Editing Francoism (section)

===Ideological Roots===
Francoism believes in [[File:Sec.png]] [[Authoritarianism]], [[File:Anticommunism.png]] Anti-Communism, [[File:Cball-Spain.png]] unitarian Spanish nationalism and [[File:Catheo.png]] National Catholicism [[File:Nation.png]], it sought Spain to become a monarchy to appease [[File:Reactcross.png]] [[Reactionaryism|reactionaries]] with the 1947 Law of Succession made Spain a ''de jure'' kingdom, heavily utilizing imagery and concepts that reference the Catholic Kings of Old Spain in order to praise them as national symbols of true Spanish identity (while Franco's government wasn't a monarchy itself but instead a personalized dictatorship), [[File:Strato.png]] [[Stratocracy|Militarism]], [[File:Ultranat.png]] [[Ultranationalism]],. It also believes [[File:Anti-Masonry.png]] in extreme Anti-Masonry, anti-separatism, and anti-parliamentarianism. Despite its deeply ideological governance, it advocates for a [[File:Technocracy.png]] [[Technocracy|non-ideological cabinet based on skill]]. 

Some say that it's also a Spanish variant of fascism, but this is disputable. While it had a close relationship with Italian and German fascist ideologies and shared similar aesthetics, it arguably isn't fascist itself in the traditional sense, especially after WWII ended. Rather, it became more of a spiritual predecessor for the far-right South American juntas of the '70s (Pinochet, Stroessner, Videla...) mainly due to its pioneering of the "developmental state" (a regime which synthesizes high authoritarianism, revivalist nationalism and social [[File:Ultracon.png]] ultraconservatism with broadly technocratic economic liberal policies).