The Forever Nonexistent “Second” Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), it needs to be interestingly stressed, was not a simplistic event, as is usually depicted; it was not simply the often glorified Loyalists (AKA Communists) v. the always demonized, hated Fascists; the forces of the Left included Anarchists and others; the forces opposed to the Loyalists had also included the Carlistas, orthodox Roman Catholics, who only wanted a monarchical government, not any Fascist regime, to exist as a result of the conclusion of that terrible conflict. 

Few people today, if any, know that there were about a thousand times more rightwing Carlists in Franco’s prisons than there ever were actual, hardcore Communists; even less people know that, prior to the 20th century, the Basques were almost totally politically rightwing in that Spanish conservatism had favored decentralization, while liberalism had stressed the need for continuing a centralized nation-state for the sake of modern, European, political republicanism. 

George Orwell, in presenting another aspect to this conflict of the 1930s in his Homage to Catalonia, noted how the Anarchists had been deliberately betrayed by the Communists in terms of getting their orders from Moscow; many Anarchists were, thus, murdered by the Soviet-backed Leftists.  This ought to illustrate just how considerably complex this historical event really was, contrary to much popularized nonsense, often shallow or thoughtless, portraying stiff stereotypes.  [It is not known, by many people today, that the then Spanish Republic’s entire gold reserve, at that time, had been, in fact, all shipped to the Soviet Union; of course, it will never be returned to Spain.]

However, the person chosen, long after the war, by the dictator Francisco Franco to sit upon the restored, though constitutionally-oriented, throne, meaning Juan Carlos, was a man truly hated by the Carlists; they rather intimately knew that this terrible decision would bring eventual secularistic, socialist-directed ruin to Spain, which has, in fact, occurred with, e.g., its demographic disaster leading to the eventual self-extermination of native Spaniards.

It was really known, as a sort of open secret, that Carlos did not eagerly want to actually maintain any monarchical government; he, in effect, wanted to just basically go along with the European trend toward republicanism, meaning what became, of course, the Spanish social-democratic regime of today that eagerly promotes abortion, hedonism, nihilism, etc.

So, it is not really surprising that the men of the traditionalist right, therefore, had really hated Franco’s Fascist regime even more than the Leftists had!  But, this important historical fact must also go down the aforementioned Orwellian memory hole.  In any event, there was no second chance for Spain to redeem its older heritage, through a second civil war, by which Carlists had once greatly hoped to successfully reverse the evil trend toward the kind of vile and degenerate country that, sadly, exists today. 

Perhaps, there can be and are much worse things than just fighting a war; thus, it is known that thousands of times more Spaniards have, in fact, died through abortions than have ever died in war.

There are two, basic ultimate ways to look at the purposes of warfare, inclusive of what did not happen regarding the subject of this article.  Perhaps, these two finally conflicting ways can best be perceived through motion picture films.  The 1960’s depressing and disgusting war movie, Anzio, starring Robert Mitchum, as the chief protagonist, shows how the character portrayed had initially avoided taking up arms largely because he preferred, in general, being a spectator to violence.

But, he eventually decides to fight and kill the Nazis; this is after, however, profoundly wondering, throughout the bulk of this flick, why men do really fight wars, his character comes to the final and definitely nihilistic conclusion, even considering that this was World War II, that men simply enjoy the pleasure of killing each other.  No higher reason or purpose is ever found for conducting war. 

And, pacifists do, finally, take their odd cue from nihilists as to a rejection of self-defense, meaning mainly in the minds of extreme pacifists who don’t even have any mercy for the victims of aggression, in terms of the predictable outcomes in the real world of violence.

This negative view, as seen in Anzio, can be quite easily contrasted with a genuine cinematic masterpiece, produced in the 1950s, in terms of its broad thematic content, as to why warfare has often been and, moreover, can still be done for legitimately good and moral reasons, (according to what is referred to as the just war standards pertaining to war); the movie is entitled: The 300 Spartans.  Q. E. D.