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Last updated June 19, 2008.
Why Falangism? Why now?
Falangism in America should be regarded as a healthy reaction to the domination of academia, the Federal bureaucracy, and the print/broadcast media by the New Left, whose aim since 1968 has been to neuter America and reshape it into a New World analog of the European socialist democracies. A Canada writ large, if you will. Many Americans do not support such a reshaping; they correctly perceive that the loss of liberty (economic and political) would not be worth the alleged improvements in "quality of life". Unfortunately, given the nature of the current Federal government, the Republican Party has become institutionally incapable of sustained resistance to the New Left and appears to be entering a period of decline. Symptoms of this are the intramural sniping among party blocs and the often-expressed desire of many conservative pundits for a "time in the wilderness" during which the unworthy will be purged and the remnants of the party will acknowledge the "pure and righteous" fraction as its true leaders. To quote Gerard Vanderleun, it does seem as if "the Republicans, they thirst for death".
Such desires are, quite frankly, selfish and egotistical. They must be suppressed in the name of victory against those who would change this country into something the majority of Americans do not want; they must be harnessed to the cause of resistance by persuasion as best we can. The New American Falangism, much like its Spanish predecessor, must be a "big tent", including all the quarreling factions of the current Republican party as well as many millions of Americans who dislike the New Left but for one reason or another cannot bring themselves to identify themselves as Republicans. Put another way, so long as we all hate the New Left, it doesn't matter whether we are Catholic traditionalists, Christian conservatives, fiscally conservative atheists, or "hard" libertarians.
Falangism in Spain
There's a pretty good summary of the party's origins before the Civil War and its transformation under Franco into a mass party of the Nationalists on Wikipedia. Wikipedia on Falangism
Obviously, some of the features of Spanish Falangism (hereafter abbreviated FE) aren't applicable to our situation. The class struggle has largely been obviated by wide public ownership of corporations and the emerging entrepreneurial economy where people increasingly opt for forming their own businesses or working as consultants. The Catholic traditionalism of the FE is unsuited to our country, which has a large Catholic minority but also has significant Jewish, Mormon, Muslim and Protestant components. Advances in agricultural technology have changed the farm issue into a question of wasteful subsidies and their effect on foreign policy. We have no empire to look back upon in anger; rather, our one-time dependency of the Philippines is a steadfast, if occasionally erratic, ally. Still, an American Falange can point with pride to a history of great achievements on and off the battlefield as we have progressed from thirteen primitive colonies to the most powerful nation on Earth. Finally, the three "antis" of the FE are similar to the forces that the American Falange aligns itself against: resurgent Communism, violent Anarchism, and capitalism that practices rent-seeking while attempting to use the Federal Government to cripple its competition. So we might define our ideology in common and in contrast with the FE as follows:
1. Encouragement of an economy of investors and entrepreneurs in place of the obsolete class struggle;
2. Recognition of America as an essentially Judeo-Christian nation that tolerates other religions;
3. Abolition of subsidies and tariffs that protect an agricultural industry that is already the best in the world;
4. Nationalist pride in American history, especially its military history;
5. Anti-communism, anti-anarchism, anti-oligopolism.
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