Keywords
critique of ideology
politics of fear
far-right politics
How to Cite
Abstract
The essay discusses four theses on contemporary anti-communism: 1) anti-communism is general and international; 2) anti-communism is an operator within capitalist ideology; 3) anti-communism is a politics of fear; 4) anti-communism is a lure that communists should reject. It proposes new theoretical framework to understand and contest many-faced manifestations of anti-communism.References
Dean, Jodi. 2010. Blog Theory. London: Polity Press.
Dean, Jodi. 2015. “Donald Trump Is the Most Honest Candidate in American Politics Today”. In These Times, 12 August.
Dean, Jodi. 2016. “Faces as Commons: The Secondary Visuality of Communicative Capitalism”. Onlineopen.org, 31 December.
Katagiri, Yashuhiro. 2014. Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace: Civil Rights and Anti-communism in the Jim Crow South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Robin, Corey. 2004. Fear: The History of a Political Idea. New York: Oxford University Press.
Žižek, Slavoj. 1993. Tarrying with the Negative. Durham: Duke University Press.
License
“Theoretical Practice” seeks to put into practice the idea of open access to knowledge and broadening the domain of the commons. It serves the development of science, thinking and critical reflection. The journal is published in open-access mode under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license (detail available here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Articles published in the journal may be freely distributed, stored, printed and utilized for academic and teaching purposes without restrictions.
They should not be, however, used for any commercial purposes or be reconstructed into derivative creations. Access to the journal may not be limited or offered for a fee by any third party.
Prospective authors are obliged to fill in, sign and send back the publishing contract compliant with the CC licencing. [PL.pdf, PL.doc, EN.pdf,EN.doc].
According to this contract, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive right to publish their work under the creative commons license (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) without any financial obligation on both sides of the contract.
Before submission authors should make sure that derivative materials they use are not protected by copyright preventing their non-commercial publication. Authors are responsible for any respective copyright violations.