Carlism on the 12 Axes

Carlism began in 1833, when supporters of Infante Carlos María Isidro refused to accept his niece Isabel II as queen and rose against the liberal government. Three Carlist Wars followed, centered on Navarre and the Basque Country. Its motto, Dios, Patria, Fueros, Rey, sums up the program: Catholic unity, loyalty to Spain, the historic fueros or local charters, and a legitimate king bound by them. Carlist militias, the requetés, fought on Franco's side in 1936, and the movement was forced into the single party in 1937. In the 1970s Carlos Hugo de Borbón-Parma led one branch toward self-managing socialism. Compared with Falangism, Carlism is decentralist and monarchist. Compared with monarchism in general, it ties the crown to Catholic faith and regional rights.

• Monarchism 78%Monarchism supports a hereditary monarch as head of state, seeing the crown as a source of continuity, national unity and legitimacy that stands above party politics.
• Theocracy 75%Theocracy is a system in which a state is governed according to religious law, with clergy or religious authorities holding political power in the name of God.
• Distributism 73%Distributism is an economic philosophy rooted in Catholic social teaching that wants property spread widely among families, small farms, artisans and cooperatives, rejecting both big capitalism and state socialism.
• Reactionarism 73%Reactionarism seeks to reverse modern political and social changes and restore an earlier order, often with hierarchy, religion and inherited authority in place of democracy.