Ekstremizm polityczny w postawie Andersa Behringa Breivika – próba analizy wpływu czynników psychologicznych
Political extremism in the attitude of Anders Behring Breivik – an attempt to analyze the influence of psychological factors

Summary/Abstract: Terrorist attempts carried out on 22nd of July, 2011 by Anders BehringBreivik in Oslo and on Utoya island, targeting members of the Norwegian left-wingLabour Party, are the embodiment of “lone wolf ” terrorist acts. Anders Breivik becamean ancestor and a symbol of modern terrorism and was a model for the nextterrorists, for example Brenton Tarrant followed his tips to prepare his own terroristattack in New Zealand. We can analyze the reasons for the attack on many levels,from political – his criticism of the left-liberal European authorities and his passionfor conservative doctrines, particularly monarchy, criticism of Marxism, radical feminism and the influence of the Frankfurt School on contemporary centersof science. On the social level – his xenophobic and racist attitude against dissenters,ethnic and national minorities is analyzed through the issues of dysfunctionalsystems of internal, national and international security. In his manifesto – 2083A European Declaration of Independence, he motivates his actions with passivityand even with the consent of the contemporary European authorities, to the massmigrations of Muslims, which according to him, threatened the Christian unityof Europe. However, the literature of the subject often ignores psychological factors,which, as the analysis below shows, played a significant role in molding the authoritarian,xenophobic and extremist personality of the Norwegian. The main goalof the article is to analyze the biography of the attacker and his manifesto in orderto identify those psychological factors that influenced development of extremistattributes of the terrorist. One of the most important periods of personality formationis early childhood. Disruptions in this part of life undoubtably influencedthe fate of Anders Behring Breivik.

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