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José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Anthology of Speeches and Quotes
José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera, 3rd Marquess of Estella, was a Spanish lawyer, parliamentarian, and martyr. Son of the General Miguel Primo de Rivera, the dictator of Spain from 1923-1930, Rivera founded the Falange Española - the Spanish Phalanx - in 1933. The Falange grew slowly at first, winning just .7% of the vote in the 1936 February elections, but swelled in numbers as the tyranny and violence in the Second Spanish Republic grew. Supporters of the Popular Front, the governing party at the time, waged an open campaign of violence against Spanish nationalists highlighted by the imprisonment, show-trial, and execution of José Antonio in November 1936. Subsequently, the Falange joined the insurrection against the Republic, and ascended to prominence among the Nationalist ranks. José Antonio's Falange would later merge with other right-wing parties to form the Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS , Spain's pan-nationalist party which would go on to hold power, under Francisco Franco, for nearly four decades. José Antonio himself was posthumously known as El Ausente (The Absent One) and became a revered figure among the Spanish right. First published by Ediciones Prensa Del Movimiento Madrid in 1950, a publishing house owned by the Falange, this English-language anthology of José Antonio's speeches and quotations has been out of print since the publishing house was dissolved by the Spanish state in 1984. Antelope Hill Publishing is proud to preserve this monumental work in print form.
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Published August 13, 2022
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October 1, 2025
José Antonio Primo de Rivera was the intellectual thought leader of the Falange Española a political movement in interwar Spain. The Falange would eventually emerge within the victorious coalition of nationalists in the Spanish Civil War however Primo de Rivera wouldn't live to see it having been imprisoned and executed via firing squad on the eve of the war. However he would be immortalized by Francoist Spain as a political martyr with "José Antonio ¡Presente!" being common.
Included within the quotes are critiques of capitalism, marxism, socialism, communism, and the call to unity amongst Spanish patriots.
"A dream of unity and a common task, as against the narrow particularism and retrogression of the suicidal disintegrations."
"There are only two serious ways of life: the religious way and the military..."
"The night before last, two young Falangists were murdered in Seville... One was a humble painter; the other, a poor student who had a job with the Railway Company. Had they joined the Falange to defend capitalism? What had they to do with capitalism if anything, they were rather sufferers from its defects. They joined the Falange because they realized the whole world is going through a spiritual crisis, that the harmony between the destiny of men and the destiny of communities has broken down. They were not anarchists: they were not in favor of sacrificing the destiny of the community to that of the individual; they were not advocates of any form of all absorbing totalitarian State, and therefore they did not wish to the individual destiny disappear in that of the community. They believed that the way to regain harmony between the individual and the community was this union of the syndical idea with the national, which defends itself, against the lying tongues of those who misrepresent, and against the deaf ears of those who will not hear, in the Falangist system of ideas. So, they joined the ranks of the Falange, and they went out into the streets of Seville two nights ago to put up posters advertising a legally permitted newspaper. And while they were posting the bills on a wall they were shot down in cold blood; one fell dead on the pavement, and the other died in hospital a few hours later."
Included within the quotes are critiques of capitalism, marxism, socialism, communism, and the call to unity amongst Spanish patriots.
"A dream of unity and a common task, as against the narrow particularism and retrogression of the suicidal disintegrations."
"There are only two serious ways of life: the religious way and the military..."
"The night before last, two young Falangists were murdered in Seville... One was a humble painter; the other, a poor student who had a job with the Railway Company. Had they joined the Falange to defend capitalism? What had they to do with capitalism if anything, they were rather sufferers from its defects. They joined the Falange because they realized the whole world is going through a spiritual crisis, that the harmony between the destiny of men and the destiny of communities has broken down. They were not anarchists: they were not in favor of sacrificing the destiny of the community to that of the individual; they were not advocates of any form of all absorbing totalitarian State, and therefore they did not wish to the individual destiny disappear in that of the community. They believed that the way to regain harmony between the individual and the community was this union of the syndical idea with the national, which defends itself, against the lying tongues of those who misrepresent, and against the deaf ears of those who will not hear, in the Falangist system of ideas. So, they joined the ranks of the Falange, and they went out into the streets of Seville two nights ago to put up posters advertising a legally permitted newspaper. And while they were posting the bills on a wall they were shot down in cold blood; one fell dead on the pavement, and the other died in hospital a few hours later."
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