tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post5720767756597040521..comments2024-03-16T01:00:19.876-05:00Comments on The Mad Monarchist: Monarchism and the Corporate State in PortugalMadMonarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-57562046918768137092015-09-05T08:34:32.322-05:002015-09-05T08:34:32.322-05:00This is a great post. Thanks for looking at this i...This is a great post. Thanks for looking at this issue.Matthew Celestinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02874430461346560520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-21091322133043613152013-09-15T13:42:47.322-05:002013-09-15T13:42:47.322-05:00Being a Portuguese monarchist myself i thoroughly ...Being a Portuguese monarchist myself i thoroughly enjoyed reading your post and agree with your views on Salazar, I admire him and his efforts to integrate the Portuguese overseas provinces administratively and economically to the mainland,I think if someone could have rescued Portugal it would have been him, with that i think its important to mention the more unfavorable things he did like state Censorship, PIDE- the political police, rigging votes, torturing and assassination of people who opposed the regime.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> daniel limahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00446111649335684718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-73610050893386278272013-09-13T19:38:25.983-05:002013-09-13T19:38:25.983-05:00Such a shame that men like Dollfuss, Franco, and S... Such a shame that men like Dollfuss, Franco, and Salazar are all thrown in with the Nazis, and simply called "fascists". These states are overlooked by conservatives and Catholics as embarrassing, and the left simply denounces them as backward despots (I would say evil, but the left doesn't really believe in good or evil). These men stood for tradition and were willing to fight for their values. While only Franco was able to restore the monarchy of his country, they were all great statesmen, and it is a shame to see their names dragged through the muck when men like Lenin and Che Guevara are admired by our culture. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774194632030946890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-3669800699097306782013-09-13T18:55:22.288-05:002013-09-13T18:55:22.288-05:00I totally agree with regards to the very unfortuna...I totally agree with regards to the very unfortunate fall of Portugal. Really, the world was struck with a double-blow when the Brazillian and Portuguese monarchies were struck off within 35 years of each other. <br /><br />Brazil was a particularly bizarre case because the monarch was not only expanding the Brazilian economy at record speed and tripling the per capita income of his subjects, but was also very popular with his people when he was overthrown by the military.<br /><br />Portugal was just as bad, though, as the usual confusing republican logic came into play.<br /> <br />"Everything negative that is happening to our country now is the sole fault of the monarch and nobody else. Republicanism will instantly remedy our problems"<br /><br />The monarchy, therefore, which had over the course of hundreds of years seen Portugal ascend to a position of global preeminence and guided it to victory against the threat of destruction by Napoleon, was in just one week dashed by the eternal blessing of republicanism and, of course, the new government was naturally decided to be best-led by those who had professed a desire to see the 'dictatorship' of the constitutional monarchy destroyed in the first place. <br /><br />It truly is a terrible, circular joke. The deposition of the monarchy in 1910 wasn't even relevant to the main goals of the revolutionaries - it was almost an afterthought, as if they thought of it as an inconvenient, like destroying an Edwardian glass window while renovating a house simply because it is 'Old-fashioned'.<br /><br />It certainly didn't get them anywhere. The Republic of Portugal went through a GDP contraction of 4% last year and the trend doesn't look like it's going to stop any time soon. Spain is going through a similar problem because of the corruption of the politicians (which, for some reason, the people are still tolerating), although the Spanish economy only shrank by 1.4%. <br /><br />Salazar was an interesting figure. I think that he probably did more for the country than he is given credit for, and it was probably the case that if post-1910 governmental trend had continued Portugal would be in an even worse state today than it is, but I am still firmly of the opinion that his failure to restore the Kingdom was a major mistake on his part.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com