radition and Freedom (the Manifiesto de los Persas and its Traditionalist Recovery)

Abstract

This article begins by analysing some of the more significant aspects of the political philosophy underpinning the Manifiesto de los Persas (1814). It then makes an at­tempt to uncover the motives of those Spa­nish traditionalist writers in resuscitating this manifesto in the 1950s. Members of this group were successful in their efforts to establish an anti-liberal, authoritarian and traditional monarchy in Spain. These efforts faithfully extend a line of thought emanating from the Manifesto of 1814.