Argentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming
of Nazi war criminals after World War II. At mid-century, it was the
home of Peronism. It was also the birthplace of the Dirty War and one
of Latin America's most criminal dictatorships in the 1970s and early
1980s. How and why did all of these regimes emerge in a country that
was "born liberal"? Why did these authoritarian traits first emerge in
Argentina under the shadow of fascism? In this book, Federico
Finchelstein tells the history of modern Argentina as seen from the
perspective of political violence and ideology. He focuses on the
theory and practice of the fascist idea in Argentine political culture
throughout the twentieth century, analyzing the connections between
fascist theory and the Holocaust, antisemitism, and the military
junta's practices of torture and state violence, with its networks of
concentration camps and extermination. The book demonstrates how the
state's war against its citizens was rooted in fascist ideology,
explaining the Argentine variant of fascism, formed by
_nacionalistas_, and its links with European fascism and Catholicism.
It particularly emphasizes the genocidal dimensions of the persecution
of Argentine Jewish victims. The destruction of the rule of law and
military state terror during the Dirty War, Finchelstein shows, was
the product of many political and ideological reformulations and
personifications of fascism._The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War_
provides a genealogy of state-sanctioned terror, revealing fascism as
central to Argentina's political culture and its violent twentieth
century.
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Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Argentina
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780199396504
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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