Federalismo e socialismo autogestionario : la carificación carlista durante la Transizione

As early as the late Fifties, Carlos Hugo promoted an ideological revision whereby Carlist switched from their well-known tradicionalist position to become an original component of the Spanish left supporting non-Marxist, federative and self-managed Socialism. This process culminated in the early Seventies, when the newly-established Partido Carlista initially joined the Junta Democrática de España, and then the Plataforma de Convergencia Democrática. Opposition to Francoism, to capitalism and to Madrid centralism where the issues maintained in succession by Carlos Hugo and his followers, who aimed at merging the old foralist battles of early Carlism and a new socialism, far from the Soviet model. However, this attempt proved a failure and yielded poor poll results, since not all Carlist had accepted this radical positioning at the extreme left.