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The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War - Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Argentina (Paperback)
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The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War - Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Argentina (Paperback)
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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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