The article is devoted to the transformations of the political ideology of Francoism in modern Spain. The author divides the historical evolution of “Francoism after Franco” into two stages: neo-Francoism and post-Francoism. NeoFrancoism is formed during the times of democratic transit, post-Francoism arises as a result of political innovations implemented by the two social-democratic Governments of J.L. Rodriguez Zapatero and P. Sanchez and is associated with a negative attitude to “historical …
Read moreThe article is devoted to the transformations of the political ideology of Francoism in modern Spain. The author divides the historical evolution of “Francoism after Franco” into two stages: neo-Francoism and post-Francoism. NeoFrancoism is formed during the times of democratic transit, post-Francoism arises as a result of political innovations implemented by the two social-democratic Governments of J.L. Rodriguez Zapatero and P. Sanchez and is associated with a negative attitude to “historical memory” and “democratic memory”, respectively. Analyzing the internal structure of neo-Francoism, the author decomposes it into three types in accordance with a more general typology of conservatism by A.A. Galkin and P.Yu. Rakhshmir: the right wing, centrist neo-Francoism and the left wing. The internal structure of post-Francoism is still being formed, therefore it is revealed in less defined concepts although on the basis of the same classical triad: the right flank, the center and the left flank. Comparing the “Francoisms”, the author shows that Francoism under Franco was a closed ideology and had as its main goal the destruction of opponents ; neo-Francoism was a semi-open ideology and preferred to discuss with opponents. In this context, the fundamental difference between post-Francoism and other Francoisms is its open nature and publicly articulated invitation for all kinds of opponents from across the political and ideological spectrum to mutually beneficial cooperation for the progressive development of the country, thanks to which not only neo-Francoists, but also anti-Francoists appear in the logic of its nascent discourse today, which allows the author to add the prefix “post” to it.