Political Organization and the Common Good

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The truth is that, as taught by Saint Thomas Aquinas, politics is not an end but a means, and that means is directed toward the Common Good. Therefore, politics is subordinated to ethics. The end of every political society is its moral and spiritual perfection, that is, its transcendence and salvation. Thus, the Christian prince must always embody this ethic and serve as a model, following Divine Law, Natural Law, and the laws of the realm, so that he may resemble God in the purest way possible.

As Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange rightly said regarding the rights and laws that govern individual, family, social, and political life: these cannot be founded upon contingent and fleeting realities, but rather upon Good itself, upon the supreme Reason, upon God. If politics, therefore, presents itself to us as a human necessity, born of natural reason, then undoubtedly, organizations such as ours—in full adherence to divine and Catholic precepts—must defend political association. No action is possible without the presence of a government, and that is precisely the space occupied, in our particular context, by the Political Secretariat.

The Comunión Tradicionalista has every reason to exist, despite those who argue against the relevance of a political leadership. It has been the will of H.R.H. Don Sixto Enrique de Borbón, our Enrique V. The Political Secretariat has always been appointed by Don Sixto Enrique de Borbón for the administration of matters relating to his dynastic rights—rights that, without a doubt, point to the idea of restoring the legitimate monarchy in Spain and ensuring that kings, as in times past, reign.

His Royal Highness has been the most concerned with the question of organization, even in the difficult times of illness and old age. The existence of a political organization is the materialization of government; it is the combined effort of all the energy and intellect of the followers, subjects, and collaborators of Carlism, which is the most authentic form of traditionalism in the Spains, in the Indies, and in the world, as it is the longest-standing counterrevolutionary movement in history.

Don Sixto is not a conspirator, as some journalists have wanted to label him, for there is no conspiracy in what is legitimate and just: the struggle for a series of rights that stem from birth, from blood, and even from rightful exercise. This is especially true if we consider that Don Sixto, in response to the liberal and traitorous attitude of his brother, chose to initiate a crusade for the restoration of the perennial and authentic principles of traditional monarchy.

Let us insist that the creation of the Comunión Tradicionalista, of which Don Sixto was the architect, was not a whim, nor was it the establishment of a political party; it is the materialization of the crusading spirit represented by Carlism since its first breath in those days following the death of Ferdinand VII.

The Secretariat is an instrument, not an end in itself, and there is no Secretariat without a legitimate king, without a Standard-Bearer of Tradition. For this reason, the Secretariat has worked tirelessly, hand in hand with its king, to handle all dynastic affairs with the utmost prudence and speed.

There are those, ignorant of political affairs and against all prudence and sound politics, who believe that the Secretariat must disclose all its mechanisms of action, all its plans and contingencies concerning dynastic matters. They dare to doubt, as if accounts had to be rendered to just anyone! They doubt as if the Secretariat had not been established by Don Sixto and its members did not enjoy his full confidence.

The detractors of Carlist discipline believe that the Secretariat dominates its king, when the opposite is true: the Secretariat is the vassal of Don Sixto, it serves and lives for Don Sixto. No political matter concerning Don Sixto and his succession escapes the hands of the Secretariat, for if it did, the Secretariat could not be considered worthy of the role it legitimately carries out by the initiative of its leader and principal figure.

Therefore:

1. The Political Secretariat is an instrument of political organization, whose members have been entrusted by Don Sixto Enrique de Borbón with the task of achieving the five guiding principles once outlined by Don Alfonso Carlos: the Catholic religion, the natural organic constitution of the Spains, the historic federation of the regions, the authentic traditional monarchy, and lastly, the principles of the Derecho viejo (old law), in opposition to the new, liberal, modern law.
2. The Political Secretariat, which presides over the Comunión Tradicionalista, represents the interests of Don Sixto Enrique de Borbón and will continue to do so as long as Don Sixto does not oppose it—which has never occurred. The Secretariat pursues Don Sixto’s ends, which are the ends of all the Spains by reason of their historical and traditional order.
3. The Political Secretariat, in continuity with those five aforementioned principles, aspires to the Common Good of all the peoples and regions of the Spains. The Common Good can only be attained through the restoration of the legitimate branch, of the legitimate monarchy, and of the natural constitution of those peoples. Liberalism is something contra naturam.
4. It is impossible to aspire to the legitimate monarchy, to the traditional order of the Spains, without the presence of a political organization that gathers, unites, and administers all matters of a political nature with the greatest union of forces, intellects, and actions. Every body of principles demands application, an effective praxis. Carlism aspires and works with tremendous energy because it enjoys an entire structure destined for that noble end of restoring the traditional order of the Spains.

Political organization is a necessity for Carlists—and above all, for disciplined Carlists. Indiscipline is a Luciferian attitude, primarily favored and practiced by revolutionaries. There are Bolsheviks, even among those who wear berets. The greatest service that can be rendered to the Carlist cause, to the cause of Don Sixto and his kingship, is political discipline. We must promote, in his name, discipline and obedience toward the structures upon which he himself has drawn, since they were instituted by his own authority since the founding of the Comunión Tradicionalista. There is nothing more to say.

¡Viva Enrique V!

Alejandro Perdomo Fermin Círculo Tradicionalista Pedro Menéndez de Avilés