Challenges of the Czech Radical Left

Goran Marković

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 2013, vol. 21, issue 1, 67-85

Abstract: The author explores the causes of the success of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM), which is electorally one of the most influential Czech political parties since the 1990s. The analysis is concentrated around the issues of the Party’s ideology, political programme, organization, membership and strategy. The basic conclusions are that the KSCM is a reformed Communist Party, which adopted an ideology and political programme similar to those of Eurocommunism and that it abandoned the former ideology of so-called state socialism in fundamental ways. Although its membership is old, its voter base is composed not only of pensioners but also of workers and other losers in transition. Its strategy is dominantly concentrated on parliamentary work which in the long run has to be chRiegl, Martinanged in order to obtain greater influence in social movements and trade unions.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/0965156X.2013.832563

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