Los héroes y los muertos: sobre la violencia revolucionaria de los años setenta

Abstract

In this article, the meaning of the disciplined and sacrificial body of 1970s political activists in Argentina is analyzed. The starting point is the study of the armed organizations’ shared systems of social imaginary beliefs and expectations that not only determined their political course of action, but also gave its members’ actions a transcending projection. Furthermore, the biopolitical consequences of sacrifice, heroism and courage mandate over the revolutionary violence, internalized by the activists with different levels of demand and dramatic sense, are inquired.