National Falangist Party: Difference between revisions

| native_name      = Partido Nacional Falangista

| leader2_name    = [[Diego Hernandez]]

| headquarters    = [[Vasquez Manor]], [[Las Joquis]]

The '''National Falangist Party''' ([[Castadillaan Pelaxian|Pelaxian]]: ''Partido Nacional Falangista'', '''PNF''') was a {{wp|fascism|fascist}} {{wp|monarchism|monarchist}} political party that was prominent throughout the late [[Delepasian Confederation|Foralist]] and early [[Estado Social (Castadilla)|Pascualist]] eras. Founded by socialist-accelerationist-turned-ultranationalist [[Diego Hernandez]] in 1922, the party took heavy inspiration from [[Galdo Bertocca]]'s [[Caphiric Fascism]] and saw itself as a revolutionary vanguard for the ''Nuevorden'' ("New Order") under which a strong [[Castadillaan Emperor|emperor]] would guarantee a revitalised Delepasia that would be organised under a {{wp|national syndicalism|syndicate}}-based industrialised economy under a [[municipalism|municipalist]] federation which stood in opposition to the traditionalist conservative ideals of [[Fernando Pascual]].

Despite the ideological differences, Hernandez and the PNF were initially supportive of the ''Estado Social'', but in 1936, during the [[Second Great War]], Pascual arrested and exiled Hernandez 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, Hernandez 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".

[[File:Plinio_Salgado_revista_Anauê.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Diego Hernandez]] in 1932.]]

Falangism had emerged from a group of {{wp|socialism|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 {{wp|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 {{wp|Marxism}}, especially in regards to their opposition towards {{wp|egalitarianism}} and their support of the philosophical concept of the ''superhombre'' ("overman").

Nonetheless, it was not until one of the expelled accelerationists, [[Diego Hernandez]], 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 Hernandez found very agreeable with and was what convinced him to abandon socialism in favour of nationalism, leading him to advocate for {{wp|national syndicalism}} as a more palatable alternative to socialism as well as taking in elements of [[Delepasian exceptionalism]] and {{wp|anti-commmunism|anti-communist}} rhetoric. Later, Hernandez would advocate for a [[municipalism|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 Hernandez 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 {{wp|anti-liberalism|liberalism}}, {{wp|Parliamentary system#Disadvantages|parliamentarism}}, and {{wp|Anti-clericalism|clericalism}}. Ultimately, the ideology of restorationism would be integrated into falangism, giving the nascent ideology its final form.

===Hernandez's twelve points===