The "Pre-fascism" argument: the study of authoritarianism in the 20th century (from a Catalan-Spanish viewpoint)

This article presents a state of the art on the analysis of modern anti-parliamentarian
phenomena, highlighting the emphasis put on both its precedents and long term triggers,
also known as pre-fascism. The article first proposes to differentiate between
these elements, which directly intervene in the development of such a specific phenomenon
of the interwar period, and the ones inherent to the complex crisis of insertion
of the democratic system in Western Europe. Secondly, these reflections are
applied to the specific Catalonia-Spain case.