During the 70's, a national group of intellectuals were all the rage among college youth in Argentina. Dictatorship through, they were forgotten. Arturo Jauretche, Sacalabrini Raul Ortiz, John William Cooke, Juan José Hernández Arregui and many others. The latter wrote several books such as The formation of national consciousness or what is to be national?, Among others. Hernández Arregui study addressed cultural imperialist penetration in our country. Rereading his writings (via a very good job of Carlos Piñeiro Iñiguez, "Thinking the popular nationalism from a Marxist") I do for others Current:
"... a widespread blanket of lies covering called Western Christian civilization. The same information, the same newspaper food scientifically orchestrated by a handful of news agencies, mostly American, are the monstrous Megaphones global trusts that direct the international economy and freeze public opinion in an aberrant view of life. This information daily with millions of human beings is nothing but the screen distorting the real world brought by the monopolies. The economic imperialism cultural imperialism pairs . 90% of political news, financial, artistic, comic books for Children and adults are taken over by ten argencias news of unlimited power diffuser ... narcotics are ideological factories, stunted mental goods in the cultural infantilism, or half-truths, millions of people in the metropolis and the colonies. Nobody is totally immune to the fabric of capitalist propaganda. Of these invasions mental imperialism of this dumbing down teaching concentrated psychological handling the large plants in order to induce the inhabitants of the metropolis to the most trivial optimism, and the colonies to look the same with foreign eyes. So, hopefully imported "
" ... the centralized metropolis and world control the mass media culture and insistent point with special coordination that mental freeze layers intellectuals in backward countries. The delay is presented as atavistic and in any case, intrinsic to the country itself and not as an organized practice scientifically coercion by the colonial system of life (that is, in fact) by the dominant nation ... "
"... national consciousness is the Argentine people's struggle for liberation. In this sense, the interest in history is the conscience of freedom as a necessity. This is collective consciousness even though their formulations conscious individual minds arise. This awareness has resisted and resist other forces ... multiracial character and class division of society in Argentina, factors that have exerted an effective influence through the educational system of the oligarchy in the apocryphal cultural vision of vast sectors of the Argentine country.
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