Proletariaccy czytelnicy — marksistowskie i socjalistyczne lektury we wczesnej proletariackiej sferze publicznej Królestwa Polskiego
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The article examines the reading practices among workers in the Kingdom of Poland in the late 19th and early 20th century. Socialist and Marxist literature was an important factor in intellectual emancipation of proletarians, bringing about
new circulations of knowledge, retracing ofclass boundaries and last but not least emerging of new political subjectivities. Readership was a performative realization of cultural change, simultaneously offering a kind of cognitive mapping of social
relations. Socialist brochures used to have a narrative form, often with abundant fabular layer and direct reference to mundane experience of the workers. Such construction, coherent with referential grid of what was already known to the workers, enabled also a presentation ofmore abstract content, as a for instance Marxist theory of surplus value. Along these lines, emerging comprehension of the social world induced questioning of the status quo and pushed for struggle for its abolition. While most ardent autodidacts were even capable of reading Marx’s Capital, it was Communist Manifesto which shaped a peculiar form of proletarian Marxism. It was above all a practical philosophy, with heavy activistic twist. Marxism posed a language for comprehending the surrounding world, and gave certain political subjectivity qua agency. Moreover, emerging proletarian public sphere was a locus of retracing the distribution of the sensible, and class-ascribed activities and cultural practices.
new circulations of knowledge, retracing ofclass boundaries and last but not least emerging of new political subjectivities. Readership was a performative realization of cultural change, simultaneously offering a kind of cognitive mapping of social
relations. Socialist brochures used to have a narrative form, often with abundant fabular layer and direct reference to mundane experience of the workers. Such construction, coherent with referential grid of what was already known to the workers, enabled also a presentation ofmore abstract content, as a for instance Marxist theory of surplus value. Along these lines, emerging comprehension of the social world induced questioning of the status quo and pushed for struggle for its abolition. While most ardent autodidacts were even capable of reading Marx’s Capital, it was Communist Manifesto which shaped a peculiar form of proletarian Marxism. It was above all a practical philosophy, with heavy activistic twist. Marxism posed a language for comprehending the surrounding world, and gave certain political subjectivity qua agency. Moreover, emerging proletarian public sphere was a locus of retracing the distribution of the sensible, and class-ascribed activities and cultural practices.
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