The crisis in Argentina

Abstract

The struggles of the Argentine proletariat and sub-proletariat since the 1990s must be read within a class recomposition shaped by the new capitalist stage, of which Argentina was one of the neoliberal “models” in Latin America. In this framework, the working class has been rearticulated in its most subordinate position of the last half century, losing political centrality to the middle class. The December crisis expresses the political non-viability of the middle class and the political absence of the working class in a context of intense intra-bourgeois struggle. The outlook is one of greater social decomposition, given the inability to build a political project alternative to neoliberalism capable of including and mobilizing the working class.