It is necessary for Spaniards to abandon the old liberal prejudices and take a survey of Europe in order to analyze contemporary history. We do not belong to a world of our own, as distinct from Europe, even though we have our own characteristics and spiritual reserves. The happiness promised by the French revolution became nothing but barter business, competition, low wages and mass insecurity. Wealth did not go hand in hand with equitable distribution. The important part of humanity was prey to misery.
Freedom is impossible as long as bondage and want exist.
Cleverly exploited Marxist slogans caught on with the masses because they deceitfully promised a change in the justice of the pressing situation. The liberal world, in giving adult suffrage, made them conscious of their own strength. Then the revolutionary process, accelerated by various crises, started. During the last war Russian demobilization led to a situation in which communism seized power and established a barbarian dictatorship of the proletariat. A similar phenomenon manifested itself in Italy after the war, but Mussolini's genius instilled all just and human elements interested in the Italian revolution into the Fascistis' aims.