The Crisis of the Dictatorships

Portugal, Spain, Greece

Nicos Poulantzas

• Publisher: Verso
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781786632418
• eBook ISBN:
  9781788731942
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Fascism & Totalitarianism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The Crisis of the Dictatorships is Nicos Poulantzas's fourth book. It is a compact study, at once topical and theoretical, of the historical end of the reactionary and authoritarian regimes that have dominated much of Southern Europe. Poulantzas applies the categories of his now standard general works - on Political Power and Social Classes, Fascism and Dictatorship, and Classes in Contemporary Capitalism - to the specific social structures and political systems of Portugal, Spain and Greece. The international environment and the internal dynamic of class conflict in each country are surveyed. The book then assesses the ruling bloc, the popular classes and the State apparatus in Portuguese, Greek and Spanish societies. The result is a novel and powerful analysis of the causes of the fall of the Papadopoulous-Ioannides Junta, the overthrow of the Salazarist State, and the crisis of Franco's heirs, that contrasts these with the end of German Nazism and Italian Fascism thirty years ago. The Crisis of the Dictatorships will be essential reading for all who are concerned with the political future of Europe.

Index

Alegria, Diez, 84

Algerian war, 116

Allende, Salvador, 22, 100, 154

Angola, 61

Antunes, Melo, 63, 155

Armed Forces Movement, 61, 63, 64, 65, 85, 88, 95, 99, 100, 108–10, 132, 138, 141–5, 147, 149–50, 153

Azevedo, Jose Baptista Pinheiro de, 137

Brandt, Willy, 65

Bruno, Almeida, 110

Cabral, Dr, 62–3

Caetano, Marcelo, 26, 28, 35, 42, 48, 64, 77, 95–6, 102, 113, 120

Carlism, 49

Carlos, Palma, 61–2, 88, 99, 109

Carrero Blanco, Luis, 107

Carvalho, Otelo Saraiva de, 63, 88, 110, 143, 147, 150

Centre Union Party, 49, 51, 59

Champalimaud, Antonio, 61–2

Chile, 22, 100, 109, 128–9, 131, 154

CIA, 22, 38, 117

Confederation of Portuguese Industry, 62, 65

Copcon, 88, 99, 109, 142, 145, 147, 150

Costa Gomes, Francisco de, 63–4, 99, 110

Cunhal, Alvaro, 102, 162

Cyprus, 36, 38, 40, 77–8, 116, 158

dictatorial regimes; ‘comprador’ and ‘domestic’ bourgeoisies, 41f., 67, 92ff., 106, 115, 120, 123, 128; bureaucracy, 120–2; factors in overthrow, 77–9, 85–9; foreign capital investment, 12–17, 20, 24ff.; hegemony and alliances against, 59, 60f., 66–7, 85–9, 132, 134–6, 144, 151, 153, 155, 159 isolation from masses, 55–8, 75, 79–81; liberalization and popular intervention, 94–5, 99; integration into Europe, 8, 10, 25, 52–4, 57; nationalism, 114–6; special dependence, 8, 10–22, 41, 68, 115, 121, 130–1; contradictions within state apparatuses, 54, 80–8, 90–1...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• I. The Imperialist World Context
• II. The Dictatorships, the United States and Europe
• III. The Dominant Classes
• IV. The Popular Classes
• V. The State Apparatuses
• VI. Conclusion
• From March 1975 to June 1976
• Index