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21 - Anarchism and Syndicalism in Argentina

from Africa, Asia, Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
Geoffroy de Laforcade
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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Summary

In Argentina, militant newspapers and small circles of affinity groups, as well as craft-based societies of workers and artisans, and immigrant and artist groups, formed a vast and variegated constellation of anarchist tendencies before and after the turn of the twentieth century, some individualist, some insurrectionalist, and some favourable to organization and unification. Followers of Peter Kropotkin and Errico Malatesta advocated a loose federation of horizontally co-ordinated associations that would create new forms of anti-authoritarian participation and representation based on localities and regions, rather than unions or national governments.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 510 - 533
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Baer, James, Anarchist Immigrants in Spain and Argentina (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015).Google Scholar
Bayer, Osvaldo, The Anarchist Expropriators: Buenaventura Durruti and Argentina’s Working-Class Robin Hoods (Chico, CA: AK Press, 2015).Google Scholar
de Laforcade, Geoffroy, and Shaffer, Kirwin (eds.), In Defiance of Boundaries: Anarchism in Latin American History (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hirsch, Steven, and van der Walt, Lucien (eds.), Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Post-Colonial World, 1880–1940 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011).Google Scholar
Munck, Ronaldo, with Falcón, Ricardo and Galitelli, Bernardo, Argentina from Anarchism to Peronism: Workers, Unions, and Politics, 1855–1985 (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books, 1987).Google Scholar
Suriano, Juan, Paradoxes of Utopia: Anarchist Culture and Politics in Buenos Aires, 1890–1910 (Chico, CA: AK Press, 2010).Google Scholar

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