All we know that it never was left-wing, its model was the italian fascism, it never toke part in any leftist action, all their relations were with reactionaries, Calvo Sotelo, the plotters of the 1936 coup, etc.
Perhaps the fact that anarchists and socialists regularly murdered Falangists has something to do with this.
Aside that Fascism was only a model and since the merging with the JONS, that model lost most of it's influence.
1. Benito and (arguably) Mosley had socialist pasts. The Falangists didn't.
Read the previous posts: Mosley never had socialist parts. Mussolini reneged from them.
2. The Falange WAS right-wing. It was an anti-communist and anti-anarchist, corporativist and pro-Catholic group. The fact that it incorporated syndicalist (not in the KR sense of "syndicalism") elements, accomodated trade unions on its structure and was originally somewhat anti-capitalist doesn't make it left-wing.
I repeat: read the previous posts: pro-Catholic? The strict separation of Church and State is far from being pro Catholic. The defense of th Church in a context were assaults to churches and destruction of their properties was too common is far away from being pro Catholic. About being anti-anarchist and anti-communist... They only spoke about Marxism. And at least the JONS were the only one "fascist" group that recognized that traditional left wing ideology had some advantages, putting them in a better position than the capitalistic democracies (Obviously, monarchy was at the bottom of the scale).
BTW, anarchism is anticommunist and communism is antianarchist. That's not an argument.
3. We
don't have to make every single RL fascist group into KR Totalists.
The point is that Falange fits perfectly in that role. Specially the JONS. Moreover, if you read the previous posts, you will see that the proposition is that the Spanish Totalist faction should be a mix of the Falange, the JONS, the Spanish Communist Party and the Workers Party of Marxist Unification.
And be honest, seeing Primo de Rivera together with Dolores Ibárruri is simply awesome, just like Mosley and Blair:
KR's National-Syndicalism is more-or-less just the Italian term for Totalism (that is, Bolshevism, socialism-in-one-country, totalitarian socialism, etc.). RL's National-Syndicalism, in the sense as it was used by the Falange, is a right-wing nationalist ideology inspired by both syndicalism (again, NOT in the KR sense of the term) and fascism.
Fascism is mostly a nationalistic version of Sorel's Revolutionary Syndicalism.
And, again, we don't have to use OTL Falange ideology.
PS: Mussolini was always a fierce nationalist.
Anyway, as I said, since we won't ever agree wether they were right or left-wing, I favour keeping the Falange as a minor faction in the KoS or the Carlists, with a chance for a coup eventually.
That's exactly the same that having the Bolsheviks as a minor faction in the Russian Empire... Or having an Imperial Faction in Republican China with chance to become an Empire.