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ALVAREZ GARRO, Laura. Communism as an external constituent of the Costa Rican being (1950-1959). Diálogos rev. electr. hist [online]. 2020, vol.21, n.2, pp.85-108. ISSN 1409-469X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/dre.v21i2.41006.

This paper examines the results of the analysis of the concept of communism and the related semantic network – capitalism and socialism – during the period between 1950-1959, which emerges from a larger research entitled Political Concepts in Costa Rica during the period of 1950-1959: transformations and remainings developed in the Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de América Central (CIHAC) of the University of Costa Rica. The period was selected because the 1950 is the following decade after the Civil War of 1948, where the conditions of the contemporary political community were settled. The article presents the content associated with these concepts and its use by political and social actors in political publicity in two newspapers with national circulation, La Nación y La República. It is concluded that the concept of capitalism is used ambiguously although its role as a frontier for the concepts of socialism and communism is clear. These two are represented as sinister and terrifying. Not only they threaten democracy, but also the Costa Rican being. In that sense, communism functions as a constitutive outside the national identity.

Palabras clave : capitalism; communism; ideology; democracy; Costa Rica.

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