Developmentalism and progress in Argentina: a Marxist contribution

Abstract

Developmentalism as a political ideology unnerved much of the Latin American pattern of the 1950s and 1960. While many times it can be understood as the mere adaptation of Keynesianism and development economics to regional conditions, their ideological sources were much more complex. Its hybrid configuration contained a mixture of nationalism, development economics, along with Marxism and positivism. Among the ideologists of Argentine developmentalism, we want to study the contribution of an orthodox Leninist intellectual formation, Juan José Real, whose participation would be problematic in the context of the intensification of the Cold War. In a look that combined the idea of ”‹”‹law applied to history and will as a tool for change, Real argued that the historical period the country was required the formation of a political front whose aim should be the deepening of capitalist development, with the collaboration of foreign capital, as necessary to complete the formation of a nation under the leadership of a modernizing bourgeoisie