Savage
23rd May 2011, 11:49
Anti-Capitalism or Anti-Imperialism?
Interwar Authoritarian and Fascist Sources of A Reactionary
Ideology:
The Case of the Bolivian MNR (http://bthp23.com/Bolivia.pdf)
(whole thing was too big for the thread title)
The following recounts the evolution of the core pre-MNR intelligentsia and future leadership of the movement and its post-1952 government from anti-Semitic, pro-fascist, pro-Axis ideologues in the mid-1930's to bourgeois nationalists receiving considerable US aid after 1952. The MNR leadership, basically after Stalingrad, began to "reinvent itself" in response to the impending Allied victory, not to mention huge pressure from the U.S. in various forms starting ca. 1942. However much the MNR purged itself of its "out-of-date" philofascism by the time it came to power, I wish to show it in the larger context of the top-down, state-driven corporatism that developed in key Latin American countries in this period, specifically Argentina, Brazil and (in a different way) Mexico, through the Cardenas period. The following is a demonstration that, contrary to what contemporary complacent leftist opinion in the West thinks, there is a largely forgotten history of reactionary populist and "anti imperialist" movements in the underdeveloped world that do not shrink from mobilizing the working class to achieve their goals. This little-remembered background is all the more important for understanding the dynamics of the left-populist governments which have emerged in Latin America since the 1990’s.
Interwar Authoritarian and Fascist Sources of A Reactionary
Ideology:
The Case of the Bolivian MNR (http://bthp23.com/Bolivia.pdf)
(whole thing was too big for the thread title)
The following recounts the evolution of the core pre-MNR intelligentsia and future leadership of the movement and its post-1952 government from anti-Semitic, pro-fascist, pro-Axis ideologues in the mid-1930's to bourgeois nationalists receiving considerable US aid after 1952. The MNR leadership, basically after Stalingrad, began to "reinvent itself" in response to the impending Allied victory, not to mention huge pressure from the U.S. in various forms starting ca. 1942. However much the MNR purged itself of its "out-of-date" philofascism by the time it came to power, I wish to show it in the larger context of the top-down, state-driven corporatism that developed in key Latin American countries in this period, specifically Argentina, Brazil and (in a different way) Mexico, through the Cardenas period. The following is a demonstration that, contrary to what contemporary complacent leftist opinion in the West thinks, there is a largely forgotten history of reactionary populist and "anti imperialist" movements in the underdeveloped world that do not shrink from mobilizing the working class to achieve their goals. This little-remembered background is all the more important for understanding the dynamics of the left-populist governments which have emerged in Latin America since the 1990’s.