Historia de la derecha española

Throughout two hundred years, what we generically call the Spanish right has dominated the political evolution of the country, in such a way that we cannot understand our contemporary history without knowing its formulations, scope and characteristics. The objective of this work is none other than to offer a global study of the set of ideologies, political organizations and intellectual and social elites that make up the Spanish right from the reception of Enlightenment thought on our soil to the present. For the author, the Spanish right is not and has never been monolithic, but rather a plural reality, and, consequently, its history can only be understood as a complex synthesis of diverse traditions: in the 19th century, liberal conservatism, legitimism Carlist, authoritarian conservatism and bureaucratic conservatism, and already in the 20th century, together with the previous ones, the radical right, social Catholicism, fascism, Christian democracy and conservative liberalism, among others. During these two hundred years, these traditions have shared the same vision of reality and the same enemies, the left, but not the same projects or the same social bases, and confrontations between them have not been infrequent. In the 20th century, the dialectic of traditions will be constant between authoritarians and liberals, with the predominance of the former during the Franco regime and the superiority of the latter from 1975. Currently, we are witnessing the dialectic between conservative liberalism and identity rights, as also occurs in the rest of Western societies.