NEGATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM.SOME REFLECTIONS Cover Image

Negacja społeczeństwa obywatelskiego w totalitaryzmie. Kilka refleksji
NEGATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM.SOME REFLECTIONS

Author(s): Jolanta Blicharz
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Theory, Politics and society
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: totalitarianism; totalitarian regime; civil society; mass society; post-communist society.

Summary/Abstract: The totalitarian polity is basically one of coercion focused on executing a narrow and uncompromising ideological vision by means of mass terror. Setting up any kind of organization is not possible without the acceptance of the state and thus no grass-roots organizations can exist in a totalitarian state. In other words, any form of civil society (understood as both autonomous from the state and capable of generating social capital) is not possible under totalitarianism.

  • Issue Year: 44/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 35-45
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish