Cercanos pero separados. Dos propuestas católicas contrarrevolucionarias en los años sesenta

In the 1950’s and 1960’s innovative anticommunist international dispositives of catholic roots spread. This paper explores the religious, ideological and organizational bases of two of those endeavors – the lay nuclei Catholic City (CC) and the Societies of Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) – which operated in Argentina and Brazil (the last one of them being only in the last mentioned country). To accomplish this, this contribution reviews the career paths of their founding fathers and retraces the main of works of each one of them: For Who He Reigns by Jean Ousset, creator of CC and Revolution and Counter Revolution by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, creator of the TFP societies.Both Organizations spread within the horizon of the Cold War and the impact of the 2nd Vatican Council, as well as within the dilemmas of each country, generating diverse appropriations, nets of relations and differentiated impacts. Indeed, even when both came from a similar religious and ideological horizon – based on a self-defined Catholicism as traditionalism and a counterrevolutionary action proposal – they distinguished from each other by the kind of organizations and strategies that they unfolded, as well as by the echo or resonance that they had in society. Jean Ousset, Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Counterrevolution, Catholic City, Tradition, Family and Propert