La The rural conflict in the northeast region of Argentina. The experience of the agricultural leagues from the perspective of argentine Maoism

Abstract

Latin America attended a convulsive stage in the '60s and' 70s, marked by the rise of the revolutionary threat in a significant number of countries, the growth of conflict in factories and universities and the manifestations of street forces. Argentina did not escape this reality. It was even one of the territories where these conflicts were deployed with greater intensity. In the rural area, a particularly mobilized region was that of the Northeast, where productions were located that, in the framework of the capitalist crisis that the sector was going through, underwent important processes of concentration and centralization of capital. In these regions the so-called Agrarian Leagues emerged strongly. A vast and complex conglomerate of social classes and layers gave rise to a heterogeneous movement, whose claims ranged from the demand for support prices for its production, to the dispute over land ownership. In this article we propose to address the phenomenon of rural and territorial conflict in the northeast region of Argentina. In particular, we approach the problem from the examination of the leftist political parties, affiliated with the Maoist tradition. We selected, as a case study, the Revolutionary Communist Party. To do this, we use primary sources, in particular congressional documents and the theoretical magazine of the party (Theory and Politics), which allow us to reconstruct as I understood the Argentine agriculture and the social subjects that existed there, this organization. In turn, the study of its periodic press (New Hour), allows us to recompose the concrete intervention of this party on the movement of the Agricultural Leagues. We are interested in delving into unexplored terrain, such as that of political objectives and the actions of organizations that were committed to profound social transformations, in a scenario as conflictive as little addressed: rural. In this way, we believe to collaborate to complex the available knowledge about social conflict at a stage where it became central. We believe we can contribute to the complexity of what is known about social subjects, repertoires of action, types of conflict and development of the left in an agrarian territoriality.