De la crisis a la disidencia. El PCE y la polémica Claudín-Semprún cincuenta años después

Résumé

In March 1964, the Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) unleashed one of the most important crises that it has suffered in its history, giving rise to one of the most debated moments of Marxist theory, strategy and political tactics, not only within the aforementioned organization, but within the Spanish left in general. The debate carried out by the members of the Executive Committee of the PCE Fernando Claudín and Jorge Semprún, concluded with the expulsion of the latter from the party in 1965, in a theoretical and pol—itical controversy that included the active participation of Santiago Carrillo, Secretary General at that time Communist Party. The crisis Claudín-Semprún has aroused a considerable interest that has gone beyond the history studies of the PCE. This controversy anticipated aspects of the political practice that the PCE followed years later, but also presented features of the canonical discourse that, especially in the eighties and nineties, came to legitimize the transition and the resulting political system.