Publication: El futuro del pasado. Prolepsis y memoria en el discurso comunista (1931-1975)
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2020
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Universidad de Alicante
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El artículo estudia un corpus limitado de informes políticos confeccionados por el Partido Comunista de España y la Internacional Comunista. Dichos materiales ponen de relieve la persistencia de un esquema recurrente en el discurso orgánico, caracterizado por vincular reflexiones de pasado con diagnósticos de presente y prospecciones de futuro. La tesis que se defiende en este artículo es que esa última dimensión no debe valorarse como mera coda especulativa. Por el contrario, se considera que las expectativas de futuro sirvieron de espacio de comprensión para el hoy y el ayer. De ese modo, se resalta la importancia de las imágenes de futuro como premisa para entender la estrategia política y las narrativas de la memoria. Paralelamente, el estudio de momentos distantes –de las vísperas de la II República al tardofranquismo– permite apreciar la continuidad de tales prácticas y la notable ductilidad histórica de esos imaginarios.
This article studies a limited set of political reports produced by the Communist Party of Spain and the Communist International. Said materials highlight the persistence of a pattern in the organic discourse, characterized by the connection between reflections onthe past, diagnoses for the present and prospects for the future. The thesis put forward is that the latter dimension should not be valued just as a mere speculative coda. Rather, it acted as a compendium of future discourses that conditioned the meaning given to the present and the past. Thus, the essay underlines the importance of images of the future as premises for political strategy and memory. At the same time, the analysis of distant moments –from the beginning of the Second Republic to the late Francoism– allows us to appreciate the continuity of these practices and the historical ductility of the imaginaries of the future.
This article studies a limited set of political reports produced by the Communist Party of Spain and the Communist International. Said materials highlight the persistence of a pattern in the organic discourse, characterized by the connection between reflections onthe past, diagnoses for the present and prospects for the future. The thesis put forward is that the latter dimension should not be valued just as a mere speculative coda. Rather, it acted as a compendium of future discourses that conditioned the meaning given to the present and the past. Thus, the essay underlines the importance of images of the future as premises for political strategy and memory. At the same time, the analysis of distant moments –from the beginning of the Second Republic to the late Francoism– allows us to appreciate the continuity of these practices and the historical ductility of the imaginaries of the future.