Publication details
Czechoslovak Social Democracy Between Revolution and Evolution: Party Daily Press Právo lidu 1918-1935
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| Year of publication | 2026 |
| Type | Peer-reviewed scientific article |
| Magazine / Source | POLITOLOGICKÝ ČASOPIS - CZECH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE |
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| Citation | |
| web | article - open access |
| Doi | https://doi.org/10.5817/PC2026-2-40830 |
| Keywords | revolution; socialism; social democracy; Marxism; critical discourse analysis; Czechoslovakia |
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| Description | This article deals with the ideological and strategic crossroads of the social-democratic movement. Despite the choice of the environment of interwar Czechoslovakia, the article's conclusion is intended to provide a new conceptualisation of the topic of socialism when the author uses a specific Central European case. Using discursive analysis, this pilot study follows the revolutionary discourse, represented press by articles in the official daily newspaper of the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Labour Party-Pr & aacute;vo lidu. The discursive strategies emerging from the articles in the newspaper Pr & aacute;vo lidu correspond to a revolutionary-socialist discourse that stretches from early Marxto the present. Some aspects of revolutionary thinking change, but the fundamental pillars remain the same. The reduction of social problems to a class scheme, the division between us and them, the division between exploiters and exploited. All this is set in a linear scheme that ends in redemption in the form of an egalitarian society. Based on the observed discourse and a reflection on the literature, the article concludes by offering starting points for an analysis of the position of social democracy at the ideological and strategic crossroads. |
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