From the revolution interrupted to its start-up. Compañero and a revolutionary rereading of the Peronism in the early 1960s

Abstract

The article examines the reinterpretation of the Peronist phenomenon that Compañero, a weekly linked to the combative sectors of Peronism in the early 1960s, made. An hermeneutic analysis of the content of the publication is made from the methodological and theoretical tools elaborated by the sociology of identities. The portrait that Compañero elaborates about Peronism allowed it, simultaneously, to link to the Peronist tradition and also to polemicize with the sectors that, trying to locate themselves within the movement led by Perón, tried to question the preponderant role that he had. In this sense, the recovery of a "revolutionary essence" in Peronism that the Compañero developed allowed it not only to restore Perón's injured authority but even more to revalidate itself as a legitimate actor within the movement.