Inmovilismo político y cambio social en los años sesenta

Abstract

Political ultraconservatism subsists on the will of the dictator and the group which holds political power to continue exercising that power in an exclusive way. They practice ultraconservatism against the citizens' will and consider any concession which is granted to be a loss of their own oligarchic power. This exposed idea was exactly that of the Franco's regime. A dictatorship regime has an undoubted institutional and historical inability to become a democratic regime. Nevertheless, the structure and the dynamics of Spanish society were very close to those of the European sphere. A distancing from the European countries was due solely to the lower economic and cultural levels attained. For this reason, the Francoist regime supporting economic growth and modernization. However, Francoism was not able to translate economic and social modernization into solid support, nor foment consensus among all sectors of society. Instead, the opposite happened and the limitations and illegitimate origins of Franco's regime were exposed by social modernization. In short, Spanish society aspired to having a democratic regime, which would bring it into line with the European countries around it.