Nazionalismo, antigiudaismo e propaganda. Il pensiero incompleto di Onésimo Redondo

Abstract

Onésimo Redondo Ortega, born in 1905 in the province of Valladolid and shot dead in one of the early Civil War combats, was a founding father of Spanish Fascism, although he had little following due to his incomplete ideology, which was too traditionalist for a world faced with the industrial revolution and the emergence of the masses on the political arena. In June 1931 he founded “Libertad”, a weekly magazine with very little readership and very badly off, whose mission was to use information for political propaganda purposes. A few months later, he also set up an action group, JCAH, which sought the creation of a totalitarian state based on vertical trade unionism and on the principle of unity: territorial unity, involving support of Castilian centralism and total rejection of regional separatisms; political unity, threatened by the party system, parliamentary democracy and Marxism, whose only alternative was a totalitarian state; unity of values, i.e. Catholicism as the national religion. In December 1931 JCAH merged with La Conquista del Estado creating JONS which, in early 1934, set up the JONS’ FE as a result of unification with FE. In addition to dealing with Onésimo Redondo’s biography, this article also aims at sketching the political scenario where Onésimo Redondo acted and his theoretical contribution to Spanish Fascism.

Received:  26-04-2005