Populism: A Comparison of Varguism and Peronism

Abstract

This paper makes a comparative study between peronism and varguism, starting from the definition about both political movements as “populists”. In this context, this work will established relations among the way that the class aliance happened in both countries, as well searching differences among the dynamics that in each country prevailed. Populism, in both cases, appears as the result of vertiginous processes of economic modernization, characteristic of Latin American geopolitics. In this sense, analyzing populism necessarily implies thinking about the incorporation of the masses into public life, but also about industrial development and the conflicts inherent to that development, from which the working class will outline an active way to participate politically and economically.