Abstract

Spain According to Madariaga

The article focuses on the book "Spain," by Salvador de Madariaga. The book is an ivory tower falsely described by its architect as a political lighthouse. It is a cold, lifeless abstraction, from which the blood and bones of reality are missing. De Madariaga was neutral as between fascism and the republic during the Civil War, and this book is, on its subjective side, his defense of that attitude, written in the certain and confessed knowledge that the future of Spain lies with the republic. "Spain" aims to prove, in the course of its long, scholarly, and academic review of events and problems that only an incredibly small group, roughly the centrist conservatives and the extreme right-wing republicans, can provide the government Spain needs.