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LABOR MINISTER JUAN PERÓN
ON THE DANGERS OF
COMMUNISM, 1944
T
There are agitators among the masses who provoke disorder, and
besides cooperating actively with these there are political insti-
gators who add their purpose to that of the Communists. All these
contribute to the real causes of disturbance common among masses.
These are the real post-war enemies whom we shall have to face and
fight with systems that will have to be as effective and radical as cir-
cumstances require. If the struggle is free from disturbance it will be
fought quietly; if the struggle is a violent one the means to suppress it
will likewise be violent. . . .
The Communist party, hypothetic beneficiary of the campaign
against the government, has adopted a more skillful and well known
procedure; viz, infiltration among the workers. It acts like a wolf in
sheep's clothing. They pretend to support many acts of the govern-
ment but on the other hand they try to spoil social work. They pro-
mote strikes to claim the success of the solutions for themselves and
shout, Hail Perón! when they consider it the right moment. In spite
of which they try to mix with the masses to cause anarchy among
them and see if they can deviate them from their route. They claim
to have broken relations with the Democratic Union, yet like the lat-
ter they fight against the social justice of the government and against
the economic independence of the country. They try to bring about
a decrease in the production on land and in factories; to promote
increases in the salaries, to encourage petitions declaring unhealthy
work conditions; all these in the hope that a moment will come at
which the government will have to put an end to these excesses and
face the workers. It is evident that they obey foreign orders in an
organized sabotage. . . .
We wish to get rid of the extremists from trade union organizations
as they have, in our opinion, no matter what extremes they represent,
alien ideologies such as we Argentines have never felt an inclination for
and because they, with their sentiments of ancestral hatred bring us
their problems which neither interest nor concern us.
Source:
Perón, Juan Domingo.
Perón Expands His Doctrine
. Translated
by Argentine Association of English Culture (Buenos Aires: n.p., 1948),
pp. 326-328.
