Villacañas identifies three pillars that allowed the regime to persist and eventually transition into the contemporary era:
A "genocide of the political" where the republican identity was systematically destroyed and replaced by a culture that lacked historical continuity with previous democratic traditions. The Transition & Legacy La Revolucion Pasiva De Franco Jose Luis Villac...
New laws that built a civil state apparatus. Villacañas identifies three pillars that allowed the regime
The implementation of state-oriented capitalism, heavily influenced by German ordoliberalism during the desarrollismo (development) phase. La Revolucion Pasiva De Franco Jose Luis Villac...
In (2022), philosopher José Luis Villacañas Berlanga reinterprets Francisco Franco’s 40-year regime not just as an authoritarian dictatorship, but as a systematic "passive revolution" that fundamentally reshaped Spanish society from the top down. Core Themes & Theoretical Framework
Villacañas draws on Machiavelli’s The Prince and The Life of Castruccio Castracani to describe Franco as a condotiero —a warlord or technician of power driven by a "void of interiority" and relentless ambition.