Plebejski, populistyczny, posthistoryczny. Formy polityczności sarmatyzmu masowego
Plebeian, Populist, Posthistorical: Forms of Politicalness in Mass Sarmatism

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses postwar versions of Sarmatism. The different variants are distinguished by their ability to formulate clear political demands and to direct those demands at the authorities. Such a notion of politicalness is absent from the first variant (the plebeian one from the 1960s and 70s), when Socialist mass society appropriated signs of noble culture. The political appears in populist Sarmatism (the “Solidarity” movement; the turn of the 70s and 80s), which combines the demands for state care and for the right of social rebellion. The third option – posthistorical Sarmatism (Fronda, the 90s) – returns to the plebeian version by fighting for the recognition of traditional Polish customs. Finally, dark Sarmatism (Rymkiewicz’s essays; the turn of the first and second decade of the twenty-first century) recovers the political by identifying Sarmatism with an ability to refuse obedience to the powers that be.

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