Scalabrini Ortiz y el revisionismo histórico

Abstract

From his earliest political writings, Scalabrini Ortiz had an ambivalent relation with different historical figures and other nationalist writers. Although he is often considered as part of the so called “revisionismo histórico”, Scalabrini held important differences with other members of that group. In this paper, we will study some of the arguments, facts and historical figures which Scalabrini used as political tools, in his search of the historical moment in which Argentina lost its “historical destiny”. In this sense, we understand that from the 1930s, Scalabrini used history as a way to argue the existence of a continuous ideological line between historical figures such as Mariano Moreno, Juan Manuel de Rosas, Hipólito Yrigoyen and Juan Domingo Perón, with an objective: to create a political, historical and cultural imaginary related to nationalism and anti-imperialism.