Oligarchy, Aristocracy and Nation. The Argentina of the 1930’s according to Marcelo T. de Alvear
Abstract
The article examines the views of Marcelo T. de Alvear about Argentina in the 1930s. For this, the analysis focuses on a topic to which Alvear appealed frequently: the country was characterized by a conflict between an oligarchy and the nation. This diagnosis was not original from Alvear, but characteristic of the period. Therefore, the article discusses the singular reasons and particular meanings that it had in Alvear. In that sense, the article highlights two factors. The first one, is that Alvear appealed to that topic, which was familiar to the political traditions of the Unión Cívica Radical (UCR), to legitimate his action as the president of this political party in the 1930 ́s. In second place, the article argues that the notion of “oligarchy”, was a result of a particular evaluation of the social group to which Alvear belonged: the Argentine social elite. In the conclusions, the article proposes, as from the former exploration, what were the fundamental problems of Argentina at his time according to Alvear, and what relationship could exist between this diagnosis and the paths of his public career.Downloads
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