Publication details
Zrození nové politické třídy a její politické kultury
| Title in English | The Emergence of the New political Class and its Political Culture |
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| Year of publication | 2000 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociální studia |
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| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | New Political Class; Elites; Political Culture; Postcommunism |
| Description | The article discusses the problem of the emergence of the new Post-Communist political class and its political culture after the revolutions of 1989. It attempts to apply to the Czech society the concepts of new political class and building of Capitalism without capitalists, coined by Iván Szelényi, Gil Eyal and Eleonora Townsley and the concept of new redemption myths by Vladimír Tismaneanu. In the process of the formation of the new political class, the old social and cultural capital was used. The role of intellectuals from the dissident opposition was maginalised. The dominant fractions were created by the managereal elite connected with the new politocracy. Post-Communism, its new political myths and its political culture is formed by the attempt of the new elites to establish the new sacral ideocracy from above rather than by the political development of the pluralistic civic society. The crisis of post-Communist right is evoked by the falsification of the originally sacral form of the new myth. The myth was falsified by the actual behaviour of the elites, struggling for the control over political community and control over the privatised property. |