''La Conquista del Estado'' (English: "The Conquest of the State") was a magazine based in

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''La Conquista del Estado'' was launched in 1931 by

Ramiro Ledesma Ramos Ramiro Ledesma Ramos (23 May 1905 – 29 October 1936) was a Spanish philosopher, politician, writer, essayist, and journalist, known as one of the pioneers in the introduction of Fascism in Spain. Early life Born in Alfaraz de Sayago (province ...

. The first issue, issued on 14 March 1931, contained a manifesto in which

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was elaborated. Ledesma's idea was to win over the

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(CNT), the then dominant

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movement in the country, to a form of national

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. The ideas in the

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were discussed during the CNT congress in the summer of 1931 without being approved. On the other hand, despite the magazine being inspired from the

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, the founders of the magazine did not endorse his views on

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and argued that it should be replaced with the notion of Spain's imperial past. Members of the organizing committee of ''La Conquista del Estado'' were Ramiro Ledesma Ramos (president), Juan Aparicio López (secretary), Ernesto Giménez Caballero, Ricardo de Jaspe Santoma, Manuel Souto Vilas, Antonio Bermúdez Cañete, Francisco Mateos González, Alejandro M. Raimúndez, Ramón Iglesias Parga, Antonio Riaño Lanzarote and Roberto Escribano Ortega. The small group around ''La Conquista del Estado'' was based in the universities of Madrid. On 10 October the group around ''La Conquista del Estado'' merged with the

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-based Junta Castellana de Actuación Hispánica to form the

Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista (, JONS) was a nationalist and fascist movement in 1930s Spain, merged with the Falange Española into the Falange Española de las JONS in 1934. History JONS was founded on 10 October 1931 as the fusio ...

. In total 23 issues of ''La Conquista del Estado'' were published during 1931. Generally the publication was weekly, but was suspended during August and September. The last issue was published on 24 October.

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