The twenty truths of peronism.

Moderator Councillor Joined: 02 Nov 2007 Posts: 605

Here are the twenty fundamental truths of the Peronist Justicialist movement. I have wanted to put them in one place so that each of you can engrave them in your mind and your heart; so that they are sent out as a message of love and justice to all parts; so that they can be practiced honorably and loyally; so that you live happily according to them, and also that you die happily in their defense, if that is necessary.
----Peron

The Twenty Truths:
1. True democracy is when the government does only what the people want and defends only one interest: that of the people.

2. Peronism is essentially popular. Any political circle is anti-popular and for that reason is not peronist.

3. The peronist works for the Movement. Anyone who in name serves a circle or a caudillo, is only one in name.

4. There does not exist for peronism more than one class of men: those who work.

5. In the New Argentina work is a right and is a duty, because it is just that everyone produces at least as much as one consumes.

6. For the peronist there is nothing better than another peronist.

7. No peronist should feel that he is more than he is, nor less than he should be. When a peronist begins to feel that he is more than he is, he begins to change into an oligarch.

8. In political action the scale of value of each peronist is the following: first the Fatherland, later the movement and later the men.

9. Politics for us is not the end, only the means for the good of the Fatherland, that is the happiness of its children and national greatness.

10. The two arms of peronism are Social Justice and Social Welfare. These embrace the people with justice and love.

11. Peronism desire national unity and not strife. It desires heroes but not martyrs.

12. In the New Argentina the only privileged ones are the children.

13. A government without doctrine is a body without soul. For this reason peronism has a political, economic, and social doctrine: Justicialism.

14. Justicialism is a new life philosophy, simple, practical, popular, profoundly Christian, and profoundly humanist.

15. As a political doctrine, Justicialism realizes the balance between the rights of the individual and the rights of the community.

16. As an economic doctrine, Justicialism makes real the social economy, putting capital to the service of the economy and that to the service of social well being.

17. As a social doctrine Justicialism achieves Social Justice, that which gives people their rights in the social order.

18. We want an Argentina socially Just, economically Free, and politically Sovereign.

19. We constitute a central government, an organized state and a free people.

20. In this land the best that we have is the people.

(Translated by T.M. Edsall)

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Is this at all fascist? should this document be a part of our exelent fascist libary? Peronism in actual politics might be seen as fascist, but this document explaining peronism is perhaps not.

What do you people think?

Black Brigade Regular Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 39

I think it is a kind of fascism.

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:57 pm

Agreed. I would point out that in all likelihood, Peron was simply another military general; his wife Eva was the real driving force behind everything. The first true "feminist," she would have been vice-president if not for the antiquated notions of Peron's military advisors, who couldn't stand to have a woman in a position of power.

Unfortunately, "Peronism" has split into two distinct groups: the original, Fascist-inspired wing, and a wing that is solidly Communist.

Moderator Councillor Joined: 02 Nov 2007 Posts: 605

Intresting. Peronism has been explained by some people as leftwing-fascism, but I didnt know that some peronists went as far as to become communists. The modern peronist party (the big one with 20-30% support on the national elections) are social democrats I have heard.

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:27 pm

I took a look at their site a few years ago (don't have the addy any more) and was just ... really disappointed.