Popular participation in the Spanish movement

Abstract

The changes in history when they are done in depth (substitution of paradigms) are always very slow and traumatic before the inexcusable attacks for the substitution of the pre-existing model. All the good news that in history have been inherent to the human evolutionary process have triggered similar dialectics. The liberal model (it couldn´t it be otherwise) when trying to replace the old regimental system (in the passage from the enlightened century to the one of classes) could not escape those dynamics, especially when the traditional worldview was intimately rooted in the social organization and not less in individual consciences. If the substitution phenomenon presents general characteristics everywhere, in Spain it has specific features. What is common is that the new model (even more so if it involves a new worldview) does not succeed until at least a couple of generations make it their own. The process that starts from an idea born among thinking minorities (intellectuals), who make it their own by an action group (politicians) - Generation of 1808 (G-1808) - that manages to excite and attract influential and growing social sectors to the good news. This process of substitution of models takes place in the western world (Spain included) from the last third of the enlightened century (XVIII) and will last during most of the liberal one and even after.