Naslov
Marx, Marxism and the Croatian Workers' Movement: the History and Ideology of the Workers' Movement in Croatia and Slavonia from Its Beginnings to 1897

Autori
Držaić, Karlo

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Revolutions and Upheavals in History

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 04.05.2018. - 05.05.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Marx, marksizam, radnički pokret, ideologija
(Marx, Marxism, workers' movement, ideology)

Sažetak
With this paper I will address a somewhat unexplored topic of both the history and the ideological preferences of the Croatian working class movement in its early years, that is, in the nineteenth century. The nineteenth century presents a formative period in the history of the Croatian workers' movement, a political project that in the twentieth century played a decisive role in regional history, culminating with the establishment of socialist Yugoslavia after the Second World War. Although the beginnings of this movement can be traced back to the middle of the nineteenth century, when socialist and anarchist ideas started to gain ground in Croatia and Slavonia, the first workers' organizations, mostly for education and worker coordination, started to appear not until the late sixties onwards in towns such as Osijek and Zagreb. But it took more than twenty years from the appearance of these first educational and solidarity based organizations for the workers’ movement to evolve into a politically active and relevant entity. At the height of its popularity, in the last decade of the nineteenth century, led by the Socialdemocratic Party of Croatia and Slavonia, the workers' movement represented the frontier in the struggle for democratization under the repressive regime of ban Khuen-Héderváry. Precisely because of the popular support gained by leading the struggle for democratization, in 1897 the Socialdemocratic Party of Croatia and Slavonia came under a systematic repression that succeeded, by constructing mock accusations against its leading figures, in temporary destabilizing the workers' movement and stopping its political work. While the purely historical part of this paper mostly relies on previously published works, the ideology of the workers' movement is analyzed by applying the methodology of discourse analysis to various publications that represented the working class in the fields of public and political discourse. Combining discourse analysis with the classical historical method enables me to map ideological preferences and explain them in historical context.

Izvorni jezik
Hrvatski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest

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