Ramiro Ledesma Ramos (23 May 1905 – 29 October 1936) was a Spanish philosopher, politician, writer, essayist, and journalist, known as one of the pioneers in the introduction of Fascism in Spain.
His admiration for Nazism brought him to imitate Adolf Hitler's hairstyle.[3]
La Conquista del Estado and the Falange
In the very first issue of the La Conquista del Estado (The Conquest of the State), Ledesma published a syncretic program, which promoted statism, a political role for universities, a system of regionalisation, and a syndicalist structure for the national economy. The program's paper was in publication throughout the year, and, although a subject of debate in a CNT assembly, it did not have the intended impact.
The group remained stable, despite the fact that Ledesma left over disagreements with Primo de Rivera. He formed the group La Patria Libre, which, displaying the same favorable attitude to the left-wing trade unions, stood in disagreement with the Falange.
Ledesma remained a key figure of Francoist propaganda.[4] Though he'd issued invitations to the Catholic Church to participate in the task of the "national revolution,"[5] Ramiro Ledesma was nonetheless viewed with suspicion by the Roman Catholic Church—which had even threatened to censor his works through the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.[citation needed]
Quotes
[On himself:] "The red shirt of Garibaldi fits Ramiro Ledesma and his comrades better than the black shirt of Mussolini."
Works
Discurso a las juventudes de España (Speech to the Youth of Spain)
¿Fascismo en España? (Fascism in Spain?)
La Conquista del Estado (The Conquest of the State)
^Ledesma, Ramiro (2009) [1938]. "Discurso A Las Juventudes de Espana" [Speech to the Spanish youth]. Scribd (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 December 2023. The enterprise of building a national doctrine, a plan of historical resurgence, a strategy of struggle, effective political institutions, etc., is something that can be carried out without appealing to the Catholic sign of the Spanish, and not only that, but the Catholics must and can collaborate in it, serve it, in the name of their national dimension, in the name of their patriotism, and not in the name of anything else.
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