[LONG EFFORTPOST]

Hello liberals, I will give my balance on ’s Argentina and how things are as of right now, November 2024. But my talk will not be about the cringe ass ancap, I will talk about Peronism and their role as opposition.

As some of you might recall, milei’s violent rethoric against “public” education (and I put public on quotes because I have another definition of what is public and what isn’t) triggered a nation-wide response from universities as many of them were occupied by the students. Mine was among the first to do so, not unlikely considering it is an historic hotbed for left wing militacy, even though today it’s not as good as it used to be.

Anyways, the movement gained traction but, as with many things, the lack of coordination and some… sabotage from within slowly but surely eroded it. It was to be expected, some universities are not really politicized because of course people who study complex mathematics don’t have time to read Marx or something, and others have either shit soccdem or peronist leadership and fighting is not for them. My university ended up abandoning the occupation after like 20 days or so, we fought heavily to keep it running but at the end of the day we had to leave it. During the last assemblies, our struggle was directly against peronists and their party structure, who began to attempt to dissolve the movement to “take the fight elsewhere”, in accordance with their general policies.

But nothing is really a failure, no matter how bad it looks. There’s always experiences to draw upon and lessons to learn. Our lesson is that you just can’t trust peronist-aligned groups, no matter how “radical” they may seem, because they have non-revolutionary agendas and are NOT anti-capitalist, they’re just reformists who want to play nice and with some rules. The student’s leadership in our university is ideologically aliged with the authorities, all are peronists. Then, a professor in one assembly said “There is fear among the authorities that this kind of assemblies might go out of control and become truly democratic and truly horizontal, some people are indeed fighting not for the common good but for their comfort positions”. And he, in just a few sentences, described peronism and how they view the struggle against milei.

There has been a very alarming lack of action from the main confederation of unions, the CGT. They are the ones who say “Okay, general strike” and there will be a general strike, their level of reach and organization is unmatched. Unfortunately, the leadership of the CGT and of the many unions that form it are either all peronists or something else, few if any are leftist. The fact they haven’t called for strikes in nearly one year of suicidal policies by milei is indeed alarming, it’s especially bad considering the CGT has been active and calling for strikes EVEN against former peronist governments. They’re nothing but a rotten group of decadent old white men who weaponized class struggle and left it at the mercy of a grotesque bureaucracy.

So if you don’t see much action it’s because peronism has an interest to cut a deal and keep people away from doing dangerous commie things. They don’t want spontaneous organisation by workers where they take matters into their own hands. After all, peronism is anti-communist despite what some confused folks of the Communist Party think, “United Front” my fucking dick and balls lmfao, losers. I believe that peronism understand milei as a temporary anomaly, that things will “go back to normal” once he expires, they’re old fashioned politicians who think the new kind of “outsiders” are short lived. Well, the normalcy we once knew is dead, even more when the latest capitalist crisis cycles are getting worse and worse.

They do want to go out to the streets, but only on their terms. Meanwhile they’re trying to craft Cristina Fernández de Kirchner back to a presentable leader, as she just assumed control of the Justicialist Party (main peronist electoral party), but she is responsible for getting us into this mess in the first place. Then, once society reaches a point of near collapse, that’s when they’ll mobilize and cut a deal with the milei government for some sort of “peaceful transition”, maybe in the midst of heavy repression like it happened during the December 2001 Riots. Peronism after all is Capital’s safe bet when it comes to “social peace”.

Therefore, to me it becomes evident that there must be a concentrated effort to organize the working class OUTSIDE the influence of peronism. It’s a job that will take years, or maybe not, who knows. The Trots have been doing that fairly well, if anything since the 2000’s they’ve been consistently growing and taking more spaces than before. And while Trots have a shitton of problems, their general stance is a million times better than peronist “we’ll give you a better salary XD” policies that reproduce capitalism. Still, agitation becomes necessary and desirable.

Things will continue to decay, milei might “accelerate” the economy for the midterms but that’ll make it crash later down the line. I think our goal as leftists is to convince those who felt betrayed by peronism and who hate neoliberalism to join the ranks of Socialism, and I can tell you slowly but surely more people are feeling just like that.