The Formative Period of an Intellectual: Milcíades Peña and Trotskyism in the 1940s and 1950s

Abstract

Milciades Peña was one of the most important intellectuals of the Argentine left in the twentieth century. Proposed a marxist view original and critical on the national past, the country’s socio-economic structure, the ruling class and the peronism. In this article, based on the analysis of primary sources, examines issues little explored: the way in which sentence was inserted into one of the trends in argentine trotskyism; features theoretical, political, organizational and program of the stream; and the incidence that this experience had militant in the intellectual training of Peña. The proposed hypothesis is that, while the theoretical production of Peña later was becoming an extraordinary lucidity and creative autonomy, can hardly be understood without their previous contexts militants.