Editing Peronism (section)

===Self-description===
Perón himself described his ideology and his movement as left-wing, writing in September 1973: "Peronism is a left-wing movement. But the left that we advocate is a Justicialist left above all things; it is not a communist or anarchist left. It is a Justicialist left that wants to achieve a community where each Argentine can flourish."<ref>{{cite book |title=Argentina's Lost Patrol: Armed Struggle 1969-1979 |first=Maria Jose |last=Moyano |publisher=Yale University Press |year=1995 |isbn=0-300-06122-6 |location=New Haven and London |page=37}}</ref> Perón named [[Christian socialism]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Harold Laski]] his main political inspirations.<ref name="ocampos">{{cite journal |title=Capitalism, Populism and Democracy: Revisiting Samuelson’s Reformulation of Schumpeter |date=21 December 2023 |issn=1668-4583 |editor=Jorge M. Streb |doi=10.5209/ijhe.90271 |journal=Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=91-103 |url=https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/IJHE/article/view/90271|doi-access=free }}</ref> He argued that his main goal was to implement and declare "economic independence" of Argentina, which he sought to achieve by nationalization of Argentinian resources, state control of the economy, curtailing multinational and foreign companies, redistribution of wealth, asserting the "power of the working class", and abolishing capitalism that the Peronists denounced as elitist and "antinational". By 1973, the slogan adopted by Perón became "dependency or liberation".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Pedagogy of Revolution and Counterrevolution in Cold War Argentina, 1966-1983 |first=Federico |last=Sor |publisher=ProQuest LLC. |year=2016 |location=New York |page=1}}</ref> In July 1971, Perón also claimed that his ideology of justicialism is socialist:
{{blockquote|text=For us Justicialist Government is that which serves the people . . . our revolutionary process articulates individual and collective [needs], it is one form of socialism. Therefore a fair socialism, like the one Justicialism wants, and that is why it is called Justicialism, is that in which a community develops in agreement with [the community's] intrinsic conditions.<ref name="lostpat33">{{cite book |title=Argentina's Lost Patrol: Armed Struggle 1969-1979 |first=Maria Jose |last=Moyano |publisher=Yale University Press |year=1995 |isbn=0-300-06122-6 |location=New Haven and London |page=33}}</ref>}}

However, despite Perón's declarations, the movement itself was split into left-wing and right-wing factions, vying for supremacy within the movement.<ref>{{cite book |title=Argentina's Lost Patrol: Armed Struggle 1969-1979 |first=Maria Jose |last=Moyano |publisher=Yale University Press |year=1995 |isbn=0-300-06122-6 |location=New Haven and London |page=34}}</ref> While all Peronists claimed to adhere to the ideas of Perón, their interpretation of Perón's intentions varied greatly. Left-wing Peronists believed that the goal of Perón was to establish "the socialist nation", while right-wing Peronists argued that Perón's vision is more similar to corporatism rather than socialism, and that Perón's vision is one of establishing an "organized community".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Pedagogy of Revolution and Counterrevolution in Cold War Argentina, 1966-1983 |first=Federico |last=Sor |publisher=ProQuest LLC. |year=2016 |location=New York |page=18}}</ref> Perón himself used very vague terms such as ''socialismo nacional'' ("national socialism"), which he described as being based on Christian social values and aiming to overthrow the "imperialist slavery" of Argentina.<ref>{{cite thesis |title=The Geopolitics of Juan Perón: A New Order for an Imperfect World |first=Robert D. |last=Koch |url=https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10102&context=etd |degree=Doctor of Philosophy in History |publisher=University of South Florida |date=27 March 2020 |page=223}}</ref> Here, Perón argued that his version of socialism was not Marxist but Christian, and that it was a "national variant of socialism", and that it differed from capitalism on the basis of being a "just social order".<ref name="bren1011">{{cite book |title=Peronism and Argentina |author=James P. Brennan |year=1998 |publisher=Scholarly Resources Inc. |isbn=0-8420-2706-8  |url=https://archive.org/details/peronismargentin0000unse |pages=10–11}}</ref> While seemingly favoring the left-wing Peronism, Perón's "national socialism" was interpreted in very diverse ways, including being conflated with Nazism by fringe groups of far-right Peronists. The commonly accepted interpretation however, is that Perón meant "a ‘national’ road to socialism, understood as a system of economic socialization and popular power respectful of specific national conditions and traditions."<ref name="3839gillespie"/>

Perón consistently identified with socialist figures - he praised Che Guevara, and spoke sympathetically of [[Mao Zedong]] as “this little Chinese man who steals my ideas.” He described Peronism as national form of socialism that was to end the capitalist exploitation of Argentina and fight imperialism. Perón expressed deep affinity to Maoism, writing: "The refusal of Mao to side with colonialism lays the foundation of the ‘Third World’ in which the different socialist democracies can get along perfectly. There is no reason for nationalism and socialism to quarrel. Both can unite with the common objective of liberating the pueblos."<ref>{{cite book |title=Argentina's Double Political Spectrum: Party System, Political Identities, and Strategies, 1944-2007 |first=Pierre |last=Ostiguy |publisher=Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies |year=2009 |pages=2;77}}</ref> Perón additionally stated that "Marxism is not only not in contradiction with the Peronist Movement, but complements it."; he excused his initially anti-communist rhetoric as opposition to the Argentine "communist orthodoxy" that opposed him, which he considered to be "on the side of the oligarchy or Braden's arm".<ref name="friede"/>