Gra w antykomunizm. Przyczynek do analizy dyskursu
An anti-communist game: a case in a discourse analysis
Author(s): Adam Ostolski Subject(s): Politics, Social Sciences, Civil Society, Governance, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Political behavior, Political psychology, Politics and communication, Politics and society, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Post-Communist Transformation, Sociology of Politics, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Wydział Socjologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: anticommunism; postcommunism; discourse analysis; hegemony; politics of memory
Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to map function(s) and genealogies of anticommunist discourses in Poland after 2015. It is done through a critical review of existing academic literature, a comparative contrast with pre-2005 situation (the period of the postcommunist cleavage), and an analysis of selected samples of contemporary anticommunist discourses, embedded in the theoretical premises of Laclau and Mouffe’s theory of hegemony. The analysis leads to the conclusion that „anticommunism” is a floating signifier shared by several competing discourses rather than being a sign of a unified anticommunist hegemony, that anticommunist themes express and impress a critical memory of the neoliberal transition period rather than that of the Polish People’s Republic, and that the dominance of anticommunist discourses contributes, on both sides of the political cleavage, to the undermining of the democratic political logic.
Journal: Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne. Seria Nowa
- Issue Year: 13/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 99-124
- Page Count: 26
- Language: Polish
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