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Agustín Laje Arrigoni (born 16 January 1989) is an Argentine writer, political commentator and lecturer. He is founder and president of the Fundación Libre, a conservative think tank.


Early life and education

He began his
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career at the . While studying there, he published his first work, ''Los mitos setentistas: Mentiras fundamentales sobre la década del 70''. This book allowed him to obtain a scholarship to study
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at the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the
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, in Washington D.C., an institution of the
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. When he returned to Argentina in 2011, he abandoned his engineering career.


Career

In 2013, Laje published ''Cuando el relato es una farsa: la respuesta al relato kirchnerista'' with the writer Nicolás Márquez, where he criticizes Kirchnerism's position on the last dictatorship in Argentina. The book was rejected by local human rights organizations and organizations supporting trials for crimes against humanity, which repudiated it and managed to cancel its presentation in Bahía Blanca. In 2016, also together with Márquez, they published ''El libro negro de la nueva izquierda: Ideología de género o subversión cultural''. In it they criticize third-wave feminism and
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, elements that they consider tools of Cultural Marxism. One of the controversies that this book generated arose from stating that a feminist current supposedly supported the pedophile activist movement. For this reason The actress and host
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interviewed Laje on a radio program, generating a debate that went viral on social networks. Laje also participated in a debate with the presenter Patricia del Río, on the Peruvian radio station RPP. The presentation of the book within the framework of the 44th edition of the Book Fair in 2018 provoked rejection from human rights organizations, social and political organizations, which expressed themselves through "songs and slogans referring to denialism, hatred and discrimination that these authors promote.


Political positions

Laje calls himself a paleolibertarian,
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and anti-feminist. He is a strong opponent of
abortion Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or "spontaneous abortion"; these occur in approximately 30% to 40% of pregn ...
even in cases of rape, and opposes
euthanasia Euthanasia (from el, εὐθανασία 'good death': εὖ, ''eu'' 'well, good' + θάνατος, ''thanatos'' 'death') is the practice of intentionally ending life to eliminate pain and suffering. Different countries have different eut ...
, making him a pro-life activist. His ideas have been considered ultra-conservative and far-right by different media outlets. On numerous occasions, Laje has been called sexist and homophobic. Laje defines gender ideology as a set of anti-scientific ideas that, for authoritarian political purposes, uproots its nature from human sexuality and tends to explain it exclusively from culture. Thus, our sexual reality, as men or women, would be a mere social construction, nullifying our natural determinations.


Publications


Books

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References

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