Abstract

SUAREZ, Fernando Manuel. The heirs of the University Reform: The National Reform Movement (MNR) and the argentine reformist tradition. Av. Cesor [online]. 2019, vol.16, n.20, pp.147-165. ISSN 1514-3899.

In this article we will analyze the experience of the National Reform Movement (MNR), a student organization that served as the seedbed of what would later become the Popular Socialist Party (PSP), especially the way in which this group adopted the reformist discourse and articulated it to shape a relatively stable political identity that sustained over time. In order to do so, we will first investigate the distinctive features of the MNR in its process of constitution and consolidation in the 1960s: its origins, its main leaders and its ideological vectors. Then, in second instance, we will review the “reformist tradition” as it were recovered by the MNR, its programmatic lines, its intellectual referents and its political-ideological project, and how it served as an identity focus. In this sense, we will see how reformism became a nodal reference in the configuration of the MNR and in its subsequent course, a distinctive mark, with a certain political potential, in times where political radicalization and the revitalization of Peronism prevailed.

Keywords : University Reform; Reformist tradition; National Reform Movement; Political identities.

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