Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea (Sep 2018)
El comunismo: utopía, mito, imaginario en la obra historiográfica de Lucian Boia
Abstract
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.
