"In two decades, you'll lament the opportunities you didn't seize more than the actions you took. So cast off the ropes and leave the safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

— Mark Twain

Articles by Juan F. Arroquia

An Assessment of Homosexuality in Light of Catholic Church Teaching

Juan Fco. Arroquia (Deolavide).

Why an assessment of homosexuality?

First, though not necessarily most important, for reasons of journalistic timeliness: a controversy has arisen on another thread of this website regarding this issue.

One...

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Ramiro Ledesma and José Antonio Primo de Rivera: Convergences and Divergences

Juan Fco. Arroquia (Deolavide)

We can maintain the fiction of fundamental identity between the thoughts of Ramiro and José Antonio. We can continue pretending, as until now with rare exceptions, that their thinking is synonymous, that their differences...

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A Response and a Proposal

By Juan Fco. Arroquia (Deolavide)

Elobeygrande, a pseudonym with equatorial references used by a frequent commenter on this portal of Falangist thought, posed me a question in another thread that, as good manners demand, I intend to...

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Montoro's "Threat" Scandalizes the Political Class

By Juan Fco. Arroquia.

Cristóbal Montoro has announced that he will modify the Government Transparency Law so that politicians who spend more than what is established in their budget will have to face criminal charges. Cristóbal Montoro was Minister of Finance...

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Zapatero: His Work and Legacy

By Juan Arroquia (Deolavide)

José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero is not an intellectual, not a philosopher, nor even a political ideologue. At least, to date, his contributions to these fields remain unknown.

The opinion is not uncommon...

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The "National Syndicalist Political Form"...

By DEOLAVIDE

Reviewing the entries on Hispana Vista, I find this reference to this work by Antonio Gibello that includes a call for debate on Falangist syndicalism. Curiously, it has not received any response. I don't want to abstain...

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The Economy We Want (II)

By Juan Arroquia (Deolavide).

Part Two: Instruments

Joseantoniano syndicalism is an instrument serving a mission that consists of recovering the people for the tasks of the Homeland and those proper to the higher affirmation of...

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Fanaticism and Tolerance in Postmodern Society

By Juan F. Arroquia.

The dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy of Language offers us two meanings of fanatic:

1. adj. One who defends beliefs or opinions with excessive and passionate tenacity, especially religious or political ones. Also used as...

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The Economy We Want

By Juan Arroquia (Deolavide).

Values. Goals. Instruments.

Every economic model project worthy of the name must be informed by certain values and serve certain purposes that are proclaimed as its own and non-negotiable.

I will begin, therefore, by identifying the values...

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Response to an Atheist Falangist

By Francisco Arroquia (Deolavide).

On one occasion, some time ago, in a Falangist opinion forum, a conversation arose about the existence of God. An atheist comrade challenged me to prove His existence (that of God) with these words:

"Well...

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