“Combatir al comunismo sin hacerle el juego”. Una aproximación a las memorias de militantes del Movimiento Nacionalista Tacuara

Abstract

The Movimiento Nacionalista Tacuara (MNT) was a movement of the Argentine nationalist right that operated between the late 1950s and the beginning of the 1970s. Ultra-Catholic, anti-Communist and anti-Semitic, they aimed to restore “order” under the slogan “God, Fatherland and Home”. We attempt to reconstruct the memory of former Tacuara activists about their use of violence, which mainly targeted Jews and left-wing people and institutions. For this purpose, we use interviews conducted to former MNT 1* Se exponen aquí algunas ideas debatidas, como integrante del Grupo Colaborador, en el proyecto de investigación “Culturas políticas y discursividad. Santa Fe, 1912-2001”, que se lleva adelante en la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias (UNL), en el marco de la Programación CAI+D 2016 de la Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica. Recibido: 12 de mayo de 2020; aceptado: 20 de febrero de 2021; publicado: 31 de marzo de 2021. Revista Historia Autónoma, 18 (2021), pp. 129-148 e-ISSN: 2254-8726; https://doi.org/10.15366/rha2021.18.007 130 Revista Historia Autónoma, 18 (2021), e-ISSN: 2254-8726 activists, applying the tools of oral History. We will observe that there is an attempt to distance themselves from anti-Semitism and an attempt to transmute anti-communism into an activism that pursued the realization of a national revolution. In addition, we will observe the emergence of male codes that characterize the violence exerted by the group.