"Against Red Fascism!": Anti-Communism of the Czech Antifascist Action as a Polarizing Factor on the Czech Radical Left
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F24%3A10478450" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/24:10478450 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=we4PeOjMyj" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=we4PeOjMyj</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v17i1p96" target="_blank" >10.1285/i20356609v17i1p96</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"Against Red Fascism!": Anti-Communism of the Czech Antifascist Action as a Polarizing Factor on the Czech Radical Left
Original language description
After the collapse of communism in 1989, several new phenomena emerged in the Czech Republic, including the far right, which built on aggressive anti-communism, nationalism, and support for right-wing currents. At the same time, there was a significant discrediting of general left-wing attitudes because of their identification with communism. The article focuses on how the Czech Antifascist Action (AFA) worked with anti-communism. The article first shows the basic principles on which anti-communism is based. It then focuses on post-communist anti-communism, specifically in the Czech Republic. At the same time, the article presents the history of anarchist anti-communism. The article then summarizes AFA's history, specifically its Czech version until the COVID-19 period. Methodologically, the article uses content analysis. The crucial data source is the texts published by AFA in their magazine Antifa News or Akce! and on their website Antifa.cz. In principle, it can be assumed that anti-communism played several distinct roles but were intertwined and mutually reinforcing. It enabled AFA to distinguish itself from the Communist Party and communism generally. The specificity of the Czech AFA's anti-communism lies in combining both approaches typical of anarchist anti-communism and approaches characteristic of the Czech variant of post-communist anti-communism.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LX22NPO5101" target="_blank" >LX22NPO5101: The National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impact of Diseases and Systemic Risks</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Partecipazione e Conflitto
ISSN
1972-7623
e-ISSN
2035-6609
Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
IT - ITALY
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
96-112
UT code for WoS article
001184620200006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85195681363