PRAKTYKOWANIE UTOPII. EDWARD ABRAMOWSKI I POWRACAJĄCE „WIDMO KOMUNIZMU”
Abstract
PRACTISING THE UTOPIA. EDWARD ABRAMOWSKI AND THE
RETURNING SPECTRE OF COMMUNISM
The article discusses the idea of the communism comprised in the
works of Polish radical thinker, Edward Abramowski (1868–1918). The
Abramowski's works are examined in a strictly political manner. The
article argues, that Abramowski's concept of the communism was
created in the opposition to orthodoxical marxism, dominant in
European workers movement that time. Abramowski was a determined
critic of separating the „theory” and „practice” in workers movement
program. The article proposes term „utopian practice” to analyse
Abramowski's concept of the political activity and his way of thinking
about class struggle and abolition of the capitalism, which – according
to Abramowski – should be replaced by the „Cooperative Republic”
(Republika Kooperatywna) – pre-communist utopia based on workers
free associations. The article points out similarity (based on the concept
of the „onologisation of the politics”) between Abramowski's concept of
„everyday communism” and theories of Michael Hardt and Antonio
Negri.