Franco SPAIN >Actually replacable birth rate (highest in europe at the time) >Sky rocketing economy growing the second fastest in the world, only slightly behind japan (This is without the marshal plan btw, spain never got that) >9th strongest country in the WORLD >Prideful people that wants spain to prosper modern sp*in >Lowest birth rate in europe, spanish people will literally cease to exist in the future >Illegal aliens everywhere larping as spaniards >stagnant economy that will never grow due to socialist policies >Depression and suicide rampant (virtually non-existant during franco-era) >irrelevant shithole
Tell me Jow Forums, why is liberal fascism bad again?
>Franco starves the already war-ravaged country with his retarded fascist autarkic policies until two decades later someone finally convinces his retarded ass to institute some economic reforms >"look how good le fascism is for the economy"
Joshua Martinez
>Replacement birthrate. I wonder why a conservative country banning contraception has high birthrates... And high ""orphan"" ratios as well.
>Sky rocketing economy growing the second fastest in the world, only slightly behind japan Protip: without any serious industry beforehand, twenty dinky factories will make your economic growth look fuckhuge. Spain's economy developed fast only because it didn't have serious industries, by all other metric they lagged behind the Iron Curtain until Franco died.
>9th strongest country in the world. Because apparently Brazil was behind fucking Spain and not, say, South Korea or Italy.
Ryder Hughes
>franco >fascist read a book nigger
Jose Adams
What Spain needs is another round of Moroccan rape. It set the country straight back then, it will sure work now. Franco approves.
>Near Seville, Nationalist soldiers raped a truckload of female prisoners, threw their bodies down a well, and paraded around town with their rifles draped with their victim's underwear. >These rapes were not the result of soldiers disobeying orders, but official Nationalist policies, with officers specifically choosing Moors to be the primary perpetrators. Advancing nationalist troops scrawled "Your children will give birth to fascists" on the walls of captured buildings, and many women taken prisoner were force fed castor oil, then paraded in public naked, while the powerful laxative did its work.
THIS OP IS A NOTORIOUS SWEDISH SCHIZOPHRENIC TROLL WHO IS OBSESSED WITH FRANCISCO FRANCO AND SPANIS POLITICS POSTING DOZENS OF FLAMEBAITS LIKE THIS ON Jow Forums EVERY DAY FOR YEARS HE IS NOT A SANE MAN HE IS POSSESSED WITH PARANOIA YOU CANNOT EXPECT A COHERENT RESPONSE FROM HIM DO NOT REPLY TO THIS THREAD AND JUST LET HIM ALONE WHAT HE NEEDS IS NOT A REPLY BUT MEDICAL TREATMENT
The Falangists were only in charge of the economy until 1942, after which point Spain entered a period of economic experimentation before finally settling on the liberal technocracy that brought them economic success. It's often forgotten that Franco himself never even made a pretense of being a fascist (or a Carlist for that matter), but rather his political brilliance was that he had the charisma and leadership ability to unite all the nationalists of various stripes behind his leadership to defeat the divided republicans, anarchists and communists. The fascist Falange were given the economy as a consolation prize in Franco's government, but he never particularly liked them and seized on the first opportunity he could (the Begoña bombing) to kick them out of all positions of influence and carry on their movement in name only.
You're correct that Francoist Spain's economic success cannot be attributed to fascism. Franco is a great example of the stability and prosperity that a benevolent, authoritarian conservative dictatorship can bring to a war-torn country, but neither his successes nor his failures should be attributed to an ideology (fascism/Falangism) that Franco was at best conciliatory and at worst hostile towards. There seems to be a meme spreading as of late that Franco "reshaped fascism in his own image" or "liberalized fascism" to create a "fascism that works", but to call his ideology fascism is to dilute the term "fascism" beyond any meaningful definition. Corporatism and autarky, both endorsed and practiced by the Falangists in power, are the essential elements of economic fascism. The technocracy that Franco adopted on the counsel of his advisors, and which ultimately brought Spain so much economic success, was vehemently opposed by the Falange.
People who hold up Francoist Spain as a triumph of fascism are admitting that "fascism" by their definition does not mean anything other than military uniforms and Roman salutes.
