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Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura
Print version ISSN 0120-2456
Abstract
CARO PERALTA, ANDRÉS. Socialists and Communists in Colombia as Typographic Agents (1920-1932). Anu. colomb. hist. soc. cult. [online]. 2021, vol.48, n.2, pp.429-457. Epub June 23, 2021. ISSN 0120-2456. https://doi.org/10.15446/achsc.v48n2.95668.
Objective:
This article studies the role of socialists and communists as typographic agents in Colombia between 1920 and 1932. These political and cultural traditions built a new printouts market aimed at the social sectors that appeared with the urban changes and the social conflict that existed in the country.
Methodology:
Based on correspondence, police files, and newspaper sources, the article explores how these political traditions positioned themselves in an expanding local printouts market and in the continental political network promoted by the International Communist in the region.
Originality:
The analysis seeks to show a complementary perspective that allows identifying the political dimensions of left-wing publishing and typographic initiatives, linked to commercial bets that were aimed at the primary capitalism logic of printouts that was beginning to predominate in the printing industry. graphic arts.
Conclusions:
This study allows us to identify the relationships established by the socialist and communist traditions with the printout trade and how these commercial and political networks allowed them to position themselves on the national public stage.
Keywords : culture; communism; politics; print; typographers; socialism; trade.