Trzy typy antagonizmów

• Authors: Tymoteusz Kochan

Title variants

EN

Three types of antagonism

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The main goal of this paper is to describe the three main types of class antagonisms as pointed by the author, based on the marxist idea of class warfare. These types are: the system antagonism – which occurs inside specific systems; the class antagonism – which can be observed inside proletariat and inside different, specific classes, and formation antagonism which is the valid antagonism between revolutionary and reactionary social classes, leading to critical contradictions and to the process of revolution. The modern capitalist society of Europe and western, imperialist capitalisms is described as a non-revolutionary, individualist system, where proletariat goals are shared with the goals of the class of capitalists. Therefore – the class contradictions existing in First World countries aren’t contradictions leading to the real antagonism on the formations level, which is necessary to occur if the capitalism is to be replaced with socialism. The theory of revolution presented in the article points at the processes of economical socialization against capitalist productivity as the key factor in creating socialism inside now-imperialist countries. To accomplish this, the movement of the political left and socialist forces should not concentrate on simple fight for higher salaries.

Keywords

EN

class contradictions; class antagonism; formation antagonism; social classes; revolution; socialism; imperialism; proletariat; global proletariat; big social classes; small social classes; revolutionary theory

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii, Uniwersytet Szczeciński
• Journal: Nowa Krytyka
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 32
• Pages: 145-161

Contributors

author

Tymoteusz Kochan

• Uniwersytet Szczeciński