Representation of Peronist unionism in Argentinian sociologist Roberto Carri’s works. From the “vandorismo” to the guerilla “Montoneros” (1967-1974)

Abstract

In the present paper we study the works of the Argentinian sociologist Roberto Carri, particularly his writings about unionism and Peronism, and the hegemonic sector after 1955, called “vandorismo”. We analyze three texts: the book Sindicatos y Poder en la Argentina (1967), the paper “Sindicalismo de participación, sindicalismo de liberación” (1971), and anonymous note published in a Montoneros magazine “Vandorismo. La política del imperialismo para los trabajadores peronistas” (1974). From these texts we took five elements: How Carri analyze the relationship between Peronism and unions in the years 1945-1955; the “crisis” of the unionism under the military government of Onganía from 1966; the extension of that “crisis”; the relationship between the “vandorismo” unionism and the Peronist left; the question of the “union bureaucracy”. Our goal is to analyze how Carri changed the representation of these elements in those texts, and its relation to his changes of political participation, first near the “vandorismo”, then the combative unions, and finally in the guerrilla Montoneros.