Marxist criticism of Soviet-type society in Czechoslovakia
The political thought of Egon Bondy after 1968
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4481084 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Petr Kužel (0000-0002-3286-9232, Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 159 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 78-95 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513620945809 |
| OpenAlex | W3047571722 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper focuses on the development of the political thought of Czech Marxist philosopher Egon Bondy. It examines his criticism of state socialism in the Eastern Block from a Marxist perspective, and it outlines the development of his analysis. The study covers the period from the late 1960s until the Velvet Revolution in 1989, a period during which Bondy explored the historical constitution and nature of a 'new ruling class' in the USSR, as well as deeper trends of convergence between Eastern and Western politico-economical systems. In the 1980s Bondy analysed the reasons for the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union. Even though Bondy was, during most of the period of state socialism between 1948-89, a forbidden author, he was also one of the main critics of the political approach of Charta 77 and Václav Havel. This criticism is also outlined in the paper
Aesthetics · Capitalism · Communism · Criticism · Czech · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · State socialism · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Humanities and Social Sciences · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |