ABSTRACT
The military revolution of 1930 and political demobilization achieved by systematic electoral fraud and repression, created a deep political and moral crisis. Nationalism arose in response to an economic policy subordinated to the interests of the English and their allies in the Argentine oligarchy. The impact of the 1930 depression, though producing a crisis in export prices, was delayed in terms of employment in agriculture. The validity of social mobilization theory depends on the verification of the existence, volume, and behavior of nonurban masses. Acculturation to urban life and to the industrial type of work, or to modern work in general, requires many years. The formation of a syndicalist working-class political culture necessarily extends over more than one generation. Agricultural work is not the only nonindustrial or nonmodern work experience. Analysts of the composition of the urban lower classes lead us to conclusions analogous to those obtained by observing changes in the economic structure.
