De "Izquierda Unida" A "Carlismo Reunido"

I have been asked about my reference to Carlism has having become, in part, a section of Spanish Left. When Don Carlos-Hugo de Borbón-Parma tacked left in the late 1960s after having been rebuffed by Franco, he adopted autogestion. He may have done so under Titoist influence, but the fact remains that autogestion is a lot bigger than that, and still exists while Titoism does not.

Furthermore, it is not a million miles from Catholic Social Teaching in general and from the Distributist outworking of that tradition in particular. Like classical Carlism, the Alternative Left strand also strongly affirms Spain's character as at once a multinational and a unitary state, and her ties to her former colonies.

Depending on how you define federalismo and the notoriously elusive socialismo (traditionally used in Britain and the Old Commonwealth, and at least of, even if not necessarily by, sections of the American Democratic Party resurgent this day, to mean a more than passable impersonation of Christian Democracy), then Libertad, Socialismo, Federalismo, Autogestión turns out to be fully compatible, and more than compatible, with Dios, Patria, Fueros, Rey.

Just so long as the emphasis, in identifying and applying all seven of the others, is firmly on Dios, properly identified and properly applied.