Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Sociales (ceis): Possibility conditions for the formation of a left intellectual community
The purpose of this paper is to make an approach to the historical conditions of possibility for the emergence of the Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Sociales (CEIS) within the Communist Party of Colombia, in the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century. Methodologically located from the intellectual history, this article maintains that the CEIS occupied an important place at the intellectual level by making possible the articulation of communist ideas in Colombia in the mid-twentieth century. During its gestation process, and from it, three key functions of the CEIS can be identified within the field of the Colombian left: 1) It made possible the dissemination of the events of world communism in the national context, 2) it contributed to the analysis of the national reality from a Marxist-Leninist perspective, 3) it encouraged the education of communist cadres during much of the 20th century. As a hypothesis for future work, the text proposes that the main characteristic of CEIS, in addition to those already described, consists of a constant desire for education as a revolutionary mechanism. In this way, the contribution of the intellectuals obeyed an educative interest, assumed as a concrete possibility of social transformation.
Keywords:
Intellectuals, Communism, Left field, Education, Revolution
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