La Revolucion Pasiva De Franco Jose Luis Villac... -

Unlike Nazi or Fascist regimes where the State was a tool for a movement, Francoism is presented as "estatalista"—an effort to save the State and keep it in the same historical hands through a sovereign, constituent dictatorship. Three Dimensions of the Passive Revolution

In (2022), philosopher José Luis Villacañas Berlanga reinterprets Francisco Franco’s 40-year regime not just as an authoritarian dictatorship, but as a systematic "passive revolution" that fundamentally reshaped Spanish society from the top down. Core Themes & Theoretical Framework La Revolucion Pasiva De Franco Jose Luis Villac...

La revolución pasiva de Franco by José Luis Villacañas | eBook Unlike Nazi or Fascist regimes where the State

The implementation of state-oriented capitalism, heavily influenced by German ordoliberalism during the desarrollismo (development) phase. New laws that built a civil state apparatus

New laws that built a civil state apparatus.

A "genocide of the political" where the republican identity was systematically destroyed and replaced by a culture that lacked historical continuity with previous democratic traditions. The Transition & Legacy

Using Antonio Gramsci's concept, the author argues that Francoism wasn't a static repression but an adaptive process that modernized the State while maintaining traditional power structures and preventing a genuine "active" revolution from the people.