Capitalist Ethic to Posliberalism: Mariano Grondona and a Cultural-Political Reading of Liberal Development in Democracy (1983-1999)

Abstract

This article seeks to delve on the figure of one of the centrals intellectuals of Argentinean liberal-conservatism: the journalist and essayist Mariano Grondona. This is done throw the context opened by the democratic reconstruction of 1983. The work seeks to address the argumentation that articulated Grondona´s concerns at this stage: the link between liberalism and development. This marked a clear stage in his thinking, which allows us to see the ideological movements, the discursive turns of an author who, having been historically linked to the search for development through civil governments as well as dictatorships, built his bridge to the new democratic space rebuilding his own path. The text seeks to make a contribution on the resignifications of historical liberalism and the proposal of a liberal option for the political system that Grondona carried out over two decades, with emphasis on the books he pub[1]lished in those years, where he deepened and systematized his concerns expressed in the press.