The left-wing armed organization origin conditions during the years 1960-1970 in Argentina

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the conditions that paved the way for left-wing armed organizations during the 1960’s and 1970’s in Argentina. To achieve this goal, firstly, we will discuss the political conditions that triggered the popular reactive violence and subsequently the rationalized violence led by the guerilla organizations of the time. Secondly, we will discuss the socioeconomic determinants that could have motivated the origins of these organizations; and we will talk about whether Argentina was actually undergoing a deep economic crisis or if this point of view worked as a way to justify the origins of the armed struggle. At last, we will analyze some artistic productions developed during these years, having in mind that they can help understanding the assimilation that the revolutionary armed project of these organizations had and the use of violence's legitimacy to intervene in politics.