Social transformations and the offensive of the neo-fascist right in Argentina:

A political-pedagogical analysis of the State, labor, and education

Abstract

This article examines the current phase of neoliberalism in Argentina within the broader context of the global advance of authoritarian political projects. It argues that, beyond its economic dimensions, this process entails a comprehensive reorganisation of the social order in which the production of subjectivity assumes a strategic character. The transformation of material living conditions -the precarisation of labour, the feminisation of poverty, and the reconfiguration of the state- articulates with a struggle over meaning that tends to naturalise inequality, individualise responsibility, and delegitimise forms of collective organisation. Drawing on an approach that integrates the perspectives of internationalism, feminism, and popular education, the article offers a reading that brings together the material and symbolic dimensions of the process underway. Within this framework, the notion of the violating state is introduced to account for contemporary forms of vulnerability production and social suffering, as well as the role of denialism in the erosion of democratic consensuses built around Memory, Truth, and Justice. The article further argues that education constitutes a strategic field in the struggle over subjectivity, insofar as it operates as a privileged site for the production of meaning and the formation of collective subjects. As a conceptual contribution, it proposes the figure of a dialectical triangle articulating material conditions of existence, the production of subjectivity, and forms of collective organisation, as both an analytical tool and an instrument of praxis.