Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: personal networks, political strategies and the making of democracy
- PART I PERSONAL NETWORKS, POLITICAL TRADITIONS AND STATE POLICIES
- 1 Unquiet hearts: the primitive world of the first political men
- 2 The burden of hopes and hatreds: ideological traditions in clandestine circumstance
- 3 Oligarchic unity and working-class divisions: a political economy of E1 Marco de Jerez
- 4 Political clans and capitalist planning: a political economy of Francoism
- PART II SYNDICAL PRACTICES, SOCIAL STRUGGLES AND POLITICAL PROTESTS
- PART III POLITICAL PRACTICES, REPRESSION AND STRATEGIC RESPONSES
- PART IV POLITICAL STRATEGIES AND THE DEMOCRATIC PROJECT
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Unquiet hearts: the primitive world of the first political men
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: personal networks, political strategies and the making of democracy
- PART I PERSONAL NETWORKS, POLITICAL TRADITIONS AND STATE POLICIES
- 1 Unquiet hearts: the primitive world of the first political men
- 2 The burden of hopes and hatreds: ideological traditions in clandestine circumstance
- 3 Oligarchic unity and working-class divisions: a political economy of E1 Marco de Jerez
- 4 Political clans and capitalist planning: a political economy of Francoism
- PART II SYNDICAL PRACTICES, SOCIAL STRUGGLES AND POLITICAL PROTESTS
- PART III POLITICAL PRACTICES, REPRESSION AND STRATEGIC RESPONSES
- PART IV POLITICAL STRATEGIES AND THE DEMOCRATIC PROJECT
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Almost all the strike leaders were in the patio of Manolo el Pelao's place. They were those natural leaders who always appear when they are needed.
Alvarez de Toledo, The StrikeThis is a story of the way people made a democracy in Spain. It begins with a handful of men in a certain region of southern Spain, and the way they grew up and lived their lives during the years of the Civil War and the terrible times which followed. These are not famous men, and you will not recognize their names. But as the story unfolds you will come to know them as some of the men who fought for democracy in this corner of the country, and who came to be leaders of the organized opposition to the dictatorship of Generalísimo Franco. Many of them are men who began the fight or, more grandly, who were present at the birth of the working-class movement. In the language of the struggle they are known as the ‘historic ones’ or, speaking with irony of the oppressed, as the ‘primitives’. In other words, these are the men who, for reasons of personal history or temperament, first came to feel uneasy in their heart and restless in their spirit.
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- Making Democracy in SpainGrass-Roots Struggle in the South, 1955–1975, pp. 13 - 28Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989