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- Title
Transición y violencia política: la centralidad de un fenómeno. El caso del PSOE.
- Authors
Aparicio Rodríguez, Víctor
- Abstract
The enormous weight achieved by political violence during the Transition to democracy in Spain is indisputable. Beyond the specific figures –714 casualties, according to Sophie Baby–, we believe that it is necessary to delve into the analysis of the impact that this phenomenon had on the evolution of the democratization process itself. We think that political violence, as a practice, as an imaginary, and as a symbolic element, permeated the entire “social body” and imbued the discourse, action, and behavior of the political actors involved in the process. Thus, we conclude, it acquired an extremely transcendent centrality and constituted a fundamental “political actor.” This article aims to demonstrate the validity of the above assertions by studying the influence of political violence on the theoretical conceptions and approaches, discourses, and concrete political practices of socialist political culture, led by a key organization during the referred period, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party. Since violence influenced some aspects of the political behavior of the PSOE, a leading actor in the process of change, consequently, it also conditioned the Transition process as a whole.
- Subjects
POLITICAL violence; POLITICAL culture; POLITICAL persecution; VIOLENCE; SOCIALISM
- Publication
Vínculos de Historia, 2024, Issue 13, p396
- ISSN
2254-6901
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18239/vdh_2024.13.20