Władysław Leopold Jaworski obolszewizmie, faszyzmie i totalizmie
Władysław Leopold Jaworski on Bolshevism, Fascism, and Totalism

Summary/Abstract: This article offers a new interpretation of the statements made by Polish lawyer and professor at the Jagiellonian University, Władysław Leopold Jaworski, on Bolshevism and fascism, during the 1921–1929 period. They were analyzed through the methodology of the history of ideas—from a comparative perspective. Jaworski’s main thesis was that the Soviet system was the ultimate expression of rationalism, which had been proclaimed as the guiding principle in the organization of social relations and state systems by Enlightenment philosophers and leading figures of the French Revolution. Italian fascism, on the other hand, was a political project aimed at creating an “organic state” that rejected individualism and rationalism, but without resorting to religion. The views of the Polish thinker remain an original and inspiring position, grounded in conservatism and a Christian vision of the human condition.

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