Periodismo y militancia socialista en Buenos Aires a fines del siglo XIX

Abstract

The objective of the article is to analyze the tensions that the journalistic modernization caused in the socialist militancy of Buenos Aires, as it was expressed in the ideas and journalistic practices of its main promoters. To this end, two perspectives are favored: 1) The history of the weekly La Vanguardia, in particular its constitution as a physical and discursive space of political sociability, key to party life in its early years; 2) The contrast between the representations that the Socialists drew from the journalistic activity and the trajectories that were made in this field by two prominent leaders such as Juan B. Justo and Adrián Patroni.