El pensamiento político de Silvio Frondizi en los años cincuenta (1949-1958)

Abstract

In this article we reconstruct Silvio Frondizi's political thought during the fifties. To do so, we pay attention to his writings as well as his insertion in the intellectual and academic field. We describe briefly, first of all, his itinerary during the years of Perón's government, paying attention to both his militant activities and those of a propagandistic nature. We briefly consider the characteristics of La Realidad Argentina, the book that condensed the ideological evolution of its author and that constituted the theoretical foundation of the political program of the group. Next, we address the context opened by the overthrow of Peronism, in which the lawyer was able to work again as a university professor, at the same time that he became increasingly known and listened to by the active student movement. Finally, we examine the characteristics of Frondizi's political thought during the 1950s, focusing on those aspects that represented a break as well as those that implied continuity in relation to what he had expressed in the previous decade. Our hypothesis is that, although Silvio Frondizi spoke out in defense of the "Marxist-Leninist line" and the dictatorship of the proletariat, certain political positions that he had held in the 1940s, typical of his liberal-democratic thought, survived and were expressed within his new point of view.