Two years of milei for a reactionary transformation

Many unbelievers said this Argentina A right projectthat this was typical of dictatorships, which happened between 1930 and the genocidal coup of 1976/83.

Constitutional governments since 1916 followed the “reformist” tradition, with the word “progress” meaning “agricultural, university, or tax reform.”

Well, in the 90s the category was redefined and “state reform” included a series of reactionary initiatives that were expanded to other regressive transformations, pensions, education and health.

Everything with the seal “Privatizations” and the rise of private capital.

Strictly speaking, the change in meaning of the word “reform” is linked to cultural changes arising from the structural changes being driven in contemporary, local and global capitalism.

Capital’s offensive against labor over the last half century was accompanied by a manipulation of consensus that favored a dynamic of intensified individualism of the everyman for himself, in contrast to the historical logic of promoting social solidarity and the hegemonic character of socially adopted politics.

Political surprises for regressive transformations

In 2007 The first surprise came with the triumph of Mauricio Macri in the city of Buenos Aires, who became president in 2015. The return of Peronism-Kirchnerism to government in 2019 appeared to be a return to normality in constitutional processes.

But 2023 showed us the new normal. The right could achieve an electoral consensus with a reactionary program.

The change in the meaning of the word “reform” is linked to cultural changes arising from the structural changes being advanced in contemporary capitalism.”

As I said, many continued to think that this would not last, but the October 2025 midterm elections surprised again.

It is true that the “aid” from the IMF and USA has contributed to this phenomenon, but at the same time sheds light on aspects of a new normal in constitutional times and calls for a review of the political and ideological response to the strategy of economic, local and global power.

2023 showed us the new normal. “The right could achieve an electoral consensus with a reactionary program”

With the triumph of the midterm elections comes a deepening of adjustment and reactionary restructuring, particularly in relation to the relationship between capital and labor.

The adjustment will continue as the need to cancel will increase rising interest rates on national debt.

In addition, as long as the recessionary trend in current production continues, the Financial crisis Due to low collection, deepening will occur, resulting in higher debt.

Milei and Caputo’s “solution” is to borrow more at high interest rates, as was the case with a loan on the local market 1,000 million US dollars.

The government emphasizes manipulative This is the beginning of access to the external capital market when it comes to exploring the possibilities of resorting to private external financing.

In government, everything is trial and error seasoned with the immense support of the government IMF and Trump, with whom it is difficult to imagine that there are any limits. Of course, the uncertainty of the American midterm elections in 2026 is a burden.

Time is of the essence and that is why we must now do everything we can, as evidenced by the call for extraordinary meetings to adopt an adjustment budget and by the structural reforms demanded by the most concentrated capital, especially in the USA “Labor counterreform” and others in tax, education and criminal matters, then move on to the pension issue.

The politics, i.e. the electoral consensus, plays in favor of the Milei government, which envisions turning Patagonia into today’s Dubai. The south of the country is home to the resources that transnational capital needs in times of technological innovation, especially artificial intelligence (AI).

Hence the expectations of foreign investors to install data centers in cold Patagonia and its abundant water and energy supplies.

Discipline the popular movement… can they?

These capitals require legal guarantees for the registration of their investments. Progress in legislation is not enough for them, whether through decrees or laws, in the case of the Bases Law or the RIGI contained therein.

They demand “legal certainty” for their investments and the disposal of surpluses to send abroad, based on the global logic of accumulation by transnational corporations.

The voice that unites big business represents the strategic defeat of Labor movement.

Is Class strugglein one of the countries that has one of the greatest traditions of organization and struggle of the labor movement, not only in its “union” version but also in its “territorial” version.

The prelude to the present was the anti-picket protocol and repression to install a reactionary logic legal restructuring which the government is proposing for these two years of government.

Labor reform: will it create more or fewer jobs?

They intend to arrive free of political and legal uncertainty until the presidential renewal in 2027.

The discussion takes place in the political opposition, which calls for greater mobilized and organized social density in order to give a perspective to a strategy of confrontation with the possibilities of conflict over government and power.

This is something that is not possible from the political traditions of another time Capital regime local.

The political crisisor representation, also affects popular organizations.

The thing is: if in the constitutional period opened in 1983 there were structural changes that allowed the arrival of the right with electoral consensus and reorganized the political space in the country, then the political reorganization of the popular movement and the subaltern classes required creativity and initiative to produce new political and ideological responses.

Is it enough to renovate the dome? CGT and your call to mobilize against labor reform?

Is the criticism of a broad battle space against the trade union centers and their critical statements against official politics and their accomplices sufficient?

Further organizational and combative initiatives are needed that must demonstrate the ability to intervene in the dispute over Argentina’s present and future.