Juan Domingo Peron

Robert Crassweller, (1987) Peron and the Enigmas of Argentina. Norton, 1987.

James W. McGuire, (1997) Peronism Without Peron: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Peronisation of the working class, whereby a bourgeois nationalist ideology was imposed on the mass movement. Thus nationalism was used to motivate a mass labor movement in favor of Peron. Nationalism was growing in strength since the 1930’s and Peron merely used it in his favor. However, Peron did remind his audience especially the businessmen and landowners, who he abused in his campaign to win the workers, about the struggle against Communism. He mentions that the world has witnessed the fall of Russia to Communism. In fact, theories of Capitalism are no clearer than in a speech he made in 1944: “My dear Capitalists…Don’t be afraid of my labor movement…Capitalism has never been safer, because I too am a Capitalist. I own a ranch, and there are laborers on it. What I want is to organize the workers so that the state can control them, and lay down guidelines for them, and neutralize in their hearts the ideological and revolutionary passions that might endanger our post-war capitalist society. But the workers will become easily manageable only if they are given some improvements.” This is nothing but a clear indication that the traditional system of Argentine Capitalism was supposedly not under threat, but Peron sympathized with it.

By 1949 Peron could make significant revisions and amendments to the Constitution of 1853, including authority to succeed himself in the presidency, and establish the Peronist Party as an official government political party. In review of this regime of terror highlights the almost identical likeness to the infamous Third Reich Regime in Germany under Hitler – Peron could not have made all this up himself and therefore one can easily assume that Peron merely liked and therefore copied this regime making his regime merely an amalgamation of others. Whatever view one takes of Peron, there is no denying that, for good or evil, he left his imprint on Argentina. As secretary of labor and social welfare, he employed all the power of a dictatorial state to overcome opposition to long-overdue labor legislation and to build up powerful unions personally attached to him in every economic field. These became the mass base for the Peronist movement. In his years as president they constituted a watershed in the country’s history in terms of the expansion of government power over the economy, social reform legislation, and the strengthening of the labor movement. In fact his ideas of economic revival and industrialization were not too distant from those of Communist Russia under Stalin.

For example, Stalin implemented highly centralized planning with top priority for heavy industry and minimal attention to citizens needs. Although in this respect, we must note that Peron took the opposite view of helping the citizens b

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