This dictator of Spain from 1923 to 1930 was a count, a marquis and a knight. An interesting Hispanist said he came from “a hard-drinking, whoring, horse-loving aristocracy” that ruled “over the most starved and down-trodden race of agricultural labourers in Europe,” and I got that quotation from Wikipedia.
I was reading about Primo de Rivera in a respectable book published by Cambridge University Press. There was a description of his Mussolini inspired, corporativist unions and it struck me that these resemble academic senates. They are corporations with representatives from workers, employers, and the government, and they are an instrument of the state.
What do you think of my analogy?
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 