CIĄGŁOŚĆ CZY ZERWANIE? PRZYCZYNEK DO ROZWAŻAŃ NA TEMAT HISTORII POLSKIEJ MYŚLI SOCJALISTYCZNEJ XIX WIEKU
CONTINUITY OR RUPTURE? REFLECTIONS ON THE HISTORY OF 19TH CENTURY POLISH SOCIALIST THOUGHT

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to subvert the division of Polish socialism into “scientific socialism” and “utopian socialism,” which was a widely held approach in Polish historiography after WWII. Alain Badiou’s and Slavoj Žižek’s concepts of “the idea of communism” are applied to Polish Socialist thought to stress the fact of its ideological continuity. “The idea of communism” allows for a critique of Polish communist historians, who advocated the aforementioned divisive methodology. A comparison of Marxist concepts to the ideology of the ‘Communes of the Polish People’ demonstrates that their differences are determined by the historic nature of the socio-economic environment and serves to distinguish a specific set of Polish “communist invariants.”

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