Ideas and ideologies in Argentina in the 1920s: anti-fascism before anti-fascism

Abstract

The article attempts to develop an analysis of the ideas that were developed about anti-fascism in Argentina in the 1920s. To do so, it studies a series of cultural magazines with a cos-mopolitan and/or left-wing ideological orientation (Nosotros, Los pensadores, Claridad, Valoraciones, Izquierda, Sagitario). The hypothesis is proposed that in a global context of circula-tion of ideas, the fascist political model is analyzed with curiosity, its anti-worker and authoritarian component is challenged, but it is recognized as a specific expression of Italian political life, of impossible development in Argentina. Unlike what would happen in the 1930s, anti-fascism was a non-central component of the national political debate during those years.

Keywords

• antifascism
• lefts
• 20s
• argentina
• cultural magazines