Falange

[Everyday Anarchy]

While reading the Wikipedia page on the Durruti Column, I saw the word "falange" and decided to look it up.

I'm having trouble understanding exactly what falangists believe. I know they are "anti-communism, anti-anarchism, and anti-capitalism."
Is falange just another term for Third Positionists?

[Labor Shall Rule]

Originally posted by Everyday [email protected] 04, 2007 01:11 am
While reading the Wikipedia page on the Durruti Column, I saw the word "falange" and decided to look it up.

I'm having trouble understanding exactly what falangists believe. I know they are "anti-communism, anti-anarchism, and anti-capitalism."
Is falange just another term for Third Positionists?
It is the ideology of fascists tied specifically to the Catholic Church. Franco adopted it as the driving force of his dictatorship.

[black magick hustla]

Its a very spanish manifestation of fascism that is heavily tied to the catholic church.

Same deal than other "fascisms"--corporatism, national syndicalism, petty bourgeois leadership etc

[Everyday Anarchy]

Ah, ok. Thank you all for your answers.

[Dimentio]

It was a group composed of Spanish reactionaries (monarchists) and Spanish National-Syndicalists (fascists).

[Demogorgon]

People have explained it excellently, but you may also be interested to know that it has also had a degree of influence in South America.

[black magick hustla]

Originally posted by [email protected] 04, 2007 01:59 am
People have explained it excellently, but you may also be interested to know that it has also had a degree of influence in South America.
It had a great deal of influence in Mexico.

The Union Sinarquista (Sinarchist Union) was made up of clerical fascist reactionaries and they were able to rally as much as 500 000 members. They where behind the Cristero Wars against the heavily anticlerical president Plutarco Elias Calles. Many of them where falangists painted with the colors of the mexican flag.

There has been some controvery whether if desdendants of Sinarquistas are behind the surge of far right politics in Mexico. There has been some talk about a secret organization called El Yunque that is behind a lot of the panistas.

[Eleftherios]

There are even a couple of Falangist parties here in America:

http://www.falangist.com/

http://www.warbaby.com/dh2k/html/p-falangist.html

EDIT: There's even one in Germany:

http://www.cfpd.de/glaube.htm