Repensar La Derecha: Democracia Cristiana, Corporativismo E Integralismo En Ecuador En La Entreguerra (1918-1943)

Carlos Ramiro Espinosa Fernández de Córdova

Authors

Carlos Ramiro Espinosa Fernández de Córdova Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

Abstract

This article analyzes three concepts mobilized by the Ecuadorian right in the interwar period (1918-1943), at a time in which this sector was rethinking its political model amid the social question and other national and global experiences, such as the Ecuador-Peru conflict, the Spanish Civil War and European fascisms. The three concepts, which formulated parallel political models were: Christian democracy, the corporatist state and integralism. These were defined in relation to each other and vis a vis counter-concepts, such as liberalism and socialism. Moreover, as modern concepts, they were marked by temporalization and by historicity inasmuch as they pointed to a desirable future. Nevertheless, this future constituted a restoration of a longed-for past. The article seeks to link Ecuadorian political history to global historiographical debates concerning political concepts, religion and politics and transnational processes.

Keywords: Corporatism, Christian Democracy, integralism, history of concepts, temporalization, fascism.

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