An interpretation on the class condition of the Communist Party of Argentina in its formative process

VÍCTOR AUGUSTO PIEMONTE

The International Newsletter of Communist Studies

The European Workshop of Communist Studies

Lugar: Potsdam; Año: 2011 vol. XVII p. 92 - 100

1862-698X

As part of a relatively new research field, the origins of the Argentinean communism were tackled by the historiographical production in an eminently uncritical way. The attention of the scholars in this regard focused mainly on the reconstruction of those facts raised around the First World War that conduced to the definitive fracture of the Socialist Party of Argentina and the emergence of the International Socialist Party (future Communist Party of Argentina). In this sense, the irruption of the communism into the Argentinean political system does not receive attention to its own specificities. On the contrary, the generalization of the hypothesis oriented to explain in the implicated period the inexistence of any attempt to set up a political party with a class nature prevailed. The aim of this article is to provide an interpretative view of the formative process of the PC in Argentina. The frictions that occurred within the Argentinean socialist movement, its development in time and its derivations for the party?s complex internal dynamics constitute the most important raw material at the moment of submitting to discussion the classist or non-classist character of the Communist Party of Argentina.