Earlier Fascist Spain

Is there any way Spain could go Fascist in the 1920's similar to what occurred in Italy? Trying to get a stronger Spain that can actually contribute to the Axis.
 
Primo De Rivera was the dictator of Spain in the 20s. He was a right wing authoritarian, idk if you would call him a fascist though. If he could maintain army support longer and choose a successor maybe that would work.
 
Fascist... well, you'd need the Spainish Left to go along a more openly militant bent, but I don't think that's particularly unlikely. If the Communists try to seize control of the state violently rather than adopting an electoral strategy, I could see the government conceding to martial law under a military junta which would take on Fascist tones and economic policies after seeing their successful appearance in Italy.
 
Primo De Rivera was the dictator of Spain in the 20s. He was a right wing authoritarian, idk if you would call him a fascist though. If he could maintain army support longer and choose a successor maybe that would work.

Wasn’t he the guy who, upon being asked if he forgave his enemies, answered “I have none. I’ve had them all shot.”?
 
one of the last threads on Axis Spain suggested that the Nationalist coup succeeds in 1936, and one of the effects would be that Spanish treasury is not sent to USSR. while that would not make Spain a military superpower they would be relatively wealthy (fourth or fifth largest gold reserves in the world.)

to continue in the same vein, have Gen. Jose Sanjurjo transported safely to lead the coup, not a guarantee that they join (any) Axis but Gen. Franco was certainly known as the most cautious of the coup leaders.
 

Ian_W

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Is there any way Spain could go Fascist in the 1920's similar to what occurred in Italy? Trying to get a stronger Spain that can actually contribute to the Axis.

If you want a stronger Spain, you certainly don't want to hire fascists to run that country.

Being all about the Glory of the State, they will spend resources on vanity projects that look good.
 
If you want a stronger Spain, you certainly don't want to hire fascists to run that country.

Being all about the Glory of the State, they will spend resources on vanity projects that look good.

It will be stronger inasmuch as it avoids the ravages of the civil war.
 
Primo De Rivera was the dictator of Spain in the 20s. He was a right wing authoritarian, idk if you would call him a fascist though. If he could maintain army support longer and choose a successor maybe that would work.
I think he's close enough to fascism to call him a fascist. Primo De Rivera's corporatist economics were a typical fascist economic platform. Not all corporatist states are fascist, but all fascist states have had some variant of corporatist economics. Fascists claimed to transcend class conflict and gain support from trade unions by promising a syndicalist, "class collaborationist" system where labor and capital would both be represented as part of their respective industries. The fascist leader with absolute power mediates between them, and in practice labor normally lost. For example, the NSDAP banned independent trade unions, but created a "German Labor Front" to represent workers and owners.
 
Jorge Guillén, one of Spain's great poets and an exile from Franco, wrote of the Spanish poets of the 1920's (the "generation of '27" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_of_'27):

"Some dull-witted souls have called the generation of Salinas and his friends "The Generation of the Dictatorship," when not one of them participated in any way in the regime of Primo de Rivera, a dictatorship so old-fashioned that it required no concessions in the conduct or the writings of that gemeration..." https://www.google.com/search?q="so...zdPcAhUBXq0KHQ4QDu8Q_AUIECgB&biw=1877&bih=763
 
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