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State Liberation or State Abolition? Czech Punk between Anti-Communism and Anarchism

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F22%3A10449863" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/22:10449863 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://anarchismandpunk.noblogs.org/post/2022/04/07/chapter-list-for-book-1/" target="_blank" >https://anarchismandpunk.noblogs.org/post/2022/04/07/chapter-list-for-book-1/</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    State Liberation or State Abolition? Czech Punk between Anti-Communism and Anarchism

  • Original language description

    This study considers the role of anarchism in the Czech punk scene during the decade 1985-1995, an era marked by perestroika, the dismantling of state socialism and the early postsocialist transformation. Drawing on testimonies in local punk fanzines, the anarchist press and edited anthologies as well as published interviews with Czech punks and related audio-visual material, I examine the intersections of this subculture with the anarchist movement. By anchoring my research in this period of profound socioeconomic and political change, I establish a base from which to assess processes of politicization and de-politicization in the Czech punk scene over ensuing decades. From the very outset, an &quot;anti-system&quot; stance was integral to Czech adaptations of punk (sub)culture. This was expressed not only in opposition to the Communist state, with its police, army, education and psychiatric facilities, but also in attacks on the &quot;conformist&quot; working class under late socialism and particularly on the Roma, who were seen as a Communist-protected minority. As such, some punks engaged in radically anti-social acts that resembled those of right-wing skinheads and hooligans. Meanwhile, a new and more self-reflective group of Czech punks with ties to alternative culture was voicing its opposition to fascism and moving steadily towards anarchism. The punk-anarchist connection was, however, hardly obvious in the early postsocialist years, and openly anarchist and anarchist-sympathizing bands were only a small part of the flamboyant scene. For their part, the anarchists embarked on near endless discussions about what to do about the punk participation. Ultimately my study seeks to chart the range of anarchist involvement among Czech punks at the levels of both ideology and practice. To this end, I devise a scale with highly active &quot;anarcho-punks&quot; on one end and seemingly apolitical &quot;pub punks&quot; on the other.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    C - Chapter in a specialist book

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2022

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Book/collection name

    Smash The System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance

  • ISBN

    978-1-914567-13-1

  • Number of pages of the result

    21

  • Pages from-to

    168-188

  • Number of pages of the book

    486

  • Publisher name

    Active Distribution

  • Place of publication

    Bristol

  • UT code for WoS chapter