Adhesions and dissensions in Carlism (1968-1980)

Abstract

Carlism underwent a process of ideological redefinition that led ir to defend self-managemend socialism, federalsm and pollitical pluralism, among other issues. Neotraditionalist historiography has insisted that those who defended and supported this process had separated from Carlism; that infiltrations had taken place; or that the majority of the Carlists had opposed him. Likewise, neocarlisthistoiography concluded the beginning of the 1970s. With this article we intend to demonstrate that those who supported and carried out the process of ideological redefinition were the Carlist militants, old and new, adhering to their dynasty and to the socialist ideological line. In addition, we will provide quantitativa data on the Carlists adhered to the ideological redefinition. On the other hand, we defend that the dissensions did not end, far form it, atthe beginning of the 1970s. For this, we have mainly used epistolary sources collected in archives such as the National Historical Archive (AHN) or the General Archive of the University or Navarra (AGUNAV). We have wanted to focus on the adhesions and dissensions between 1968 and 1980 –and unusual crhonology- and from theindividualities, and not ruled them out of our story. These sources and trearment have provided us whit a new perspective form which to study this process, not focused or congressional processes, but seen form below, from the local and the private spheres.