fighting. And that is why we had to cry in our hearts erstwhile we traversed the towns of this miraculous Spain; those towns where we still, under a modest shell, discover people endowed with plebeian elegance, which is not characterized by exaggerated gestures or unnecessary words; people who live on seemingly barren lands, barren externally, but who amaze us with their fertility, the exulting triumph of the vine and the congregation. While we were traversing these lands, we saw these people and we knew that they were tortured by small ducks, forgotten by all, divided, poisoned by twisted teachings, We had to think of the full nation what he sang about Cid erstwhile he wandered through the fields of Castile, driven out of Burgos: “God, what a good servant he would be if he had a good master!”
This is what we find in the movement that starts today: this rightful lord of Spain, but you specified as Saint Francis Borgia, a master who will not die. And in order not to die, he must be a master who is not at the same time a slave to the group business or class.
The movement that we make today, which is not a party, but a movement that we can call anti-party, is neither right-wing nor left-wing. Because, in fact, the right is simply a desire to preserve an economical organisation, although it is unfair, and the left is indeed a desire to destruct an economical organisation, although the demolition of it will entail the demolition of many good things. This is then adorned, both in 1 and in the other, with a number of spiritual reasons. All who perceive to us with good religion know that all these spiritual considerations are within our movement, but our movement will in no way bind its destiny to the interests of a group or class that hides below a superficial division into the right and left.
Homeland is simply a unity, created by all individuals and all classes. Homeland must not be in the hands of the strongest class, nor the best organized party. Homeland is simply a transcendent synthesis, an indivisible synthesis that has its own goals to fulfill. What we want is that present the rising movement and the state that it will make is an effective tool of power, in the service of the undisputed unity, this permanent unity, this eventual unity, whose name is Homeland.
And so we already have the full force behind our future actions and our current behaviour. We would be another organization if we announced a programme of concrete solutions. specified programs have the advantage that they are never implemented. On the another hand, erstwhile you have a lasting sense of past and life, it is he who tells us solutions in circumstantial situations, as love tells us in which situations we should argue and in which situations we should include. True love does not have a detailed programme of hugs and quarrels.
Here's what needs our complete sense. The country and the country to service it.
Let all communities of Spain, regardless of their diversity, feel united in the eventual unity of fate.
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Let the political parties disappear. Nobody was always born a associate of a political party. We are all born as household members. We're all locals. We all gotta do our job. So this is our natural unity. Since the household and the municipality and the place of work are the institutions we truly live in, why do we request an indirect and harmful tool in the form of political parties that, in order to unite us in artificial groups, begin by sharing us in our authentic environments?
We want little liberal chatter and more respect for the deep freedom of man. That's due to the fact that it's only then that man's freedom is respected, that he's respected, as we do, as a bearer of eternal values. erstwhile you respect the body shell of a soul that is capable of condemning and saving itself. Only erstwhile 1 understands a man in this way can 1 say that 1 truly respects his freedom, more, if 1 transforms this freedom, as we strive for it, into a strategy of authority, hierarchy and order.
We want everyone to feel a associate of a serious and complete community. There are many tasks to be accomplished. any should do physical work, others should do spiritual work. any teach customs and elegance. The point, however, is that it should be known from now on that there is no area for visitors or drones in the community we want.
We want individual rights not to be proclaimed, which can never be fulfilled in the case of the starving, but that all man, all associate of the political community for the sole reason that he is, is given a way of earning his own work for human, just and worthy lives.
We want the spiritual spirit, the origin of the top moments of our history, to be respected and protected as it deserves. The state should not interfere in tasks that do not belong to it or share, as it may have done due to interests another than the interests of actual religion, tasks that it should do itself.
We want Spain to regain a strong universal sense of its culture and history.
Finally, we want, if this is to be achieved in any case by violence, not back distant from violence. For who said – speaking of “all but violence!” – that the highest hierarchy of moral values is based on goodness? Who said that erstwhile individual offends our feelings, alternatively of reacting like men, we have a work to show kindness? Dialectics is good, it's true, as the first communication instrument. But there is no more acceptable dialectic than the dialectics of fists and pistols erstwhile justice or Homeland is offended.
That is what we are reasoning of the future country that we must effort to build.
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However, our movement would not be full understood if he thought it was just a way of thinking. It's not a way of thinking, it's a way of being. We shouldn't just put construction, political architecture ahead of us. We gotta embrace the full of our lives, in each of our actions, a human, deep and full attitude. This attitude is simply a spirit of service and sacrifice, an ascetic sense and a military knowing of life. So let no 1 imagine that we are encouraging you to join us to gain benefits. Let no 1 imagine that we are gathering here to defend our privileges. I would like this microphone in front of me to carry my voice to the last corners of the working houses to say yes, we wear ties, yes, you can say of us that we are masters. However, we bring the spirit of combat to just what does not interest you. We fight for dense and fair sacrifices to be imposed on many representatives of our classes, and we fight for the totalitarian state to make its goods available to the rich and the poor. And we're like this due to the fact that they've always been like this in the past of Spanish gentlemen. Thus they were able to accomplish a actual hierarchy, due to the fact that in distant lands and in themselves They knew how to look death in the eyes of their homeland and took on the most hard missions, due to the fact that they, as gentlemen, did not pay attention to anything.
The flag has been raised. Now we will defend him joyfully, poeticly. There are those who, in the face of the advancement of the revolution, believe that it is desirable to propose the most delicate solutions to unification of will; they believe that in propaganda, anything that can arouse emotions or signal a vigorous and utmost attitude! What a mistake! The nations have always been moved most by poets and woe to those who cannot emergence in the face of poesy that destroys, which promises!
In the poetic movement we rise this hot effort of Spain. We will sacrifice ourselves, renounce ourselves, and triumph will be ours. Tryumf – why am I telling you this? – which we will not be able to accomplish in the upcoming elections. W These elections vote for what seems little evil to you. However, our Spain will not come out of there and our patterns are not there. It's a murky atmosphere, already tired, like a bar after a drunken night. That's not where we belong. Yeah, I think I'm a candidate. However, I am 1 without religion and without respect. And I'm saying it now, erstwhile it can make everyone retreat their votes. I don't care. We're not going to argue with the amateurs of the miserable remnants after a filthy feast. Our place is outside, although possibly we can get through that second place. Our place is fresh air, bright night, arms on your shoulder and stars advanced above your head. Let the remainder of us proceed to play. We, on the outside watching in tension, light and certainty, sense the dawn in the joy of our souls.
Source: period.unlp.edu.ar