Česká strana státoprávně pokroková

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The party Česká strana státoprávně pokroková (Czech constitutionally-progressive party), shorter and Státoprávní pokroková strana (Constitutionally-progressive party), was even in Austria-Hungary formed Czechoslovak party. It was founded in 1908 as a merger of the two small parties Česká strana státoprávní (Czech constitutional party) and Česká strana radikálně pokroková (Czech radical-progressive party).

history

At the end of the 19th century, advocates of the progressive movement founded the two small parties Česká strana státoprávní and Česká strana radikálně pokroková . While the Radical Progressive Party had a following among the petty-bourgeois intellectuals, small business owners, and the national working class, the State Right Party was a stronger advocate for the interests of business. Both parties combined the demand for a Czech state within its historical borders with full democratic freedoms, whereby the constitutional party was much more radical and, in addition to extreme nationalism, anti-Semitic excesses came to light. After personnel changes such as the departure of Alois Rašín from the constitutional party, the two parties merged in April 1908 for reasons of election tactics to form the Czech constitutional-progressive party. The newly founded party saw the solution to the social question in a reconciliation between capital and labor, whereby the class differences should gradually be dissolved. The programmatic focus of the party remained the state independence of the Czechs, which was justified by the constitutionally progressive party with historical law. Although the demand for state independence was to be realized within the framework of the monarchy, the progressive party in terms of constitutional law saw the solution to the constitutional question in a far-reaching revision of the December constitution. Furthermore, the progressive constitutional party saw the solution to the Czech question in a pan-European context, which is why the party established contacts in France, Great Britain, Russia and the Balkans. This benefited the party during the First World War, which became convinced that only a war would lead to Czech independence.

The Czech progressive constitutional party recruited its supporters mainly from intellectuals and small business owners in the cities and in the multilingual area. Here the party also succeeded in building a functioning organizational structure, so that before the outbreak of war it was already on the way to becoming a mass party. In 1911, František Vodňanský and Václav Prunar were two members of the Reichsrat, who joined the representatives of the Česká strana národně sociální (Czech National Social Party) to form the "Club of Czech National Socialists and Radically Progressive Members".

literature

  • Jiří Pokorný : Associations and parties in Bohemia. In: Adam Wandruszka , Peter Urbanitsch (Ed.): The Habsburg Monarchy. 1848-1918. Volume 8: Political Public and Civil Society. Volume 1: Associations, parties and interest groups as carriers of political participation. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3540-8 , pp. 609–703.