Archivos de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda

Foreword

Hernán Camarero — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Foreword

Introduction to the Special Theme

Santiago M. Roggerone, Hernán Camarero — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Introduction to the Special Theme

Felix Weil in the Socialization Debate after the November Revolution in Germany: 1918-1921

Jacob Blumenfeld — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0300

In 1923, at the age of 25, the Argentine Félix Weil founded the Institut für Sozialforschung with a donation from his father, the grain merchant Hermann Weil. Weil was a student of Robert Wilbrandt, a professor at the University of Tübingen, who was a member of the Socialization Commission after the German Revolution of 1918-1919. Wilbrandt encouraged Weil to turn one of his essays on socialization into a dissertation, which was finally published in 1921. Weil’s text, Socialization, has never been translated, and has hardly ever been discussed. In this article, I will talk about Weil’s text, showing the context in which it emerged, the debate on socialization between 1918 and 1921 in Germany.

The Young Félix Weil and Argentina: Between Communism, the Study of the Labor Movement, and the Project of the Frankfurt Institute

Hernán Camarero — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0300

The article examines the experience of the young Félix Weil in Argentina (1920-1922), exploring his role as a business heir, emissary of the Comintern, and participant in the debates within the local communist movement. It focuses on a critical analysis of his book on the Argentine labor movement, highlighting its pioneering nature, the controversies with Russian émigrés, and his connection with the early Marxist currents that eventually led to the founding of the Frankfurt Institute.

Félix Weil, the Colegio Libre de Estudios Superiores and the Marxist Economics (1930-1940)

Natalia Bustelo — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0300

The article takes as its thread the participation of Félix Weil, during the thirties, in the Colegio Libre de Estudios Superiores and its review Cursos y Conferencias. He analyzes the discussions proposed by the three courses that Weil taught based on his link with the Independent Socialist Party and the Ministry of Finance, with the circulation of dialectical materialism and with the construction of an anti-fascist cultural front. This allows us to rescue a first Argentine reception of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt anchored in Marxist economics.

Felix Weil, Historian of the Present Time

José César Villarruel — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0300

This article examines how, between 1919 and 1955, Félix Weil underwent three distinct phases in his intellectual development and political engagement. His revolutionary training began with the soldiers and workers in Frankfurt. After his initial texts on socialization, he was drawn to the immediate history and problems of prices in a natural economy without a market. In 1930, it turned to the formulation of income-based tax systems and the theories of directed economies. From 1940 and 1950 he was involved in the debates of the period of formation of Peronism which were part of an even wider controversy around democracy, authoritarianism and totalitarianism.

"Out of the Ordinary". On the Life and Work of Félix Weil. Interview with Hans-Peter Gruber

Jacob Blumenfeld, Santiago M. Roggerone — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Interview with a Hans-Peter Gruber

Unconsciousness, Reification and Democratization in History and Class Consciousness

José Luis Moreno Pestaña — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0300

In this paper I present a reading of History and Class Consciousness, by Gyorgy Lukács, in which I highlight, firstly, the conception of the unconscious present in the work and, secondly, how a practice of democratization can be developed that makes explicit what is obscured in social practice. The article proposes an original axis of reading of the relationship between reification and democracy.

Sugar Strike and Employer Revenge: Strategies of Struggle and Working Experience in the Ledesma and La Esperanza Sugar Mills (1920-1949)

Nicolás Hernández Aparicio — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0300

This article aims to analyze the dynamics of the sugar strike in the Ledesma and La Esperanza sugar mills, in the province of Jujuy, during the crisis situation of the first Peronism around 1949. The “turn” in the Peronist
discourse has been pointed out, to the point of affirming that the outcome of the conflict involved curtailing the autonomy of the labor movement. With the internal sources of the second sugar mill and the periodical press, this article will focus on reconstructing it, starting from the fact that this situation of struggle was preceded by a series of actions that shaped the class practice of the sugar workers in Jujuy since the 1920s

The Division of the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU) and the Foundation of the Alianza Libertaria del Uruguay (ALU) (1963-1965): the Crisis of Tercerismo in the Anarchist Ranks

Maite Iglesias — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0300

This paper revisits the division of the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU) in the light of new archives and outlines the history of the Alianza Libertaria del Uruguay (ALU), an organization formed by some groups and people from the FAU after its split. The hypothesis is that the ALU tried to preserve the position known as tercerismo and the leftist anticommunism which was at its height within the anarchist movement at the end of the fifties, in a new context of realignment within the left, once the Cuban Revolution defined itself as Marxist-leninist.

Towards a New International History of Socialism: Recent Contributions from French Historiography

Lucas Poy — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Lucas Poy's texto analyzes three recent books dedicated to the history of socialism and internationalism.

Sancho Galán, Jordi. El antifranquismo en la universidad, 1956-1977. El protagonismo militante (1956-1977) (2024)

Mariano Millán — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Review of Jordi Sancho Galán, El antifranquismo en la universidad. El protagonismo militante (1956-1977), Barcelona, Catarata, 2024, 384 pgs.

Luis Campos, La Fortaleza. Sindicatos, Estado y relaciones de fuerzas (Argentina, 1945-2001) (2023)

Leandro Molinaro — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Review of de Luis Campos, La Fortaleza. Sindicatos, Estado y relaciones de fuerzas (Argentina, 1945-2001), Buenos Aires, Imago Mundi, 2023, 244 pgs.

Rodolfo Laufer, La CGT clasista de Salta. Radicalización obrera y peronismo revolucionario en la Salta de los años 70 (2024)

José Barraza — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0300

Review of Rodolfo Laufer, La CGT clasista de Salta. Radicalización obrera y peronismo revolucionario en la Salta de los años 70, Buenos Aires, Grupo Universitario Editor, 2024, 129 pgs.

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AAVV — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0300

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