The violence, in reality, had been around for a while and, despite the protests of victimization by some party leaders, opposed to it temperamentally and by education, the fact is that the Falange had been systematically feeding it, with the aim of making the Republic’s situation untenable; the use of force was at the very heart of the Falangist ideology, which, like all the other fascist movements, adopted Lenin’s revolutionary methods, for whom a minority of brave and committed men – the equivalent of Spengler’s squad of soldiers – was enough to take power through armed struggle.
