in an interview with xavier moret, the writer manuel vázquez montalbán described the phenomenon in the following way:there was a sociological francoism which existed before and still exists to a greater or lesser extent today, coupled with francoist rhetoric in which only the best years – those of 1962 or 1963 and the first part of the 1970s – are remembered, omitting the years of misery and the economic recession that existed prior to the spanish civil war and continued to grow under francoism. the economically prosperous years have been mythologized within sociological francoism; however, we should remind ourselves that this success was based on exporting the unemployed first to catalonia and the basque country and then later to europe.in a similar vein, the philosopher josé luis lópez aranguren has written that "francoism, while originally a political system, transformed into a way of life for the spanish people".