"Servir al pueblo"trayectorias del maoísmo en la península Ibérica

Abstract

This article analyzes the diffusion of Maoism, one of the main currents of the revolutionary left, in Spain and Portugal during the 1960s and 1970s. Maoism played an important role in the processes of radicalization of the left that took place in both countries from 1963, after the Sino-Soviet rupture, but it was soon marginalized with the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes in both countries. Its influence was as intense as ephemeral, but it conditioned a whole generation of leaders who, once disengaged from Maoist organizations, began to increase the ranks of the majority parties in the young Iberian democracies. In a more diffused and complex way, his legacy can also be seen in the new alternative left-wing formations that emerged at the turn of the century: the Bloco de Esquerda (Left Block) in Portugal, and Podemos (We Can) in Spain.