José Antonio Primo de Rivera

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José Antonio Primo de Rivera was born in Madrid Spain on April 24, 1903. He grew up in a healthy and loving family environment. He was the son of General Miguel Primo de Rivera who was the Leader of Spain from 1923 to 1930. José Antonio studied law in Madrid where he became a lawyer. Strongly influenced by the Italian Fascist Party he set about creating an organization similar in a lot of ways to the Fascists but more uniquely Spanish in nature. On October 29th 1933 at the "Theatre of Play" of Madrid, he gave a speech where he formed the Spanish Falange.

Another group that was very close to the Spanish Falange at the time were the National Syndicalists (JONS) which was headed by Ledesma Ramos. In February 1934 the two organizations joined to become one (FE-JONS) and José Antonio was made it's leader.



In early 1936 José Antonio was elected to the Spanish Parliament known as the Cortes. Being a legally elected official mattered little to the Leftist ruled government in Madrid, to them José Antonio was a symbol of everything they feared, Patriotism, Discipline, Morality and Spirituality. There was no way they were going to allow the Falangists to gain anykind of power in Spain, legitament or otherwise.

When word got back to the Spanish government that Falangists were beginning to arm themselves, they set about arresting the leaders of the Falangist movement throughout Spain, including José Antonio. The so called Republican government never did a thing to stop the Communists and Socialists from arming themselves or the criminal acts perpetrated by these two groups.

The Spanish Falange was declared an illegal organization and on June 5th 1936 José Antonio was incarcerated in Alicante Prison. The Falange grew into one of the most powerful movements in Spain while José Antonio was in prison.

On November 18th 1936, José Antonio wrote, "Condemened to death yesterday, I pray God that if He does not still spare me from coming to that last trial, He may preserve in me up to the end the seemly submission with which I contemplate it, and that in judging my soul He may apply to it not the measure of my merits but that of His infinite Mercy''. Two days later on November 20th, José Antonio was placed up against a wall, and with Prayer on his lips and forgiveness for the enemies about to execute him, he was murdered.

José Antonio died like a Man, he died a Hero, a Martyr and a Saint. It is no wonder that in this day and age of immorality and anti-heroes, that José Antonio stands out like a Beacon of Light with an ever growing popularity and following throughout, not only Spain but the rest of the World as well.

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The Sayings of José Antonio

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"The Nation is a complete unity, wherein all individuals and all classes are integrated. The Nation is a transcendent and individual synthesis with ends of its own to achieve; and the state which it brings forth, shall be the efficient, authoritarian instrument which serves that unchallengeable, permanent, irrevocable unity which is called the Nation."


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"We want less liberal verbiage and more respect for the deep liberty of man. Man's liberty is respected only when he is regarded as the corporeal envelope of a soul capable of damnation or of salvation. Only when he is thus regarded can his liberty be said to be truly respected, and still more so if that liberty is combined, as we demand, in a system of authority, hierarchy and order."


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"We want all to feel they are members of a serious, complete community. In other words, there are clearly many kinds of tasks to be performed: some manual, some mental, others in the educational or social or cultural fields; but in a community such as we seek, let it be stated there must be no passengers and no drones."


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"We want no song about individual rights of the kind that can never be enforced in the homes of the hungry. Instead, let every man, every member of the political community, simply by being a member of it, be given the means of earning a just and decent human livelihood by his work."


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"We want the religious spirit, which is the keystone in the finest arches of our history, to be respected and supported as it deserves; but that does not mean that the State should either interfere in functions which do not belong to it."


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"The Falange regards man as a combination of a body and a soul; that is, as capapable of an eternal destiny and as the bearer of eternal values. Thus the maximum respect is paid to human dignity, to man's integrity and his freedom. But that profound freedom entitles nobody to undermine the foundations of public social life."


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"The Falange cannot regard life as a merely interplay of economic factors. It rejects the materialistic interpretation of history. The spiritual has been and is the mainspring in the life of men and peoples.


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"All revolutions have hitherto been incomplete, in that none of them has served both the national idea of the Nation and the idea of Social Justice at once. We (the Falange) combine those two things: the Nation and Social Justice, and upon those two unshakable principles we are categorically resolved to make our revolution."


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"We realize that a nation is not merely the attractive force of the soil on which we are born, it is not that direct sentimental emotion that we all feel in the presence of our own earth, but a nation is a unity of destiny in the world order, it is a plane to which a people has risen when it fulfils a universal mission in history."


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"Work is the best claim to civil dignity. Nothing can deserve more attention from the State than the dignity and welfare of workers."


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"The first purpose of wealth is to improve the living conditions of the many, not to sacrifice the many to the luxury and profit of the few."


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"Socialism proclaims the monstrous dogma of class warfare . It proclaims the dogma that warfare between the classes is indispensable and occurs naturally in life, because there can never be any appeasing agent. Thus socialism, which started out as a just critique of economic liberalism, has brought us by a different route to the same pass as economic liberalism: disunity, hatred, seperation, forgetfulness of every bond of brotherhood and solidarity between men."


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"The Falange has certain coincidences with Fascism in essential points which are of universal validity; but it is daily acquiring a clearer outline of it's own, and is convinced that by following this path and no other it will find its most fruitful possibilities of development."