Między emancypacyjnym projektem kulturalnym a totalitarnym podporządkowaniem
Between Emancipation-Oriented Cultural Project and Totalitarian Subordination

Summary/Abstract: Between Emancipation-Oriented Cultural Project and Totalitarian Subordination. Analysis of the Postures of Polish and Polish-Jewish Members of Literary Left of the Interwar Period in the Light of Marci Shore’s Studies. The article examines the Marxist involvement of intellectuals from leftist literary circles in pre-WWII Poland, especially in the context of the participation of people of Jewish origin in this community. The author critically analyses the subject matter, referring to historical analyses articulated in Marci Shore’s book Caviar and Ashes. In this context he points to the political and intellectual diversity of Marxism of the 1920s and 1930s, and identifies the factors that made left-wing radicalism attractive to a large part of leftist Jewish intelligentsia. At the same time he points to ideological problems with tackling the issue of leftist political and cultural radicalism, which was a product of the pressure exerted by right-wing anti-communist ideas prevalent at the time (a concept the he criticizes).

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