Los inicios del Partido Comunista Argentino: dinámica y contradicciones de la economía argentina

This work aims to analyze the characterization of the Argentine economy made by the Argentine Communist Party (PCA) in its first decades as a political formation. Initially established as the International Socialist Party in 1918, after its definition as a communist group in 1920, it began the process of integration into the Communist International (Comintern). In the wake of Soviet hegemony over the development of directives for the actions of national parties, the theses on the Latin American reality defined in 1928 during the VI Congress of the Comintern laid the foundations on which the PCA diagnosed the national economic reality.The deepening of the study of the structural characteristics of the agricultural country by Argentine communism was conditioned by the search to make its conclusions compatible with the formulations of the Comintern on the semi-colonial situation in Latin America, and the inter-imperialist confrontation between Great Britain and the United States as main axis of its dynamics.This situation caused the knowledge of the national economic structure, which should provide relevant elements for the construction of the political strategy, to privilege its classification with the formulations of the Communist International on Latin America. This conditioned the perspectives to be adopted and the conclusions that could be derived, hindering the development of an alternative vision on the crisis of the agricultural model and the interests of the sectors associated with the growth of the substitute industry at this stage in the country's history, as later self-criticisms recognize this.It is concluded that the analysis that communism carried out on the Argentine economy in this stage, contributed to the greater knowledge that the PCA was acquiring about its characteristics. However, it faced the contradiction that had to be responded to by aligning with the perspective of the International, which prevailed both for reasons associated with the constitutive order of this organization in its relationship with the national parties, and for the fact that the relations with the bureaucracy of the Comintern had been decisive in the consolidation of the party leading group