Sunday, September 9, 2018

Right Wing Land Reform and Privatization

When Land Reform is not Reform

This is part of a series:
Parallels between Falangists and US Fascists

EMAD Leaders, Gullible Followers

The Falangists were like other Fascists in that the leaders were Exploitive, Manipulative, Amoral and Deceptive (EMAD), and their followers were either similar or Authoritarian types. In order to explain Fascism in General I've been comparing the plank of Falange to other Fascists including modern ones.

Sounding like Any Other Political Party

The 26 point Falange party plank included things that sounded like the kind of thing any political party or revolutionary party might embrace, as did that of the Nazis or Mussolini's Fascists. Some of this was to gaslight their followers and get them to abandon other movements and join theirs. But Some of the program, indeed sounded like what any party would promote. During the 30s the vast masses were concerned with employment, eating, health-care and survival. Anyone trying to get elected had to have a program for dealing with these things.

Fascism is a Response to Capitalism's Failure

Moreover freebooting capitalism had failed massively, so very few people were willing to defend capitalism. Fascism was a response to failure, and people who preferred to take advantage of failure. Fascism posed as a third way, between capitalism and socialism. On the stump or while fighting, they had slogans that articulated an ideal future state.

The Fascist Twist

But every time there was a fascist twist which turned the meaning of what they were doing from what outsiders might understand, and even support, to something dark and twisted. This was the case with their version of syndicalism:

(see Right Wing Syndicalism and Corporatism)

Falangist Version of Land Reform

The Falangist version of Land Reform was enumerated in plank items 17-22 as follows:

D. Land Reforms
17. Demand to raise the standards of the countryside through reforms.
18. Assuring a minimum remuneration to all agricultural producers
Restore renumerations “paid to the cities for intellectual and commercial services.”
Using a “national system of agricultural credit which will lend money to farmers at low interest against the guarantee of their property and crops”
while “redeeming them from usury and local tyrants
Farmer and shepherd education in improved land use
Providing Land use and Marketing support
Tariff protections
Reclamation and land redistribution
19. Encourage Family Farms and Worker syndicalization.
20. Reforestation and Improved Livestock through Breeding programs.
21. Expropriation of land acquired or used illegally
22. Rebuild Communal Patrimony

Pretending to Float All Boats

Demand to raise the standards of the countryside through reforms.

Minimum Renumeration

Assuring a minimum remuneration to all agricultural producers (price guarantees for produce)

Redistributing Wealth to the Countryside from Cities

The Falangists basically cut off funds paid from taxes on the countryside to the cities

Restore renumerations “paid to the cities for intellectual and commercial services” to the Countryside

Nationalizing the Credit System

Using a “national system of agricultural credit which will lend money to farmers at low interest against the guarantee of their property and crops”

Usury and Local Tyrants

while “redeeming them from usury and local tyrants”

Education on Improved Land Use

Farmer and shepherd education in improved land use

Marketing Support

Providing Land use and Marketing support

Tariff protections

Reclamation and land redistribution

Encourage Family Farms and Worker syndicalization.

Breeding Programs

Reforestation and Improved Livestock through Breeding programs.

Expropriation

Expropriation of land acquired or used illegally

The State will have powers to confiscate without compensation any land, the ownership of which has been acquired or enjoyed illicitly.

Communal Patrimony

Rebuild Communal Patrimony

A priority of the National-Syndicalist State will be to return to villages their communal property.

References and further reading

This version of the plank is a clearer translation than the one on the other website
http://spartacus-educational.com/SPfalange.htm

I'm also referencing books, articles from things I wrote a about this on my previous blog "Holte's Corner" between 2004 and 2006:

The conscious misuse of Myth, Georges Sorel and Fascism
https://fraughtwithperil.com/cholte/2004/11/29/the-conscious-misuse-of-myth-georges-sorel-and-fascism/
Georges Sorel, the Power of Myth (Review)
https://fraughtwithperil.com/cholte/2006/09/10/georges-sorel-the-power-of-myth/
The Party Program is at this webpage:
https://www.americanblackshirts.com/single-post/2015/03/04/The-Twenty-Six-Point-Program-of-the-Falange
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/falange

From My own writings

The conscious misuse of Myth, Georges Sorel and Fascism
https://fraughtwithperil.com/cholte/2004/11/29/the-conscious-misuse-of-myth-georges-sorel-and-fascism/
Georges Sorel, the Power of Myth (Review)
https://fraughtwithperil.com/cholte/2006/09/10/georges-sorel-the-power-of-myth/
https://fraughtwithperil.com/cholte/2006/12/14/strategy-and-tactics-myth-and-reality/
https://fraughtwithperil.com/cholte/2011/02/20/laying-down-the-gauntlet/

Used in this Post

https://www.americanblackshirts.com/single-post/2015/03/04/The-Twenty-Six-Point-Program-of-the-Falange
http://holtesthoughts.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-life-of-garcia-lorca-and-fascist.html quotes taken in August 2018. I also have them in several of my books and from other webpages.
https://www.amazon.com/Federico-Garcia-Lorca-Ian-Gibson/dp/0571142249
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falangism
Quote taken from book;
"National Identities and Socio-Political Changes in Latin America" By Antonio Gomez-Moriana, Mercedes Duran-Cogan page 112
https://books.google.com/books?id=PWjhAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=One+Nation,+One+Faith,+One+people+Spain&source=bl&ots=wSBJa8Qato&sig=aEsGLSukCZr_2PQE8FwjahO-CKE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjp1YGT09XcAhVNx1kKHW6bC0kQ6AEwB3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=One%20Nation%2C%20One%20Faith%2C%20One%20people%20Spain&f=false
Related Articles:
Ellerman:
https://cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/ellerman_ct_vol5_iss3_4.pdf

This is part of a series. So even after I post this it will remain a draft until the series is completed.

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