Post by account_disabled on Feb 22, 2024 4:21:11 GMT -5
Reflections after years It is impossible to characterize the Argentine transition without taking into account the strong weight that ideas had in those years. It was necessary to design a political program that not only eradicated the authoritarian practices that had spread with particular cruelty under the dictatorship but also established an ethical functioning of the institutions and the State.
It was in short a vision full of idealism with overtones of European Lebanon Mobile Number List democracy combining respect for market capitalism with the idea of a modern and beneficent State and a strong anchoring in the issue of human rights. When the events of Holy Week made it clear that the path towards that ideal democracy was much more convoluted than expected the centerleft Peronist politician Carlos Chacho lvarez did not take long to declare from the pages of Unidos magazine that the project of the government was a model that reality was responsible for shatteringtwenty.
lvarezs comment attacked precisely the idealism with which Alfonsinism had been conducted. This idealism was not only a product of Alfonsns theoretical concerns but also of the privileged place that intellectuals had. there was of the presidents own inclination for ideas of the future and how much there was of the role that intellectuals played thanks to the dynamism they gave to the transition but without a doubt that conjunction was particular although not new. In Argentina the Generation of had already started a tradition of combining ideals and politics.