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Argentina posts: what's next by Louis Proyect 10 April 2002 19:02 UTC |
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I had intended to post a lengthy article on Juan Perón next in my series on Argentina's collapse, but while reading Juan Eugenio Corradi's chapter on Argentina in Chilcote-Edelstein's "Latin America: the Struggle with Dependency and Beyond", I became convinced that is crucial to fill in the period from roughly the end of the 19th century to Peron's rise to power. These are the country's supposedly halcyon days, when capitalism worked. Among other questions, Corradi tries to explain how Argentina's "golden age" was built on rotten foundations. I will focus in on this period in my next post. As well as recapitulating some of Corradi's insights, which are very strongly influenced by dependista theory, I will include material from the following: --Jeremy Adelman, "The Social Bases of Technical Change: Mechanization of the Wheatlands in Argentina and Canada, 1890-1914", Comparative Studies in Society and History April 1992 --Herman Schwartz, "Foreign Creditors and the Politics of Development in Australia and Argentina, 1880-1913" Most importantly, I will draw from the aptly titled collection "Prologue to Perón: Argentina in Depression and War, 1930-1943", edited by Mark Falcoff and Ronald Dolkart. In their introduction, they write: "The Argentine dilemma finds its roots, we believe, in the abrupt disappearance of the conditions that made possible the emergence of the modern republic in the late nineteenth century. Those conditions were the existence of the British Empire as a principal market for foodstuffs, the international division of labor, and the relatively free movement of goods and services across national boundaries. For most underdeveloped countries those props were perceptibly weakening as early as 1914, but for Argentina--thanks to a peculiar constellation of circumstances--they lasted until 1930. Then, under the combined impact of the world depression and the Second World War, they collapsed. The failure of Argentina's leadership to respond adequately to the double crisis explains, we hold, the Revolution of 1943 and the subsequent emergence of Colonel Juan Perón." Marxmail links of interest: 1. Comments by Carlos on original post: http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism%40lists.panix.com/msg32687.html 2. Reply to Carlos by Nestor G. http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism@lists.panix.com/msg32738.html 3. Carlos answers Nestor G. http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism@lists.panix.com/msg32747.html 4. Excerpt from Corradi article: http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism@lists.panix.com/msg32820.html 5. Comments by Carlos on Corradi: http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism@lists.panix.com/msg32823.html http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism@lists.panix.com/msg32826.html Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
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