Um passado reconstruído: o comunismo chileno entre o recarrabenismo e o leninismo

Abstract

The official history of the Partido Comunista de Chile (PCCh), told by its leaders and militants, has undergone an important transformation with regard to its self-representative element and its changes in identities in the course of its existence. Immersed in a dispute over its founding year and its relations with the International Communist Movement, the PCCh maintained a close political-strategic alliance with Soviet communism throughout the 20th century. However, with the Chilean democratization process, which began in the 1980s, associated with the end of the USSR, Chilean communism abandoned several Marxist-Leninist concepts and resumed its native Marxism, based on the thought of its founder, Luis Emilio Recabarren. Thus, the aim of this article is to relate these political cultures intertwined throughout the history of Chilean communism, through the transformations established and experienced throughout the twentieth century.

 Keywords: Chile. Communism. Identity.