Przepraszam...bez antysemityzmu. Komunoendek na youtube
Oh, sorry... without anti‐semitism. A national communist on YouTube

Summary/Abstract: The article describes a case of a marginal po­litical movement from the past, its presence on YouTube and its vlog commentary from the perspective of culture studies and political sci­ence. It is about a Polish national communist Bohdan Poręba’s movement called Patriotic Alliance “Grunwald”, which combined in its philosophy expressive nationalism, German­ophobia and anti­Semitism with approval of real socialism. After the Polish transition the“Grunwald’s” leaders lost their political status and have started trying to find a new politi­cal area in the internet. Poręba who was also a famous film director began working on a pa­triotic film funded through crowdfunding. It turned out that even his filmmaker’s knowl­edge was not enough to break such barriers of social network as technology and work fea­tures. It proved the characteristic of YouTube as the most democratic medium which gives a possibility of publication for niche authors, however does not enable breaking a monop­oly of mainstream’s representatives. Appear­ance on YouTube is not an impulse for po­litical movement’s renewal. It only supports bonding of a shrinking national communists’s community.

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