Federalismo e socialismo autogestionario. La clarificación carlista durante la Transizione

Abstract

Federalism and self-managed Socialism. The Carlist clarificación during the Transition

As early as the late Fifties, Carlo Hugo promoted an ideological revision whereby Carlists switched from their well-known traditionalist positions to become an original component of the Spanish left supporting non-Marxist, federative and self-managed Socialism. This process culminated in the early Seventies, when the newly-established Partido Carlista initially joined the Junta Democrática de España and then the Plataforma de Convergencia Democrática. Opposition to Francoism, to capitalism and to Madrid centralism where the issues maintained in succession by Carlos Hugo and his followers, who aimed at merging the old foralist battles of early Carlism and a new socialism, far from the Soviet model. However, this attempt proved a failure and yielded poor poll results, since not all Carlists had accepted this radical positioning at the extreme left.