Argentina Tried Democratic Socialism. Then Came the Chainsaw.
Subscribe and support at Underthrow.org.I don’t care much for politicians. Most of them are just the bosses of a legal mafia. But there are a few exceptions.
My current Number One is Javier Milei of Argentina.
But first, a trip down memory lane…
In 1913, an Argentine bricklayer earned more than a French one. Buenos Aires had electric trams before most of Europe. The phrase “rich as an Argentine” was something people said in Paris back then.
Then Argentina spent 70 years proving you can, in fact, unmake a rich country—deliberately, democratically, and with popular enthusiasm.
They had turned…
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