Nationalism, third-worldism and political violence

John William Cooke and the rising of revolutionary Peronism

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This article aims to analyze the work of John William Cooke, an Argentine politician and thinker, and one of the main references of left Peronism. This work will focus on the following issues addressed by Cooke: popular revolutionary nationalism, ideology and the third-world movement, the formation of revolutionary Peronism and the praxis of political violence. For that, a direct reading of Cooke's texts will be made and compare his positions with those of other thinkers and politicians who expressed the struggles for national liberation in the Third World, especially Frantz Fanon. We conclude that Cooke's revolutionary nationalist position formed a rupture within Peronism by placing national socialism at the center of the Peronist program, in addition to representing in Argentine social formation the main anti-colonial movement linked to the struggles of the so-called Third World.