I praised the Review Weekly many times. This time I gotta compose any critical remarks about the interview with the manager of the Gabriel Narutowicz Institute of Political thought (D. Roman Dmowski and Ignacy Jan Paderewski Institute of National thought Heritage).
The interview entitled “Narutowicz alternatively of Dmowski” is conducted professionally by Paweł Dybicz and was needed. On the another hand, what Prof. Leszczyński said alternatively confirms the the thesis that he does not realize what the end is and applies to the definition of it imposed by post-solidarity power a specified cripple.
When I learned in April this year that prof. Leszczyński is to become the head of this institution, I wrote a small jokingly on my FB profile: “The malice of Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz knows no boundaries. Adam Leszczyński was appointed by the Minister of Culture as manager of the R. Dmowski and I. J. Paderewski National Heritage Institute. Adam Leszczyński was associated with “Gazeta Wyborcza” from 1993 to 2017. He belongs to the “Political Critics” squad and the OKO.press service team. In the past, he has published, among others, “Newsweek” and “Politics”. Prof. Adam Wielomski stated: “It is like appointing me as manager of the Józef Piłsudski Institute.” I think it's a lot more than that. due to the fact that Prof. Wielomski is an authentic supporter of freedom of speech, so he would let votes against his own. This is like making Bolesław Tejkowski the head of the judaic Historical Institute, or making Tomasz Piątek the editor-in-chief of “Polish Thought”.
And I was right. After all, prof. Leszczyński had already announced the liquidation of the facility respective months earlier, as he was reminded by Paweł Dybicz who interviewed him. The prof. was consistent and did so. He liquidated, although he said in an interview himself, "I was asked to turn him into an institution where historical politics will be deprived of right-wing nationalism and its democracy and multi-threading will be emphasized." At least the nationalists with centre and left-wing views have a chance.
And seriously, the prof. has precisely the same line of reasoning as the PiS. Just the another way around. PiS accompanied Roman Dmowski to the chariot of shallow solidarity. Dmowski matched his views there like a fist to the nose. due to the fact that PiS is simply a dazzling part of the world. Where does prof. Leszczyński see Endek reasoning in the Law and Justice? Political realism, “pro-Russian” orientations, that is, free from rusophobia, looking at politics through the prism of the nation – not the state, condemning insurrection? It's the opposite. Karl Marx He wrote: “Hegel says somewhere that all historical facts and figures repeat, you can say, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as a tragedy, the second as a farce." We're looking at PiS in a curved mirror. alternatively of legionaries, we have legions of poststyrofoam. alternatively of an idol Józef Piłsudski, god Lech Kaczyński. The stunning, anti-Russian orientation is dancing. Looking at politics through the prism of the state's forces, its apparatus and apanases for its own. It's not like that. Jarosław Kaczyński It derives straight from the tradition of the NRA and is politically raised, among another things, by a fan of origin Jan Józef Lipski. Kaczyński himself never hid his fascination with Piłsudski and critical attitude towards Dmowski.
Leszczyński decided to turn the Institute into a weapon against the PiS-men. This is simply a completely meaningless and perpetuating, sterile war of the Polish Popis. most likely for another reasons, but I have an equally negative evaluation of PiS activities as prof. Leszczyński. The activities of the Institute during the regulation of law and justice I justice very badly. Prof. Jan Żaryn he was the policymaker of the then authorities, which was unacceptable. It had to be stopped. present the problem is that Prof. Adam Leszczyński is the policymaker of the current authorities. any and others utilized the historical figure to advance their historical vision, alternatively of dealing with Roman Dmowski's political thought. Why didn't this happen? It's very simple. What Dmowski wrote is simply a denial of both the imagination of Styrofoam virgin and liberal leftover.
It was this negation of national thought in the III Polish Republic that the "right" in Poland had for many years the face of Jarosław Kaczyński. erstwhile the People's Poland ended, it was decided not to let authentic nationalists to vote. The plim in this was edited by Adam Michnik "Gazeta Wyborcza". The national democracy has been seasoned with the execution of radicals, anti-Semites, racists and anti-communist goons. Endection was shown in a curved mirror. In the media, it was identified with national-radical movements, cabaret anti-Semitism and skiner brawls. Absence on the political phase of the National Camp caused that the Erac as he was and is PC/PiS. Almost 35 years ago, the Center Agreement was created. The Kaczyński brothers' organization had the biggest and most harmful influence on the improvement of the 3rd Polish Republic alongside the environment of the Democratic Union and its subsequent mutations.
Not everything at the Roman Dmowski and Ignacy Jan Paderewski Institute of National thought Heritage was wrong. Among the books, a crucial part was valuable, specified as the Biographical Dictionary of the Polish National Camp. And that was to be continued. due to the fact that the point is not to look uncritically at the past of the National Camp. It's about looking critically, but honestly. And draw from his tradition what is precious and useful. If Prof. Leszczyński truly wanted to halt PiS's fighting in this institution, it was adequate to deal with the thoughts of Dmowski and wider national-democratic camp. Nothing so bad that it doesn't hit the PiS. The thought of the endek storms the myths and dogmas of PiS-ism specified as: insurrection and worship for uprisings, national megalomania, messianism, russophobia, slang, curse, aversion to the PRL and tradition of Solidarity. It would have been adequate to scope to the democratic and progressive roots of the endetic, business and post-war "Homeland", the past of PAX, the relation to martial law or the critical assessment of the activities of the alleged democratic opposition. The Institute may have been an intellectual ram to PiS-owski's thinking. The chance was buried due to the fact that the fresh ones were guided by political stereotypes imposed in the 3rd Poland. reasoning “Endece is Unknowable”, anti-Semitism, debacleism is the same as thinking, for example, of a socialist camp in the categories of Stalin, the lager, the killing of Popieluszko.
If prof. Leszczyński could not realize this, he could consult experts on this subject. And I'm not talking about people connected to Endecia, but with an thought of that movement. For example, Prof. Lech Mażewski, Prof. Bronisław Łagowski, Prof. Jacek Majchrowski, Prof. Maria Szyszkowska, Prof. Stanisław Bielenia, Dr. Edward Karolczuk or the aged socialist Andrzej Werblan.
Łukasz Jastrzębski
If Prof. Adam Leszczyński seriously does not know what to do with the bust of Roman Dmowski, which he placed in the warehouse, I will gladly buy them back. It will most likely be cheap, prof. Leszczyński stated "really no 1 wants it for free".
Think Poland, No. 49-50 (1-8.12.2024)
Photo: Roman Dmowski's ceremony (7 January 1939)
