Counterinsurgency state repression during the Kirchnerist governments in Argentina (2003-2013)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the social correspondences between economic policy and state-police repressive policy in Argentine society between the years 2003 and 2013, highlighting the connections these policies maintain with the interests of specific social classes (such as the bourgeoisie, bureaucracy, intellectuals, etc.). It seeks to understand how underprivileged social classes (the proletariat, lumpenproletariat, service class, etc.) are affected by these state economic and repressive policies, focusing in particular on the police dynamics involved in the implementation of counterinsurgency repression, as observed in emblematic episodes of state-police repression during a decade of progressive Kirchnerist governments. After presenting our general theoretical-methodological framework — namely, contemporary Marxist social theory and the dialectical method — the study turns to a specific social reality: the correspondence between the productive dynamics of neoliberal capitalism and its related forms of social regulation, with particular emphasis on its counterinsurgency repressive policy in Argentine society.