First of all, the answer is not "fascism," despite common misconceptions. Perón the man was sympathetic to fascism, and there have been fascist Peronists, but Peronism as a historical and political phenomenon should not be understood as a fascist movement.
It's nationalist economic populism, born from strong working-class support for (and cult of personality around) a particular charismatic, opportunistic general, and even moreso his wife Eva. I don't often recommend youtube videos, but this one is a good rundown. There's also a good Radio War Nerd episode about it.
Perón was the first politician in Argentina to represent the will of the urban working class (particularly, those who had recently migrated from rural Argentina rather than Europe, and therefore weren't initiated into socialism or anarchism), and the first to pass New Deal-like reforms to make their lives bearable.
Yes, because of the vagueness of the definition I used. I used it because Peronism has no good simple definition, as it's more of a historical phenomenon than a clear ideology. Gaullism is pretty different from Peronism, and better-defined. Gaullism is indisputably center-right, and has some clear tenets like presidential republicanism (owing to its Orléanist roots), France maintaining a world power status independent of its alliance with America and Britain, and state intervention in a market economy. It doesn't have an intense mutual hatred with the French cultural elite the way Peronism does in Argentina.
First of all, the answer is not "fascism," despite common misconceptions. Perón the man was sympathetic to fascism, and there have been fascist Peronists, but Peronism as a historical and political phenomenon should not be understood as a fascist movement.
It's nationalist economic populism, born from strong working-class support for (and cult of personality around) a particular charismatic, opportunistic general, and even moreso his wife Eva. I don't often recommend youtube videos, but this one is a good rundown. There's also a good Radio War Nerd episode about it.
Perón was the first politician in Argentina to represent the will of the urban working class (particularly, those who had recently migrated from rural Argentina rather than Europe, and therefore weren't initiated into socialism or anarchism), and the first to pass New Deal-like reforms to make their lives bearable.
That's also basically the definition of gaullism
Yes, because of the vagueness of the definition I used. I used it because Peronism has no good simple definition, as it's more of a historical phenomenon than a clear ideology. Gaullism is pretty different from Peronism, and better-defined. Gaullism is indisputably center-right, and has some clear tenets like presidential republicanism (owing to its Orléanist roots), France maintaining a world power status independent of its alliance with America and Britain, and state intervention in a market economy. It doesn't have an intense mutual hatred with the French cultural elite the way Peronism does in Argentina.