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New Anti-Capitalist Left: Classical or Modern Marxism?
Zikmund, Michal ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Kubátová, Hana (referee)
The thesis deals with the "New Anti-Capitalist Left" (Nová antikapitalistická levice, NAL), a Czech group radically leftist group that had been established in Prague in the autumn 2009 under the leadership of Nikola Čech, who was a member of the organization World Revolution (Revo) at the time. Revo was considered to be a Trotskyist group. The NAL was concentrating to ideological work as well as attending academic seminars, demonstrations or blockades of far-right activists. It was organizing summer camps where there notable leftist intellectuals were giving lectures, and not only at these camps the NAL was able to establish connections to a fairly wide spectrum of leftist individuals and groups, it was especially cooperating with the KSČM (The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia). Since approximately 2013, it the NAL was functioning besides a citizens' association Left Perspective (Levá perspektiva), since 2014 only the LP is active. The thesis describes, at first, generally the activities and personal background of NAL/LP and the attitudes of their members and active supporters (who we consider persons who were contributing to the web portals of the groups). Then it analyzes its relations and ideological closeness to other Leftist subjects, both political parties (Communist Party of Bohemia and...
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Social Irrationalism in the Era of Neo-liberal Crisis? The Role of Politics, Science, Agrochemical Industry, and Civil Society in the Context of the TTIP Debate
Kučera, David ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Parízek, Michal (referee)
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) should have been a 'game- changer' and a boost for the EU economy by creating more jobs and growth in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. By eliminating the remaining trade barriers, it would have established a transatlantic trade area connecting the two most powerful economies in the world. This Master's thesis utilizes four concepts of the neo-Marxist theory: key premises of the Amsterdam School, State theory of Bob Jessop and Nicos Poulantzas, combines Ulrich Beck's notion of risk society with Antonio Gramsci's role of intellectuals, and outlines the premise of commodification as a part of political ecology. The theoretical neo-Marxist prism facilitates the mapping of the crucial social agents functioning as the proponents of the TTIP agenda as a hegemonic project and those forces opposing the deal as a counter-hegemonic movement. This thesis reveals how the TTIP agreement was legitimized by the proponents but issues of transparency and other contradictions revolving around the deal attracted the attention of various civil society organizations (CSOs) that were concerned about TTIP's impact on public health and environment. Three empirical cases focusing on the precautionary principle (PP), endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs),...
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New Anti-Capitalist Left: Classical or Modern Marxism?
Zikmund, Michal ; Charvát, Jan (advisor) ; Kubátová, Hana (referee)
The thesis deals with the "New Anti-Capitalist Left" (Nová antikapitalistická levice, NAL), a Czech group radically leftist group that had been established in Prague in the autumn 2009 under the leadership of Nikola Čech, who was a member of the organization World Revolution (Revo) at the time. Revo was considered to be a Trotskyist group. The NAL was concentrating to ideological work as well as attending academic seminars, demonstrations or blockades of far-right activists. It was organizing summer camps where there notable leftist intellectuals were giving lectures, and not only at these camps the NAL was able to establish connections to a fairly wide spectrum of leftist individuals and groups, it was especially cooperating with the KSČM (The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia). Since approximately 2013, it the NAL was functioning besides a citizens' association Left Perspective (Levá perspektiva), since 2014 only the LP is active. The thesis describes, at first, generally the activities and personal background of NAL/LP and the attitudes of their members and active supporters (who we consider persons who were contributing to the web portals of the groups). Then it analyzes its relations and ideological closeness to other Leftist subjects, both political parties (Communist Party of Bohemia and...
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Dependency theory and economic growth
Béreš, Adam ; Baxa, Jaromír (advisor) ; Gutiérrez Chvalkovská, Jana (referee)
This thesis examines the concept of dependency theory between developing and developed countries. Formerly popular concept explains reasons of underdevelopment in poor countries. This work discusses about two main approaches as the structuralism and neo- marxism. In structuralism part, this work analyzes the main position in economic policy as import substitution industrialization. Later, this work examines the view of neo-marxism as the radical school within economic theory. At the end, we summarize the main benefits of dependency theory from current view. Keywords dependency theory, structuralism, import substitution industrialization, neo-marxism
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