The representation of Santiago Carrillo in the political imagery of «Enverists». The cases of the Party of Labour of Albania and the Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist)

Abstract

In this article we will start an approach to the figure of Santia-go Carrillo and his role in the history of the international communist movement. This approximation will be carried out through the analysis of the documentary corpus generated by two mutually interdependent communist organizations, the PLA and the CPE (M-L). The criticisms of these parties to Santiago Carrillo's Eurocommunism are relevant because they represent the reaction of orthodoxy to one of the most out-standing tendencies of internal renewal within the communist camp in the context of the “crisis of Marxism” of the second half of the 20th century. The research, which has an up-to-date critical apparatus, will be based on a wide variety of sources including bibliographic, biographical and newspaper sources, as well as documents extracted from Spanish ar-chives.

Keywords

• communism
• orthodoxy
• revisionism
• party of labour of al-bania
• communist party of spain (marxist–leninist)