En el centenario de la dictadura de Miguel Primo de Rivera. Un aniversario casi olvidado

Abstract

In this article we aim to underline the importance of the primorriverist era for Spanish history, despite the certain academic neglect of the period. Primo de Rivera's dictatorial experiment was highly relevant, as it left an anti-liberal ideological imprint that served as a unifying element for the strategy and actions of the Spanish right-wing during the Second Republic and the subsequent Franco dictatorship. This socio-political project was structured around a new nationalist, monarchical, Catholic, authoritarian and anti-liberal state. The Spanish nationalist model of the Dictatorship was unitarist and centralist, and confronted the other peripheral nationalisms accused of separatism. And along with it, a corporative project at the social level based on the joint committees, made up of employers and workers, under the tutelage of the state, which assumed the presidency of these committees. In this article we aim to underline the importance of the primorriverist era for Spanish history, despite the certain academic neglect of the period. Primo de Rivera's dictatorial experiment was highly relevant, as it left an anti-liberal ideological imprint that served as a unifying element for the strategy and actions of the Spanish right-wing during the Second Republic and the subsequent Franco dictatorship. This socio-political project was structured around a new nationalist, monarchical, Catholic, authoritarian and anti-liberal state. The Spanish nationalist model of the Dictatorship was unitarist and centralist, and confronted the other peripheral nationalisms accused of separatism. And along with it, a corporative project at the social level based on the joint committees, made up of employers and workers, under the tutelage of the state, which assumed the presidency of these committees. In this article we aim to underline the importance of the primorriverist era for Spanish history, despite the certain academic neglect of the period. Primo de Rivera's dictatorial experiment was highly relevant, as it left an anti-liberal ideological imprint that served as a unifying element for the strategy and actions of the Spanish right-wing during the Second Republic and the subsequent Franco dictatorship. This socio-political project was structured around a new nationalist, monarchical, Catholic, authoritarian and anti-liberal state. The Spanish nationalist model of the Dictatorship was unitarist and centralist, and confronted the other peripheral nationalisms accused of separatism. And along with it, a corporative project at the social level based on the joint committees, made up of employers and workers, under the tutelage of the state, which assumed the presidency of these committees.