Anticommunism as a Paradigm of Thinking. On the Works of Józef Mackiewicz
Anticommunism as a Paradigm of Thinking. On the Works of Józef Mackiewicz

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the views of the twentiethcentury Polish writer and journalist Józef Mackiewicz (1902–1985). His perspicacity concerning communist ideology and practice is reflected in his analysis of Soviet propaganda and the Communist Party’s apparatus of power. The article shows how Mackiewicz lays bare the weaknesses and antihumanist face of the USSR, and how he unraveled the paradoxes of communist rule in the context of issues related to the functioning of enslaved societies. The article also deals with Mackiewicz’s controversial criticism of dissident movements and the policies of Western powers toward the Eastern Bloc.

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