Origins of Argentina's Revolution of the Right

<p><em>The Origins of Argentina's Revolution of the Right</em> traces the ideological roots and political impact of Argentine right-wing nationalism as it developed in the 1930s and 1940s. In this spirited book Alberto Spektorowski focuses on the attempt by a new brand of nonconformist intellectuals to shift the concept of Argentine nationalism from its liberal incarnation to an integralist-populist one and simultaneously to change Argentina's path of development from liberalism to a third road of economic autarky.</p><p>Spektorowski maintains that the third road developed in 1930s Argentina through the juxtaposition of two apparently opposing types of anti-liberal ideological currents: a right-wing authoritarian current reliant upon counterrevolutionary European sources and an anti-imperialist populist current. He shows that both of these wings rejected liberal institutions bourgeois society cosmopolitanism and old-type conservatism and became profoundly anti-imperialist. Both defended a pro-Axis neutrality during World War II and both set the ideological stage for Argentina's sociopolitical shift of the 1940s. Spektorowski concludes that both of these currents produced a single nationalist ideology that became the intellectual framework in which the repertoire of political values of the 1943 military regime and Peronism was subsequently elaborated.</p>