By James P. Brennan
Peronism and Argentina examines the historical past, origins, and modern instructions of Peronism, an important populist stream in twentieth-century Latin the United States. Written from an introductory and interdisciplinary viewpoint, this quantity contains contributions from historians, political scientists, and sociologists. those provocative essays make clear many misconceptions concerning the nature of Peronism and clarify how the circulation has been interpreted via intellectuals and the way it has stimulated Argentine politics and civil society over the past part century. Peronism and Argentina additionally comprises essays at the current Peronist executive lower than Carlos Menem?s rule.
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The analytical tools and theories of the new cultural studies could be very effectively applied to such a project. Then, too, Peronist economic policies have also been heterodox and constantly changing, and thus have not been studied in depth. These essays are concerned, above all, with how Peronism has been interpreted by intellectuals and how it has influenced Argentine politics and civil society over the last half-century. Perhaps, as Juan Carlos Torre has recently suggested, the only thing that characterizes Peronism, the leitmotiv that runs throughout its history, is a certain way of conducting politics.
39 The Economic Dimension. 40 The Social Base. Populism in Latin America is supported by many economic classes, with Peronism being distinguished by the notable weight of the working class in its populist alliance. 41 The Political Characterization of the Movements and the Regimes. 42 Characterization of the Ideology. It appears eclectic and atypical when compared with the classic European models. 43 Despite the points of agreement, it would be incorrect to present this interpretative group, which employs populism in a descriptive and not an objectivist-Manichaean way, as a homogeneous "school" that has resolved all the problems that the diverse national cases pose.
Finally, Sebreli returns to an old argument by which it is not necessary to find similarities between fascism and Peronism because the connection was of an organic nature: The 1943 military coup was orchestrated by the Third Reich, and Peronism thus was its direct offspring. 11 What can be said about these assertions? The anti-Communist motivation unquestionably existed, but it can hardly be considered uniquely Peronist. The anticommunism of the Radical Party and the conservative upper classes was equally real.