Este Blog se inicio el 1 de mayo de 2012 con el animo de ir difundiendo los resultados parciales de la investigación sobre el Maoísmo en Colombia. A partir de junio de 2016 se presenta el resultado final de dicha investigación.
El trabajo titulado "Los orígenes del Maoísmo en Colombia: La Recepción de la Revolución de Nueva Democracia 1949-1963" es presentado por Rodolfo Hernández, para obtener el titulo de Historiador de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá.
La investigación fue dirigida por el profesor Mauricio Archila y se inscribe en la Linea de Investigación de Historia Social y Política del Departamento de Historia.
Correo de contacto: rahernandezor@unal.edu.co
THE ORIGINS
OF MAOISM IN COLOMBIA.
By Rodolfo Hernandez.
Maoism historians in Colombia (Molano 2004 and
Archila 2008) state that, in this country, the origins of Maoism are related to
the influence of the Chinese Cultural revolution, in 1968. By contrast, I
consider that Maoism started in Colombia inside the Communist Party between 1949
and 1963.
Between 1949 and 1963 the militants of the
Colombian Communist Party were identified with Maoist strategy of guerrilla
warfare, because of the direct contact that some of its members had with
Chinese revolution texts. In that period, the Colombian Communist Party wrote
36 articles for books, 10 articles and reviews published in its own magazine,
and 21 more articles in its press, all of them related to Chinese Communism.
This diffusion was possible because some Colombian Communist Party intellectuals
translated these texts from English, French, and Russian into Spanish.
Between 1949 and 1963, thousands of Latin
American militants traveled to the People´s Republic of China, interested in
learning how to reproduce China´s experience of revolutionary warfare in their
countries. From Colombia, Álvaro Delgado and Armando Dominguez, among others,
traveled to receive instruction on Mao’s thought, in 1960. Several texts
translated from Chinese Communist experience were part of education manuals
used by the Communist Party in the political and ideological school, under
responsibility of Armando Dominguez.
When the Colombian Communist Party chose the
Pro-Soviet way, they expelled the militancy influenced by Mao’s thought through
the Chinese revolution texts and the travels from Colombia to the People's
Republic of China, between 1949 and 1963. That is how and when the Maoism
emerged in Colombia.
