Lo que vuelve: Trazos de lo nacional-popular en Argentina

Abstract

The paper proposes to reflect on the national-popular in Argentina, understood as a societal structure forged in the first Peronism, which transcends and lasts beyond the ideologically diverse orientations of the governments that have ruled politically in Argentina after Perón’s exile. This reflection is carried out through the presentation and the counterpoint between different interpretations of Peronism that put the focus of attention on the question of the national-popular, privileging those that were deployed from the left. Thus, the paper asks at the same time about the persistence – even with its variations – of the national-popular as the hard core of Argentine politics, resistant to the various forms of offensive by the ruling classes, as well as the ways in which the left were linked and linked with that structure. Likewise, trying to project the reflection beyond the Argentine singularity, it is aimed at suggesting the importance of the problem of the historicity of the national-popular, at a distance from possible formalistic slippages that threaten contemporary theories of populism.