The term subversive is designated as an individual who tries through different actions to subvert the established social or moral order.. That is, it is the person who carries out various acts in order to destabilize or destroy the reigning order in a place or context.
The concept of subversion began to become extremely popular, in the aforementioned sense of those attempts carried out by groups or individuals with the aim of overthrowing authority structures, such as the state, during the last century..
Subversive activity consists of offer help and moral support to groups, individuals or organizations that encourage the overthrow of constitutional or unconstitutional governments, through force and the use of violence, that is, in some way what is known as revolution.
Your disagreement with authority determines your action
The motivation of these groups or organizations is generally the same, as they consider that the economic and social policies that these governments implement are not representative in any way, nor are they aimed at satisfying the welfare of the general population, but rather On the contrary, they tend to further harm the situation of the most unprotected class; they decide to carry out these destabilizing actions in order to be able to put their principles and postulates into practice and force.
Then, all those acts, activities that are carried out against the interests of a government and that do not fall within what is called treason, sedition, sabotage or espionage will be considered as subversive activities.
Although subversion has links with the concept of sedition, it is not correct to use them interchangeably as synonyms, because the former does constitute an open uprising against the current authority, on the other hand, subversion, turns out to be an activity that is carried out with much more stealth and usually in hiding.
Currently, many postmodern authors promote in some way the updating of the concept of subversion, since they consider that in reality it is not the state that should be subverted to change a current state of affairs but rather the change should operate within cultural forces prevailing and prevailing, such as individualism, patriarchy, and scientific rationalism.
The dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983 called those who did not agree with its ideas
We must emphasize that the concept has a special relevance and presence in the Argentine Republic since with it those groups, mostly enrolled in the left, that acted clandestinely during the government of Perón's wife, María Isabel, and during the beginnings of the military dictatorship that settled in the country after the coup that overthrew the aforementioned Peronist government.
In reality, it was the way, the concept that the military in charge of power decided to use to name those who did not share their political and ideological proposal. Those who fought the dictators armed were called by them as subversives, and they also used to speak in guerrilla terms.
As is widely proven by justice, the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983 carried out a cruel and ruthless state terrorism, the famous "witch hunt" against all those who did not think like them and who did not agree with his actions.
Group cruelly persecuted by the dictatorship
At first they pointed to the political enemies as subversives, but later this group expanded enormously, including union leaders who asked in favor of improving the salaries of their colleagues, university students committed to a political group or with active participation in the student center, critical journalists, professions that were considered suspicious such as sociologists, psychologists, historians, artists, among others.
The action that state terrorism carried out against the subversives was implacable and cruel, they ambushed them, illegally detained them, deprived them of their freedom in clandestine detention centers and then ruthlessly murdered, even, a large part of the bodies of the “Disappeared”, as the subversives they detained were called, were never found. It was always speculated that they were thrown into the water from aircraft.
Although the systematic violence that the dictatorship applied against those it considered political enemies was tremendous and incomparable with the response of these groups, we must say that the subversion also carried out criminal actions of all kinds, kidnappings, attacks, among others, during its struggle.
