La Montaña was a revolutionary socialist periodical published in Argentina

Argentina

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. The newspaper was directed by José Ingenieros

José Ingenieros

José Ingenieros was an Argentine physician, pharmaceutic, positivist philosopher and essayist.He was born Giuseppe Ingegneri in Palermo , and graduated from the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine in 1900...

 and Leopoldo Lugones

Leopoldo Lugones

Leopoldo Lugones Argüello was an Argentine writer and journalist.-Early life:Born in Villa de María del Río Seco, a city in Córdoba Province, in Argentina's Catholic heartland, Lugones belonged to a family of landed gentry...

. The first issue was published on April 1, 1897. The first issue opened with a manifesto, titled "We are Socialists." It was continued by an article against the state ('The Society without a state'), which continued into the second and third issues. La Montaña argued that the state was the result of private property and called for its abolition.

Some of the most provocative content of La Montaña were the attacks on the influence of the Catholic Church by Ingenieros.

Ingenieros later become a prominent sociologist in Argentina whilst Lugones became a prominent national right-wing poet.

The twelve issues of La Montaña were republished by the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes in 1996.