Note: The following is adapted from a 1990 article authored by a now deceased American satirist from Texas, R. Pendleton, who was also a scholar who specialized in the history and culture of Mediterranean Europe. A CRITIQUE OF DEMOCRACY - SPAIN AS A CASE STUDY In 1936 the socialist revolutionary apparatus in Spain, having obtained control of the government in corrupt elections, began a great 'modernization' of the country, celebrating it with massacres of Spaniards of cultivation and refinement, although the atrocities that were given publicity in the United States were almost confined to the burning of churches, the torture...