Carlos Alberto Brocato: other 60s (and seventies)

Three snippets of an intellectual career

Abstract

The dynamics of the Argentine intellectual field between the 1960s and 1970s have been an object of study visited assiduously in the last decades. Most of the research on the subject has emphasized the changes produced during those years in the heat of the «political radicalization», limiting, in many cases, the scope of the same to the adhesion of a fraction of the intellectual field to the armed struggle. The canonical work of Oscar Terán in this regard has undoubtedly provided one of the main keys to reading in this regard. In this case I will reconstruct the trajectory of Carlos Alberto Brocato, who went through those years against the current of his fellow writers. I will go through his main contributions and discussions since his expulsion from the Communist Party and his role as director of the magazine La Rosa Blindada in 1964 until his break with the Trotskyist‒oriented Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores (PST), visiting before the contributions made in this organization in pursuit of the organization of intellectuals and artists. Throughout these three moments we are interested in seeing the way in which the conception of «militant intelectual» with which the writer.