A century ago, there were only seven countries in the world that

I made a 2000 characters long greentext once, too bad I didn't save it or made a pic with it

>>78060756
Look for it in the archive

>>78060721
Argentina was the Dubai/Quatar of the 19th century: Selling ressources and using the money to build useless decadent shit

>>78060721
>What went wrong?

massive italian immigration

>>78060927
Good idea

desuarchive.org/int/thread/76238432/#q76239043

>In the days of the gauchos, my country was a blank piece of paper. The pampas stretched as far as men could imagine, inexhaustible, fenceless. Wherever the gaucho could ride, that place belonged to him. But Buenos Aires sought hegemony over the provinces. All the neuroses about property gathered strength, and began to infect the countryside. Fences went up, and the gaucho became less free. It is our national tragedy. We are obsessed with building labyrinths, where before there was open plain and sky. To draw ever more complex patterns on the blank sheet. We cannot abide that openness: it is terror to us. Look at Borges. Look at the suburbs of Buenos Aires. The tyrant Rosas has been dead a century, but his cult flourishes. Beneath the city streets, the warrens of rooms and corridors, the fences and the networks of steel track, the Argentine heart, in its perversity and guilt, longs for a return to that first unscribbled serenity… that anarchic oneness of pampas and sky…

>>78061256
>>a huge lot of them have been reading about marx and socialism
stopped reading right there

>>78061668
>romanticising a way of life that existed only because wire fences weren't a thing yet
there was also a lot of crime and property trespassing

>>78062095
Read on early socialist and anarchic movements in Argentina. All of them either first or second generation euros. Left wing ideals were a world wide fad at the time, and so it was here. Brought to you by the euros, that were also allowed to vote. 1930s Argentina was extremely politically active, and all of them saw redistribution of wealth in good terms. The fact the national government had been building mechanisms to make farming subsidize every other activity, and the rise of Germany back from the dead by the hand of statist nationalism didn't make it any easier

What went wrong?

> ITALIANS