From class-society to a democracy in permanence. Petr Uhl’s “Program of social self-management”
From class-society to a democracy in permanence. Petr Uhl’s “Program of social self-management”
Author(s): Dirk Mathias DalbergSubject(s): Marxist economics, Marxism, History and theory of political science
Published by: Ústav politických vied Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: Petr Uhl; normalization; Czechoslovakia; dissent; democracy; democratic theory; soviet system; Trotskyism; Marxism; history of political ideas; political philosophy; Eastern Europe; New Left;
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the normative democratic theory of the Czech dissident Petr Uhl (born in 1941), a revolutionary Marxist and Trotskyite. It describes the ambitions and analyses the problems of his main political work “Program of Society’s Self-Organization” written in the late 1970s. In this work Uhl attempted to describe, interpret, and criticize the existing political system in Czechoslovakia but also in the Western world and designed a normative democratic theory. The article also discusses the question of who influenced his thinking and answers two further questions: How was his “Program” perceived? and Did Uhl change his political point of view in the years following the publication of his program?
Journal: Studia Politica Slovaca
- Issue Year: IX/2016
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 5-23
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English