José Antonio Primo de Rivera you a book before it was begun. It is yours now that it is finished –Those we love die for us only when we die–”. The political canon of Falange resembled that of Italy's Partito Nazionale Fascista. It shared its dislike of Communism and its contempt for parliamentarianism. Primo de Rivera proposed that the creation of a hierarchical trade-union hegemony under Falangist control would guarantee the robust protection of every honest worker. Additionally the Falangist platform called for extensive agrarian reforms, for the nationalization of the banking system and for the suppression of all political parties. Until the desired establishment
Antonio Maura caused him to fall out with the King. Maura later headed coalition cabinets with other parties (1918, 1919, 1921–22), but he did nothing to advance unconstitutional methods. Many of his followers later supported the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, but he remained aloof from both Primo de Rivera and King Alfonso XIII. Maura had first entered the political arena to fight the ""caciquismo"" culture, which he considered a cancer of Spanish political culture and the main obstacle towards authentically democratic institutions. When he was Prime Minister during the reign of Alfonso XIII, he spent summers at the estate of