Bjørn Stærk — The arguments about what Peronism was and...

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The arguments about what Peronism was and is—authoritarian populism? left-wing nationalism?—miss the deeper point that it was a vehicle for Perón, not for any particular ideology. And Perón, far from being an ideologue, was an intuitive political genius with an uncanny ability to articulate the interests and hopes of the new classes—the immigrants and their children, the folk arriving in the cities in search of a better life. He understood their hopes and dreams, for he was one of them. The story of the handsome colonel and his pretty radio actress wife, Evita—both were born out of wedlock in small-town provincial Buenos Aires, conquering social stigma and disadvantage to make it to the top—and how they built a political movement that resonated with poorer Argentines, has been told often, in books and musicals and films. But outside the theater and myth, the reason that Peronism has endured beyond the deaths of its creators is that, in articulating the values and interests of this new Argentina, Perón created something far bigger than himself: a movement rather than a party, a culture rather than an interest group, a political hybrid so popular and absorbent that for decades it has dominated modern Argentina, overshadowing even those elections from which it was banned.
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