El comunismo: utopía, mito, imaginario en la obra historiográfica de Lucian Boia

• Main Author: Miguel Ángel GÓMEZ MENDOZA es doctor en Historia Universidad Paris III-Sorbona Nueva. Actualmente es Profesor titular de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira-Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación-Maestría en Historia. Entre sus publicaciones recientes en el campo de la historia: «Debates históricos y filosóficos en la enseñanza de los temas socialmente controvertidos», in Revista Praxis & Saber, 7, 13, 2016, pp. 15-44; ROMERO LOAIZA, Fernando, ALZATE PIEDRAHITA, María Victoria (junto con), «La enseñanza racional y sistemática en Colombia: el caso de la aritmética en la obra escolar de G. M. Bruño (1900-1930)», in Revista Historia y Sociedad, 29, 2015, pp. 84-96.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Diacronie 2018-09-01
• Series: Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea
• Subjects: Communism; utopia; mith; imagination; historiography; Comunismo; Utopía; Mito; Imaginario; Historiografía; mito; immaginario; storiografia
• Online Access: http://www.studistorici.com/2018/09/29/gomez-mendoza_numero_35/#testo

The success of communist “mythology”, its relative but undeniable success, – even stupefied, if it is related to its precarious material support – cannot be understood but in a long-term sense of history and, first of all, from the perspective of the myth and the imaginary. Lucian Boia, Romanian historian, considers that communism as a utopia is a mythology that has been programmed for a long time, inscribed not so much in the dialectics of economic and social contradictions as Marx believed; much deeper, it has become a fundamental archetype of the imaginary, and a long-lasting mental structure that has not been completely eroded over time. The utopia of communism will be treated as a mythology, by highlighting its most clear and active figures, putting into context and refining contemporary analysis through Marx’s work and other Marxist thinkers. In this perspective, the phenomenon of communism was and is a particular topic – undoubtedly dramatic – of a global historical mythology of a history, which is understood as the materialization of myths.