Agrarian bourgeoisie, political conflict and institutional breakdowns. Argentina, 1975-2008

Abstract

This article focuses on the reconstruction of the conflict between the agrarian argentinian bourgeoisie and the national government, headed by Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, between March and July 2008. These inter-bourgeois confrontation are compared with their immediate predecessor, the “agricultural strikes” of 1975, with which the rural corporations began an offensive to drive the coup of March 1976, whose program was to eliminate the revolutionary threat and boosting capital accumulation. We will rebuild the social alliances competing in both situations, its components, its programs and activities, with particular attention to political action undertaken by the agrarian bourgeoisie. We seek to unravel in this way the nature of both crises, their similarities and differences.