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EHRLICH, Laura. Cuando la revolución cambia de signo. La “izquierda” del peronismo como objeto de deseo y de represión. Prismas [online]. 2020, vol.24, n.2, pp.289-295. ISSN 1852-0499.

When the Revolution changes its meaning. Peronist “Left” as an object of desire

This essay focuses on the problem of why certain Peronist activists were told to be “leftist” at the beginning of the sixties in Argentina. In the first section the paper analyzes some rhetorical figures used by Peronist when they were not in power at the end of the 1950s in order to show that they originally belonged to a rightist ideological frame. The second section concentrates on State agents’ and leftist Parties’ discourses referring to militant groups within the Peronism as a “Peronist Left”, a “New Left” or directly as “communist friendly”, and proposes that it was due to both will of repression (the former) and political desire (the latter). Finally, the article proposes the idea that these cases were the linguistic expression of a more general political crisis that displayed multiple and unstable meanings for “Left”.

Palabras clave : Peronism; Left; Right; Revolution.

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