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Social policy under General Franco was harnessed to authoritarian views on ‘organic’ solidarity in the pursuit of national ascendancy and traditional catholicism. His state would be exclusionary, embodying a ‘dictatorship of the bourgeoisie’ (Esteban, 1976). Throughout the regime, the Generalissimo saw the destiny of Spain as a Manichaean struggle between ‘red’ and ‘black’: he exploited clientelism to privilege ‘lo nuestro’ (‘our own’ — his ‘black’ nationalist supporters), extirpating any political participation of old ‘red’ opponents. Welfare policies had a secondary agenda, wherever possible, of excluding the vanquished.1 |
