We Poles, who are we? A national community, a multinational society, or a gathering of random people? These are fundamental questions in the current geopolitical situation of Poland, determining its future.
In the past, geopolitical conditions have been of importance above all to our civilisational-cultural existence; it has since taken on a fundamental dimension. Belonging to the West has become a determining origin in this existence. Does Poland's current membership of the most crucial Western structures strengthen our civilization-cultural improvement or have already forced its interior transformation? The Western civilization has been transformed – gradually cut off from its Christian roots – taking on the character of a globalist-liberal-transatlantic mix. Her presence in Polish reality became a fact. The fresh imagination of man, society and the planet is visible in the most crucial dimensions of our national functioning.
Unfortunately, neither this year's independency march nor the erstwhile 1 is the answer to these questions. This one-day manifestation of Polishness – at the weapon of Natovian and American bases stationed in Poland, on the belt of the European Commission, with the best armed European state at our side, which is the enemy of Ukraine – is just a reminder of who we should be. At the same time, at the same time, it is forgotten that a large part of the property of the "our" twentieth economy of the planet no longer belongs to Poles, while Polish agriculture is inactive fatally threatened by the EU's green governance and Ukrainian agriculture, supported by Brussels. In this context – not to mention the coercion of buying American gas and another “friends” of coercion – the march celebrated erstwhile a year is simply a march of pretend independence.
From individual to fresh same
In attempts to answer these questions there is simply a request to mention to human doctrine as a starting point for each community. The fall of the West – which we are presently dealing with – was due to our historical, civilizational connection with it. The certificate of this link is found in the top achievements of Polish culture – from Nicholas Reja and Jan Kochanowski after Zbigniew Herbert. The doctrine of man included in them is the doctrine of the person, precisely as all the currents of Christian personalism perpetuated – from St Augustine to Charles Wojtyla (the individual and the Act). In its view man is equipped with his essence of being in axiological consciousness—the ability to separate right from wrong, fact from false—reflected in his conscience. It is besides equipped with an inalienable spiritual structure, depicting its growth in the metaphysical-religious dimension – in the field of the realization of absolute and nonsubjective values, specified as Christian moral values.
Thanks to these attributes, the human individual is aware not only of his existence, but besides of the anticipation of perfecting himself – above all, spiritual and moral, meaning the attainment of holiness on the ground of religion. This spiritual improvement in Language philosophy Gabriel Marcel He called the way from sum to sursum. In the social space, these capabilities of the human individual are seen as overcoming the limitations of the individual same for the benefit of another same and as a consequence for us. From this perspective, the human being is naturally capable of creating the common good.
Without the thought of a common good, there is no anticipation of building a national community – in all concept – both cultural and political and other, linked to them. Apart from the community of past and the community of culture, this thought of good plays an crucial role. So erstwhile we ask who we are as Poles, we must at the same time ask about our attitude not only to common past and culture, but besides to this idea. The consequence of our participation not only in the EU but besides in the Natovian structures – as well as in the Natovian wars – is Poland's participation in the civilizational transformation of the West, which resulted in its collapse. The consequence is besides our transformation of civilization. And any effort to defend our nation against the charge of an accomplice is and will be ineffective. Historically, facts matter. The first, most important, is the Lisbon Treaty signed by the president of Poland Lech Kaczyński and ratified by our Parliament. It was a Polish nail in the coffin of Christian Europe. The treaty is not only a denial of the Milan Edict, but besides an automatic departure from the above-mentioned doctrine of the person. Its place was promoted earlier on American ground by the concept of an individual determined by postmodernism on the 1 hand, on the another hand by neoliberalism. In specified determination, the interior structure of a man transformed Western civilization is not only anti-metaphysical and anti-axiological – due to the fact that this is postmodernism – but besides far from the thought of the common good – due to the fact that this is neoliberalism.
It is no wonder that the creators of this mixture of globalist-liberal-transatlantic easy enslaved the fresh man with their perfect instruments: LGBTQ+ ideology and the ideology of environmentalism. Both take distant the attributes of a person. It is crucial to replace in ideology the concept of interior improvement/change by sex change. But in environmentalism—imposed as quasi-religion— it is apparent that all beings of a purely natural nature—animals, plants, and even things—shown by St. Thomas on the ladder of beings as standing below the human person, over whom the angels stand (spiritual nature only), and over them only God. The alignment of the nature of beings is not only an unauthorised interference into the sphere of man independent, but besides an apparent degradation of the human being.
Without this anthropological context, it is hard to talk about civilization-cultural changes in modern Poland, and consequently besides hard to answer the question of who else or who we are. 1 thing is certain: we are no longer active followers of this Western civilization, in which we were enrolled by the baptism of Poland. For most of us – as our representation in the decision-making centres: the Polish and European Parliaments – agreed to civilization change, to abandon Christian civilization and replace it with a mixture of globalist-liberal-transatlantic. And although in Poland we inactive have the testimonies of Christian civilization, but on the basis of coexistence with this fresh one.
Substitutions of the common good
The sense of Community national ties was powerfully strained in the 1990s in the process of systemic and economical transformation, made on the ground of utmost neoliberalism. In practice, it moved to quasi-democracy – oligarchical? – and chaotic privatization, which is simply a program of expropriation of Poles from their national property. It is astonishing that we came out of the socialist PRL as a strong and tight nation; as a community in which historical, cultural and emotional ties did not lie only those who in their consciousness succumbed to sovietization. We were only weakened by the first blow of Westernization, which we surrendered voluntarily. We gave up due to the fact that it was a denial of everything that in the block of socialist states threatened the existence of our nation. Poles were unaware that new, equally large threats would come from the West. Transformation took place in the intellectual amok of Polish society. Her propaganda preyed on our small cognition of the West and the cult of America. She imposed on the average Kowalski a fresh cult: the "holy right of property", of course not a common but private one, which was reflected in the authoritative fresh York period. chaotic privatization has been referred to as shock transformation frequently replaced by shock therapy. These key words were accompanied by a spell of an invisible free marketplace hand. They were all expected to make a position of “healing” the Polish society, struck by the alleged Balcerowicz reforms.
For millions of Poles they were a real shock – not only in the material dimension, which manifested itself in full poorness of society and a fewer million waves of economical emigration, but besides in the spiritual and cultural dimension.
Pacific ideas
The propaganda of shock therapy stunned the average Pole with additional cynical neoliberal slogans specified as: there is no freedom without ownership. The average Kowalski, who had no wealth but a state-owned labour establishment, had to realize that what links him to him is neither modern nor Western; it is at most a sign of sovietism, and he, if he fights for him, may even be considered a homo sovietius. no of the expropriated Poles could then buy a "his" – due to the fact that a common – mill to feel this neoliberal freedom. Thus, a fresh resentivity was born in their consciousness: an aversion to the homeland resulting in the ease with which they abandoned it, embarking "for bread." And then all it would take is the voice of any kind of country guide. Fr Jerzy Popieluszkowho would aid them keep their individual and national dignity in this transformation. It would suffice to callback a fewer examples of spiritual freedom, which were built on the deficiency of property, as Fr Maximilian Kolbe proved, in a free way choosing the death cell in order to defend the Auschwitz prisoner from it. Memory of interior freedom did not gotta lead the Polish individual to heroic acts and gestures of Rejtan. However, she could inspire him in the fight to transform wildlife privatization into a "civilised", fair, allowing him to participate in a fresh kind of property – alternatively of begging checks and convictions to the unemployed.
This is why the same worker, who defended his workplace from thefts during the solidarity strikes and sacralized his space through Masses, sold it at the time of the celebrated transformation to abroad companies for a proverbial bowl of lentils. He did so under the name Solidarity, which was inactive of large social importance at the time. It was the first to be effectively pacified in 2 stages. First through abroad backing and Western services – as part of the experimentation of the first colored revolution in the block of socialist states. Then through her Western patrons' forced consent to Balcerovich's reforms. erstwhile it turned out that the transformation did not bring the announced "free marketplace liberation", it was besides late to carry out a peaceful counter-revolution. Solidarity of the 1990s and later became only a paper atrap of the erstwhile avant-garde of Polish freedom.
Her spectacular transformational degradation has made a large breach in the social relations of Poles and permanent aversion to the alleged union. In this respect Poland occupies a far from leading place in Europe. According to CBOS investigation in 2025, only 6 percent of Polish employees belonged to trade unions, while in Sweden 65%, in Denmark 60%, in Norway more than 50%. Importantly, labour marketplace investigation in these countries has shown that unionisation contributes to higher earnings. Negative in this respect, Polish indicators require not only economic, sociological and political analyses, but besides cultural analyses.
The experience of voluntary social and national slavery has been even more complicated by fresh types of our dependence on abroad decision-making centres – NATO and then the EU. These dependencies authoritative propaganda advertises exclusively as achievements made while maintaining alleged independence. The outdated fresh Language was refreshed, including fresh key words: safety idea, Russia's threat, green order (as quasi-religion). They now service the fresh phase of the pacification of the Polish people. Its aim is to transform our community into a gathering of enslaved people, in addition to being frightened by the loud “Russian threat”.
Moral Sensibility Tests
It is worrying that Poles stay silent and take a stand of indifference towards the events of the 21st century resulting in the death and suffering of millions of people. Wars – above all in the mediate East and Ukraine – colorful revolutions, coups as part of global westernization each year bring a bloody toll that modern societies should force them to measure and justice not only political, but besides civilizational and moral. This axiological duress is – it would seem – apparent in the case of the shame of humanity of our time, which is the genocide committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, with the consent and military and technological support of the United States. Polish silence in this substance is not only due to the vassalization of our state towards Washington, but besides to the exclusion in the consciousness of Poles of the Palestinian people from the thought of a global common good. The first origin is apparent and visible in the most crucial spheres of our functioning. The another 1 has a different background. Poles fear any legitimate criticism of Israel. They fear the labels of anti-Semitism to specified an degree that not only do they defend Palestinians, but they besides do not talk about the Holy Land, completely owned by the judaic state. Now we can see how effective in the pacification of the Polish nation were the hammers of the anti-Semitism and “Oświęcim lie”. erstwhile Western societies are mass protesting against Israeli genocide, intimidated Poles stay silent.
It is crucial that intimidation has besides encompassed the opinion-making right - conservative or even national - which promotes the thesis that Palestinians only defend leftist European and American environments. A spectacular evidence to the sowing of specified axiological chaos was the attack on the MP Franciszek Sterczewski, whose participation in the humanitarian flotilla for the Gaza Strip, has been hailed as a trip, holidays, promotion of their own image, etc., throwing in the mist of the memory of the starving Palestinians. This unacceptable moral stigma has caused additional havoc in Poles' consciousness, pacified this time by "their own".
In this context, the paradox is unconditional support and the limitless – devastating Poland – aid to the Bander Ukrainians in the Western War against Russia. Despite the fact that the ideology of Ukrainian Nazism has become the authoritative ideology of the authorities of this state, Warsaw continues to sustain them and helps to proceed the war – against which we, the nation, do not protest.
And while we desire peace, full of freedom and independence, we are incapable to support our desires by liberating action. Our faithfulness to these inalienable values is expressed only in polls and social media. And we will not be able to do anything for them until we have verified the overpowering cult of the fallen West - including the worship of America, the EU and NATO - and verified unconditionally our assistance to neo-Bander Ukraine. Until we resume the thought of the common good, strengthening the fidelity of our common past and documenting it to our national culture. Without specified a spiritual renaissance, we have no chance of real independence.
Prof. Anna Raźny
Think Poland, No. 47-48 (23-30.11.2025)
