National Falangist Party
National Falangist Party Partido Nacional Falanxista | |
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| Abbreviation | PNF |
| Governing body | Grand Phalanx Council |
| Leader | Diego Hernandes |
| Founded | 6 October 1922 (115 years ago) |
| Banned | 5 March 1936 (102 years ago) |
| Preceded by | PFR |
| Succeeded by | JONS |
| Headquarters | Vasques Manor, Las Joquis |
| Newspaper | Face of the National Revolution |
| Student wing | Falangist University Group |
| Youth wing | Imperial Youth |
| Women's wing | Ladies of the Delepasian Nation |
| Paramilitary wing | Greenshirts |
| Ideology | Falangism |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Colours | Dark grey |
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The National Falangist Party (Pelaxian: Partido Nacional Falanxista, PNF) was a fascist monarchist political party that was prominent throughout the late Foralist and early Pascualist eras. Founded by socialist-accelerationist-turned-ultranationalist Diego Hernandes in 1922, the party took heavy inspiration from Galdo Bertocca's Caphiric Fascism and saw itself as a revolutionary vanguard for the Novorde ("New Order") under which a strong emperor would guarantee a revitalised Delepasia that would be organised under a syndicate-based industrialised economy under a municipalist federation which stood in opposition to the traditionalist conservative ideals of Fernan Pascual.
Despite the ideological differences, Hernandes and the PNF were initially supportive of the Estado Social, but in 1936, during the Second Great War, Pascual arrested and exiled Hernandes and subsequently banned the PNF, denouncing the group as being "inspired by foreign elements" and condemning the group's "exaltation of youth, the cult of direct action and force, the overbearing principle of the superiority of state political power in social life, and the tendency for organising masses behind a single leader and cult of personality" as fundamental differences between the PNF's revolutionary syndicalist nationalism and the Estado Social's conservative Catholic corporatism. In response to these condemnations, Hernandes would in 1949 criticise the regime's National Renewal Party (PRN) as a "grouping of milquetoaste moderates of all parties, bourgeois without any soul or faith in the national and revolutionary imperatives of our time, just blind obedience towards the regime".
The banning of the PNF, combined with the immense Delepasian hostility towards Caphiria, would further contribute to falangism's eventual fade into obscurity. Former members of the PNF would instead join the PRN to evade further persecution. As of 2038, there are no political parties which claim to be the successor to the ideological viewpoints of the PNF, with the only far-right group in Castadilla (successor of Delepasia) professing to be the successor to the PRN and Pascualism in general with no mention of falangism.
History
Since the start of the 20th Century, opposition towards foralism and liberalism was growing at an exponential rate in Delepasia in the form of radical strands of absolutist monarchism which in the 1920s would merge with fascist rhetoric to create what adherents called "revolutionary monarchism".
The major issue that most of these radical monarchists had for foralism, asides from the weak power of the Emperor, was that it advocated for a pre-Enlightenment form of government; much of the principles of foralism was based upon feudalism albeit with some rationalisations to adapt it for the 19th Century which in turn made it a traditionalist and reactionary ideology. Instead, they advocated for a more forward-thinking attitude and a commitment to modernity which would evolve Delepasia towards a more prosperous future in which the Delepasians would be able to determine their own national destiny under the guidance of a powerful Emperor rather than the traditional aristocratic oligarchy.
These developments led to the emergence of various so-called "restorationist" groups which sought to restore what they thought was the Emperor's rightful authority.
Development of falangism
Falangism had emerged from a group of socialists who believed that the optimal path to ensure the revolution was to hasten the necessary conditions for a revolution to occur. To them, this meant ostensibly supporting measures and policies that would quickly worsen the material conditions of the working class to the point that inevitably the only way for the working class to get any meaningful change would be through overthrowing the upper classes. These socialist accelerationists were met with criticism from multiple socialist circles, including the Workers' Party of Delepasia which they were members of until they were expelled for their views being deemed antithetical to Marxism, especially in regards to their opposition towards egalitarianism and their support of the philosophical concept of the soberhome ("overman").
Nonetheless, it was not until one of the expelled accelerationists, Diego Hernandes, made a visit to Caphiria where he happened to attend a speech held by recently-appointed Prime Minister, and creator of Caphiric Fascism, Galdo Bertocca. Bertocca's speech was on the importance of the nation and how it was more important than the importance of class struggle which happened to be a concept that Hernandes found very agreeable with and was what convinced him to abandon socialism in favour of nationalism, leading him to advocate for national syndicalism as a more palatable alternative to socialism as well as taking in elements of Delepasian exceptionalism and anti-communist rhetoric. Later, Hernandes would advocate for a municipal federation in which the only administrative divisions permitted would be autonomous municipal governments with the Emperor ensuring cooperation and harmony between municipalities.
Initially an ideology that advocated for a republican form of government, falangism quickly realigned itself towards monarchism when Hernandes made alliances with restorationist groups, taking in the idea that an absolute monarchy was the most ideal form of government. Indeed, all of the goals and aims of the restorationist groups were aligned greatly with those of falangism such as the rejection of the reactionary in favour of the revolutionary, the belief in the merits of a single ruler, and the vehement rejection of liberalism, parliamentarism, and clericalism. Ultimately, the ideology of restorationism would be integrated into falangism, giving the nascent ideology its final form.
Early years
Pascualist years
Purge of 1936
Failed postwar revival
Ideology
Hernandes's twelve points
The twelve points of Hernandes's ideological beliefs were published in 1923 in the party's newspaper the Face of the National Revolution which defined falangism as follows:
- Laicity – The institutions of the Delepasian State must be independent from the influence of the Catholic Church;
- Monarchy – Only an enlightened monarch may govern the State. The Emperor guarantees the municipal federation;
- Delepasian exceptionalism – Only the Delepasian people may be able to practice the correct spiritual, physical, and economical methods that the State provides for;
- Municipalism – Delepasia must become a federation of municipalities, which exist solely for administrative purposes, and to discourage regionalism and separatism from emerging;
- Syndicalism – The economy must be structured on the basis of syndicates united under the State;
- Delepasia City – A new imperial capital must be constructed at the heart of the State and named after the Nation;
- Nationalist allies – Foreign relations focused on friendly nationalist regimes;
- Great Pelaxian Nation – A union of all Pelaxian-speaking nations under the wise rule of the Emperor;
- Navidadianism – Racial laws to ensure the continued supremacy of the Delepasian people and other Pelaxian-based races;
- Revolutionary attitude – The State must uphold a forward-thinking attitude towards national modernity, traditions are secondary to the State;
- Youth action – The Nation's youth serves as the main vanguard of the National Revolution and of future National Greatness;
- Western Imperium – The State will serve as the hegemon of Vallos, much like how Caphiria serves as Sarpedon's hegemon.