The emergence of Peronism meant a quantitative problem for all political parties, for the potential loss of electoral support. For the Argentine Communist Party (ACP), it was a theoretical problem as well – the working class, the subject of History for Marxists, was deviating from its...

Gino Germani was an Italian-born Argentine sociologist who in 1956 offered the first interpretation of peronism based upon current social science categories. Popular interpretations of peronism considered it a local version of fascism. Germani specified the differences between these two...

Silvio Frondizi fue uno de los teóricos que dio origen a la nueva izquierda de los sesenta. Aunque ésta surgió alrededor de 1960. Las raíces teóricas de la nueva izquierda se hunden en los debates del marxismo de las décadas anteriores. El papel de Silvio Frondizi, sin embargo, fue más de...

This paper explores Gino Germani’s further interpretations of Peronism after considering it a particular case of Fascism (see Working Paper N° 371). A visit paid to American universities in late 1956 or early 1957 put him in touch with leading sociologists, Seymour Martin Lipset among them....

The emergence of Peronism meant a quantitative problem for all political parties, for the potential loss of electoral support. For the Argentine Communist Party (ACP), it was a theoretical problem as well – the working class, the subject of History for Marxists, was deviating from its...

This paper explores Gino Germani’s further interpretations of Peronism after considering it a particular case of Fascism (see Working Paper Nr. 371). A visit paid to American universities in late 1956 or early 1957 put him in touch with leading sociologists, Seymour Martin Lipset among them....