From reflection AI on Lukacs, Scruton and Evening
In the past of ideas, it seldom happens that 1 conviction gives distant the full essence of a strategy that has shaped human consciences and institutions for decades. In this view – although not straight spoken but out of spirit his writings – is attributed to György Lukacs the expression that "The most crucial work of a communist is to accept the ethics of vile conduct".
The formulation of this, like Roger Scruton in Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, is not a malicious abbreviation, but a moral summary of the revolutionary doctrine of Lukacs – the core of ethics that justified lying and betrayal in the name of progress.
1. origin and meaning of Revolutionary Ethics
György Lukács – a literary theorist and folk commissioner in the Béli Kuna government in 1919 – wrote in an essay by Taktika és etika that the revolutionary must reject all absolute morality. Good is what serves the historical necessity, bad is what stops it.
In this sense morality becomes an instrument of revolution. Conscience, law, fact – everything is subject to purpose. That's how it's made. instrumental ethics: ethics that allows to justify wickedness in the name of “progress”.
Roger Scruton reads this thought as the quintessence of Marxist nihilism: “The most crucial work of a communist is to accept the ethics of wicked conduct.” This is not about crime as a coincidence, but about the rule – conscious consent to evil, if this evil is to contribute to the historical good.
2. From Revolution to Institution
What Lukacs had been a philosophical construct became a regulation of social life in communist states.
The ethics of “bad conduct” has entered into the blood of organization apparatus, services, academic and artistic circles. The goal – party, nation, revolution – always justified measures. The lie may have been ‘right’, the study — ‘necessary’, cowardice — ‘reasonable’.
Józef Wieczorek, an independent writer and investigator of the pathology of academic life, repeatedly showed that the same ethics survived in the mentality of the institution. In texts specified as the fixation of communist standards (2025) or the 3 Guides of the Academic Domain (2025), it describes how the spirit of Lukacs – the spirit of moral relativism – inactive regulates relations within the university.
In the name of “peace” and “loyalty toward the institutions” we learned not to see evil, not to call it by name, not to break the deal.
Evening notes that many dormitories – although formally free of ideology – inactive live according to her ethics: conformism, fear, silence.
3. After 1989 – continuity without ideology
After the alleged fall of communism it seemed that its moral core would disappear.
Meanwhile – as Leszek Kołakowski wrote – communism not only destroyed social structures, it corrupted the very concept of morality.
In the fresh reality, the ethics of wicked conduct no longer needs ideology.
She kept her mechanisms: loyalty to the arrangement, avoiding responsibility, relativizing the truth.
Evening continues this diagnosis, showing that the modern "cancel culture" – even in academic environments – reproduces the logic of old cleansings and donations, only in the language of "care for the image" or "institutional culture". In the Chuligan essay, the Cancel Culture (i.e., the elimination of the ed. Piotr Lisiewicz – and not only) (2025) writes that the impulse of self-censorship has become a fresh form of political correctness, and the “ethic of vile conduct” is simply a regular habit.
The erstwhile repression apparatus replaced a network of dependencies where honesty becomes suspicious and silence becomes a virtue.
4. Silence and Compassion
It's amazing that Modern studies of communism seldom contact his moral DNA.
It is written about terror, censorship, economics, but the question of why people remained in the evil strategy – frequently by choice, not by fear.
Evenings in his analyses – although he does not usage academic language – uncover this dimension with extraordinary insight.
It shows that the spirit of “the ethics of wicked conduct” not only continued, but institutionalized itself in the mentality of universities.
This is no longer Marxism, but moral inertia, which makes the university a place where fact is not binding, but a "tactic of survival".
Scruton saw in this the logic of spiritual demoralization, which in Western Europe took the form of a “new left”.
Evening sees its local variety – post-communist correctness, in which there is no conscience, but convenience.
5. Ethics as a Mirror
Scruton wrote that the evil of totalitarian systems is always born in the sphere of ethics. Politics is just his expression.
Lukács created the moral explanation of the revolution, which allowed all evil to justify in the name of the historical good.
From the position of Poland's experience after 1989, the evening tells us that this spirit survived due to the fact that it was not named.
There was no moral mirroring.
As long as public and academic institutions reward conformism alternatively than veracity, communism – in an ethical sense – continues.
Not as an ideology, but as a moral instinct to justify wickedness.
Where cowardice is called prudence, and loyalty to evil is reasonable, there is inactive the spirit of Lukacs.
Completion
Communism did not last as an economical strategy or a party.
Survived as ethics – ethics, which allows a man to betray the fact in the name of comfort, career, belonging to the environment.
She, as Scruton wrote, is his actual heritage.
And Józef Wieczorek reminds us that until the technological and cultural circles have settled this ethics, they will stay hostages of “moral communism” – a strategy that has ceased to have doctrine, but inactive has its followers.
Bo the core of communism He wasn't in economics.
He was stuck in approval to wickedness—in the habit of betraying the fact in the name of the purpose.
And as long as this habit persists, communism continues – not in ideology, but in conscience.
Bibliography
György Lukács, Taktika és etika, 1919.
Roger Scruton, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the fresh Left, London 2015.
Leszek Kołakowski, Main Trends of Marxism, Paris 1976.
Józef Wieczorek, The consolidation of communist standards, 2025, ]] >https://blogjw.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/fixing-standard-communist...]] >.
Józef Wieczorek, 3 Guides of the Academic Domain, 2025, ]] >https://blogjw.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/three-guides-domeny-akademick...]] >.
Józef Wieczorek, Chuliganian cancel culture (meaning the liquidation of ed. Piotr Lisiewicz – and not only), 2025, ]] >https://blogjw.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/choliganska-cancel-culturel-...]] >.
Józef Wieczorek, From Sonderaktion Krakau to the WiN Krakow Process, 2024, ]] >https://blogjw.wordpress.com/2024/09/21/od-sonderaktion-krakau-do-process...]] >
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