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were also the basis for the Prague Czech cultural elite's acceptance of the party's provocative activities, which can only understood in the context of the decades-long smoldering problem of nationalities in Bohemia. The political scientist Ekkehart Krippendorff emphasizes that in a "mixture of jests, and ultimate seriousness the confusion and the morally pretentious rhetoric of party politics of the time was pointedly" brought into sharp relief. Only the Hašek researcher Gustav Janouch considers the party a kind of drunken joke, which was only supposed to increase the beverage turnover in the Kravín inn. This is contradicted by Jaroslav Hašek son Richard, "My father took his candidacy in the elections of 1911 very seriously and was operated from the assumption that he would get the number of necessary votes. After the election defeat, he was very disappointed and depressed."

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danger of parties in the Association Act, association activities were regulated in great detail. These regulations included the obligation to report all association activities to the government, and the right of the government to send officers to supervise the association. The election events of the PMPWBL were also subject to police supervision. While the supervising officer was allowed to dissolve meetings, he was explicitly forbidden to interfere in the debate or talk to anyone other than the club chairman, which severely curtailed his practical threat to PMPWBL public gatherings:

770:"Below an impromptu podium, the founders of this party, the Central Committee, sat at a long table with weighty faces. On the podium, at a small table with even more serious faces, the young chairman and a police commissioner were enthroned. Beside him stood Hašek, delivering his 'election speech. The hall roared with laughter. And the police commissioner, who had absolutely no idea what was going on here, looked around lost and did not know whether he should intervene here." 480: 25: 630:"Assuming that the enthusiastic agitation by the supporters of the Party for Moderate Progress within the Bounds of the Law increases their vote tally in the next election by a factor of ten, and the Austrian Parliament is dissolved a few more times in the foreseeable future, then in a few years the candidate for the Party for Moderate Progress within the Bounds of the Law will be seated in parliament." 816:, once said, 'And yet it moves,' I say now: Move, Miss Bożenka, and please bring a new round: three more beers for me, an allasch for Opočenský, a quarter of white wine for Langer, a beer and a Magador for Diviš and a mineral water for Gottwald. This is proof of Galileo's words, 'And yet it moves' and clear evidence that the 796:"Regulatory laws and security officials keep watch over us, and not so much as a single hair falls from our heads without their supervision. That's progress. If we look elsewhere, to China, for instance, where the security organs cut off people's heads, then must ourselves admit that here there is progress." 749:

contempt for the party system and the monarchy's lack of a constitutional role for political parties. In legal practice at the time, the concept of "party" was used either in the sense of a political "club", an "association" or in the sense of "electoral list" as outlined in contemporaneous electoral

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Starting in 1867, founding legally recognized associations with no longer required approval of the supervisory authority, and they were instead only subject to a four-week "prohibition period" (§ 6), which the PMPWBL effortlessly survived due to its "pro-state" demeanor. However, due to the presumed

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reported in its "Daily Chronicle", on July 15, 1911, "Nothing is known about the fate of this candidacy, and the Imperial press office has not made any official statement regarding it. The candidate intends to protest." The silence of the Imperial election commission was not unexpected, as the party

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describes Hašek's goal as disillusioning spectators by breaking bourgeois taboos - not only in relation to Austro-Hungarian parliamentarism and its leading figures, but also in relation to individuals themselves. Therefore Hašek did not limit himself to criticism of himself and his party, but also

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among the spectators. Hašek gave multi-hour campaign speeches "with a great deal of promises and reforms, smeared the other parties, denounced his opponents, everything that befits a decent candidate to such an honorable ", according to attendee František Langer. The songwriter Josef Mach wrote a

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Jan Klimeš, as well as the police commissioner Slabý, who served as "Enforcers" at party meetings. There is no evidence the party engaged in any public activities until 1911. The only record is a political pamphlet by Hašeks from 1904 referred to as "I am a member of a secondment from the country"

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was held in 1913, in the restaurant Na Smetance in the Prague district of Žižkov, but was only attended by a few party members. When the party leader inadvertently sat down on the service cap of the supervising police commissioner, the event was dissolved. Hašek reports on a subsequent "long-term

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quarter, an executive committee of the reorganized "Party for Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law" announced they would participate in the election with their own candidate. At the same time, they published a manifesto to the Czech people, in which they introduced to party ideology of

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within the bounds of the law" and suggested sending as many of its own children abroad as possible - and to have them demonstrate against globalization there. In January 2006, Richard Hašek, grandson of Jaroslav Hašeks and a leading member of the party, concluded a "non-aggression pact" for the

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After the collapse of communism in November 1989, the party, which according to self-mystification continued to exist illegally since 1921, returned to the public under the leadership of the cartoonists Josef Kobra Kučera and Vít Hrabánek and hosted the long-ago announced third Party Congress.

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that is possibly a description of the earliest form of the party's work. However, numerous researchers place the founding of the party with the activities of the 1911 elections. In contrast, numerous texts describe pre-1911 propaganda expeditions by party members to different regions of the

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Although it had been declared that a third, secret party congress would be announced by newspaper advertisements in the section "Where to Today?," the activities of the PMPWBL ended in 1921. This was due to poor health of the party founder and chairman Jaroslav Hašek, who retired to

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Gisela Riff also emphasizes the "impeccable" character of Hašek's performances. Hašek's main means of doing so was freely improvised speech, where he used long chains of association to combine the important with the trivial, fact with fiction. Hašek said in a campaign speech:

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after Hašek's death in 1924/25. Nevertheless, the party was remembered. In 1928, when the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia wanted to distract from its failures with intensified populist propaganda campaigns, the Social Democratic newspaper

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Berlin (Ost) 1988, S. 36: „Nun treten die Parteien an, Verbreiten ihre Lügen, Sie wollen, jede, wie sie kann, Das gute Volk betrügen. Wir treten für den Fortschritt ein, Jedoch ganz moderat. Gemäßigt muß der Fortschritt sein Und Hasek

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The party grew slowly. By its own account, there were only eight members as of December 14, 1904. As time went on the membership grew to include a few lawyers and doctors, as well as numerous figures from Prague's cultural scene: the

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had apparently not even officially registered its candidacy. As a result, the votes for Hašek were considered invalid. Later, on July 17, 1911, PMPWBL-member František Gellner wrote a positive review of the campaign in the magazine

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there are two further texts obviously written by Hašek for the election campaign of 1911, as well as one of Hašek's election speeches as recorded by František Langer and Josef Mach. Separately, in the early 1920s Hašek also wrote

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election, the leadership of the party tried to expand the size of the campaign team by hanging a notice: "Wanted: a respectable man to defame opposing candidates". All of this was in vain: after the around 3,000 votes cast in the

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Ress, Georg (1974-12-31). "Der Conseil Constitutionnel und der Schutz der Grundfreiheiten in Frankreich" [The Conseil Constitutionnel and the Protection of Basic Rights in France]. In Leibholz, Gerhard (ed.).

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culture, have questioned the established political institutions, forces and media. This type of political practice led to new practices of political expression emanating from average citizens. For example, see

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Hašek, Jaroslav (1971). "Das Gründungsprogramm der Partei des maßvollen Fortschritts in den Grenzen der Gesetze" [The Founding Program of the Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law].

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and was attended by about 300 people. The highlight of the congress was the unanimous adoption of a foreign policy resolution calling for the demolition of the globe due to the hopeless world situation.

37: 311:("Evolution, not Revolution"), whose Prague representatives held events in Zlatý litr. The party slogan abbreviation was "SRK", which officially stood for "Solidarity, Rights and Comradeship" ( 1088:]. Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918 (in German). Vol. VIII: Politische Öffentlichkeit und Zivilgesellschaft. Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (VÖAW). p. 700. 750:

regulations. A party law was not issued in Austria until 1975. Prior to this date, a party could be founded either by a simple statement of the participants (see. the later foundations of the

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Kruppa, Erika (1992). "Das Nationalitätenproblem in Böhmen zu Beginn des konstitutionellen Zeitalters" [The Bohemian Nationality Problem at the Beginning of the Constitutional Age].

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Berwid-Buquoy, Jan N (1989). "Partei für gemäßigten Fortschritt in den Schranken der Gesetze (PFGFIDSDG)" [The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law (PMPWBL)].

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published 23 of Hašek's works. They appeared in their entirety in book form for the first time in 1963 in Czech, and in 1971 in German translation. In the appendix to this edition

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Party of the Czech Republic. The contract, in which reciprocal attacks with beer and slivovitz continued to be expressly allowed, was signed by the then chairman of the KDU-ČSL

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and got on a train in the opposite direction. He was caught by the conductor in second class, although he only had a third-class ticket and was thrown off the train in

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According to Slavist Gisela Riff, the actions of Hašek and his party comrades reveal a merciless play on the "concepts" and "values" of political life. The philologist

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Riff, Gisela (1983). "Besondere Merkmale: Keine. Über Jaroslav Hašek, geboren 1883" [Remarkable Features: None. Abour Jaroslav Hašek, born 1883].

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and the Prague Technikum official Eduard Drobílek, who came up with the idea and served as treasurer. The party name referred to the controversial

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district were totaled, only 38 were cast for the PMPWBL, or according to a contemporary periodical publication, as few as 16 votes. The newspaper

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In 1911-12, Jaroslav Hašek wrote almost 30 texts about the PMPWBL and its members. These are partly literary accounts, partly fictitious

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had to be born, become a famous poet, die, then there had to be an urban renewal, and only then was the Svatopluk Čech Bridge built."

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According to the statements of the party leader Hašek, the party was founded in 1904 in the restaurant 'The Golden Liter' (Czech:

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Riff and her pupil the linguist and translator Jana Halamíčková drew parallels to artistic forms and mediums such as happenings,

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Hašek, Jaroslav (1971). "Rede aus Anlaß der Gründung der Partei" [Speech on the occasion of the founding of the party].

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anecdotally described accounts of their own willingness to lie deceive and deny their own political beliefs for personal gain.

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From today's perspective, the freedom Hašek and his colleagues exercised for their party activities seems amazing, given the

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The nationalization of janitors ("similar to how it is in Russia , where every janitor is simultaneously a police informer").

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of the described persons. The next owner of the manuscript, Alois Hatina, only published ten of the texts in the magazine

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During the year 1921 the second PMPWBL congress took place in Prague-Žižkov, in a large hall in the restaurant Yugoslavia

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Hašek was called up in February 1915 as a soldier, and was captured by Russians in September 1915. In 1916 he joined the

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in the Political Department of the 5th Siberian Army. In December 1920 Hašek returned to Prague under false papers.

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Hašek, Jaroslav (1971). "Die Organisationszentren der Partei" [The Organizational Centers of the Party].

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The platform of the candidate for the Vinohrady election district, Jaroslav Hašek, consisted of seven points:

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Party campaign slogan for Austrian 1911 parliament elections: "Every voter receives a small Pocket aquarium!"

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on the part of the author, as evidence shows Hašek active as a journalist for an anarchist newspaper and an

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Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Animal Protection, Promotion of Elites and Grassroots Democratic Initiative

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In the following years, the party faced contemporary political problems: In 2000, it called for "moderate

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Die Beichte des Hochverräters oder Das Geheimnis der Bastei auf dem Laurenziberg. Ausgewählte Erzählungen

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The Association of the Prague Suburb Smichow 1850-1875 (Publications of the Collegium Carlinium Vol 67)

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Judicial immunity for priests and the Church ("In cases where a schoolgirl is deflowered by a priest").

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Hašek, Jaroslav (1971). "Der makedonische Woiwode Klimeš" [The Macedonian Woiwode Klimeš].

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Die Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative

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memoirs of participants and contemporary witnesses as well as in scientific works. According to

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For several years starting in 1904, Jan Klimeš was a member of the Prague Bohemians. His book

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ironically: "Are the Communists the Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law?"

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that was to begin in mid-July. A few days later at the new party headquarters, the Cow Stall (

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The Confession of the Traitor or The Secret of the Bastion on Laurenziberg. Selected stories.

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Zur Tradition der deutschen sozialistischen Literatur. Ein Auswahl von Dokumenten 1926–1949.

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The Adventures of the In No Way Well-behaved Satirist Jaroslav Hašek: Legends and Realities

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Die Abenteuer des garnicht so braven Humoristen Jaroslav Hašek: Legenden und Wirklichkeit

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organizer during this time. For example, in 1907 he disturbed an electoral event of the

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As events went on, however, the lines of argument would become more and more absurd:

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date of June 13, 1911, for the election of deputies to the 21st session of the

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in August 1921, where he worked until his death in January 1923 on his novel

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They want thunderous advances,/to violently change the way the world is run,

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in the presence of his deputy Jan Kasal, vice-president of the

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