Komunistyczna Partia Polski dziś. KPP jako przykład partii marginalnej
Communist Party of Poland today. CPP as an example of marginal party

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on contemporary Communist Party of Poland — its goals and courses of action, and above all the way CPP refers to the past, how it treats legacy of the Communist Worker’s Party of Poland and Communist Party of Poland of interwar period, as well as how it addresses contemporary problems, reaching to the past seen as source of political inspirations. The aim of the author of this paper is to describe how historical connection between CPP and former polish communist parties is created and how it affects courses of political action of contemporary CPP; to describe specific sense of “CPP’s mission”, as well as reactions of polish public opinion to the fact that there is a party which refers to communist ideology, programme and past. On such a basis it is adequate and possible to characterize in theoretical manner the marginal party. The analysis is based on theoretical criteria concerning small, niche and marginal parties. From this theoretical perspective it is possible to identify and explain characteristic, substantial features of contemporary Communist Party of Poland as a marginal party, and to evaluate political potential of this party within electoral and political competition. It is claimed, and this is the main thesis of this paper, that since the radicalism of CPP, it’s archaic programme, balancing on the brink of banning, as well as other political circumstances, Communist Party of Poland will remain just so called fringe party, which ideological and political message seem to be incomprehensible in the context of norms and dominating beliefs falling within political horizon of contemporary Poland.

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