Augustyn Wróblewski – prekursor lewackiego anarchizmu
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Summary/Abstract: Augustyn Wróblewski was the author of the nowadays forgotten idealistic syndicalistic conception, which could be put in the wide comprehended leftish and revolutionary trend. At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century he got interested in the socialist direction in the course of his studies in Petersburg and Riga, where he met Russian activists of the Russian Narodnaya Volya propagating messianic terrorism. This direction was propagated by Wróblewski in the course of his so-called second proletariat affiliation. Subsequently he went away to start further studies in the Western Europa and occupied oneself with chemistry and aft er his return he became a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Forming his own thoughts, he referred to the Russian anarchism and French anarchistic syndicalism. Despite apathy, which became prevalent aft er the suppression of revolution in 1905, he propagated ideas calling for the opposition to invasive rule and winning freedom in a stateless society among Polish inhabited in Galicia and indirectly in the Polish Kingdom. He declined legal and parliamentary methods replacing them with radical and anarchistic demands of common liberation in classless society professing its own and authentic „above religious religion of humanity”. That is why Wróblewski paid a great attention to the ethical aspect of preparations for the upcoming revolution. He desired to rebuild the lasting social economic order in a mystical. A new newspaper was designed for this, entitled „Working Affair” and being published in Cracow in years 1912 – 1913. However, this idea did not manage to gain common recognition in the course of the great world war and at the juncture of the revival of Polish statehood.

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