Socialist Hussites, Marxist Wagnerians - Oxford Scholarship by Unknown

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Tags: This chapter looks at how the 1905–7 breakthrough accelerated a process in which Social Democrats appropriated Czech and German national cultures as their own. Although the party intelligentsia was the motor of this campaign, ordinary workers ratified it with their participation in cultural events and their involvement in a thickening associational network. Especially on the Czech side, workers also infused socialist claims on national culture with a militant populism. Emblematic figures for the fusion of national high culture with socialist politics were Friedrich Schiller and Richard Wagner for Germans, and Jan Hus and his radical Taborite followers for Czechs. Austro-Marxist theorists sanctioned these developments in hope they would fortify internationalism, but in fact sentiments of national superiority were the result.


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