La Revolucion Pasiva De Franco | Jose Luis Villac...

New laws that built a civil state apparatus.

Villacañas draws on Machiavelli’s The Prince and The Life of Castruccio Castracani to describe Franco as a condotiero —a warlord or technician of power driven by a "void of interiority" and relentless ambition. La Revolucion Pasiva De Franco Jose Luis Villac...

The book concludes by analyzing the Spanish Transition through Machiavelli's comedy The Mandrake , questioning how these "passive" structures survived into democracy. Villacañas suggests that the regime's greatest "triumph" was the destruction of the republican popular culture, creating a "fragile capitalism" and a middle-class government that still defines Spain today. New laws that built a civil state apparatus