Telos No. 54, Winter 1982-83
Juan E. Corradi: The Mode of Destruction: Terror in Argentina Michal Reiman: Political Trials of the Stalinist Era Frederick Johnstone: State Terror in South Africa Norberto Bobbio: Italy's Permanent Crisis Norbert Elias: Civilization and Violence Notes and Commentary: Joel Kovel: Theses on Technocracy Klaus Segbers: The European Peace Movements, The Soviet Union and the American Left Halina M. Charwat: Poland: August 1980-December 1982: A Conference Report Stanislaw Warecki: The Landscape After Battle Adam Michnik: An Open Letter to International Public Opinion Reviews: Russell Berman: Joachim Hirsch, Der Sicherheitsstaat Russell Jacoby: Ira H. Cohen, Ideology and Consciousness Gregory Calvert: Wini Breines, Community and Organization in the New Left Paul Mattick, Jr.: Rudolph Hilferding, Finance Capital Ellen Comisso: Miklas Haraszti, A Worker in a Workers' State This page Copyright © Telos Press, Ltd., 1997. All Rights Reserved >--- Original Message --- >From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: 4/10/02 11:00:51 AM > >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 > >
