Abstract

MANZANO, Valeria. From "Total Revolution" to Democracy: Siloism, Counterculture, and Politics in Argentina’s Recent History. Prismas [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.1, pp.115-135. ISSN 1852-0499.

This article reconstructs a history of the movement that, between the 1960s and the 1980s, developed around Mario Rodríguez Cobos, aka Silo. It analyzes the ideas and practices of the Siloist movement, the ways it appealed to successive cohorts of activists and militants, and the reactions it awoke in the politico-cultural arena. Shaped in the 1960s, its ideas included the certainty that the individual and society should change in a unique, "libertarian" movement as well as a critique to all hierarchical institution. Those ideas were combined with a peculiar notion of "liberation," from which the Siloist groups acted upon the political scenario. This article contents that the Siloist movement was part of a "new left" that searched for ways of solving the tensions between the making of new individual subjectivities and modes of collective action. Rather than vanishing during the last military dictatorship, that search was updated in the frame of the democratic opening in the 1980s, when the Siloist movement had become transnational and served as the basis for the creation of the Humanist Party, in 1984.

Keywords : Siloism; Counterculture; Recent.

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