Re: Social Imperialism [DMS, Huato]

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

El Martes 30 de Septiembre de 2003 a las 19:11,
M. Junaid Alam dijo sobre Social Imperialism [DMS, Huato] que:

> Europe got rid of its
> undesirables in the 19th century as they shipped off to Argentina to
> replace and exterminate the natives on fertile land in the Pompas.

That was the idea. Yes, that was the idea and by 1910 it risked to 
become a real danger, a Pampa colonized by foreign communities, 
criscrossed by areas of settlement for "national" and confessional 
groups trampling over what remained of local population: Italians in 
Santa Fe and Córdoba, Jews in Entre Ríos, French in Entre Ríos and in 
the port city of Rosario, closed neighborhoods in Buenos Aires for 
Italians, "Russians" (Jews), "Turks" (Arabs), exclusive British 
hamlets peppered in the larger towns as enclaves of the Empire....

Fortunately enough, this did not happen the way it was expected. The 
project failed, and in the deep underworld of the lower classes, 
natives intermingled freely with the poorest newcomers thus giving 
birth to the Argentinean working class, the core to the history of 
current Argentina.

And as to the remaining migrants, the strong cultural tradition of 
the Federal party, the mass party of the 19th Century, managed to 
transform itself and to culturally colonize (albeit not without 
serious flaws and difficulties) those migrants who were lucky enough 
to make part of the middle classes.

In 1918, the Reforma Universitaria movement, made up basically of 
children of those migrants, made the first call in more than 50 years 
to Latin American Unity and to the unity between students and 
workers.  Though this movement was partly kidnapped by the sepoy Left 
a couple of decades later, the flame set up at Córdoba, 1918, had a 
very bright carreer, ending up with Fidel Castro and the Cuban 
Revolution.

The last remnants of that "colonial" Argentina can be found both in 
some relict parties of the "liberal" fringe (Radicalism, and most 
noteworthy the Partido Demócrata Progresista), and in most parties of 
what is known as the "Left", a sorry situation for true leftists 
here.

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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"Sí, una sola debe ser la patria de los sudamericanos".
Simón Bolívar al gobierno secesionista y disgregador de 
Buenos Aires, 1822
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