1955's Liberating Revolution and the emergence of Neoliberal reason

Abstract

This article explores a controversial terrain. First, because it seeks to account for the consubstantial link between neoliberalism and violence, something unacceptable to those who argue that it is a doctrine of freedom and limitation of power. Secondly, because we do it since the mid-twentieth century, that is, a few decades before what is usually considered as the moment of its emergence. Neoliberalism, like all rationality, is built gradually over time and, in the case at hand, was made from an important advance of its ideas and implementation in a fragmented manner in different scenarios. It is possible because we understand neoliberalism as much more than an economic doctrine, it is rather a mode of existence that colonizes our behavior. The triumph of neoliberalism is taking root beyond the violence that accompanies it and that has been a condition of its possibility. In this way, our goal is to recognize a certain matrix from the mid-twentieth century in Argentina where neoliberalism begins to acquire a certain form, and it is always accompanied by forms of violence that, while destroying, also produce new subjectivities and new realities.