Objectivism and “National Left” in Poesía civil

Abstract

In Sergio Raimondi's Poesia civil the critique of political-economy has a clear precedent in the essayists identified with the so called “National Left” or “Peronist Left”: Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, Arturo Jauretche, Hernández Arregui, adding also some moments of Ezequiel Martínez Estrada´s work. Even though this influence hasn´t gained yet complete aknowledgment, it´s critical program embodies one of the most ambitious moments in Raimondi´s book: notably in it´s penultimate section, we can see displayed a historical diagnosis which aims straight to the core of economic liberalism. The retrieval of the “national-left” puts the objectivist motto “not ideas but in things” within a discussion not already closed for the author. And on the other hand, the objectivist rendering of the nationalist issues update this critique, making something new of it in the context of neoliberal hegemony at the end of the twenty century.