Inteligencja, socjalizm i rewolucja w myśli politycznej Jana Wacława Machajskiego (1866–1926)
Intelligentsia, Socialism, and Revolution in Political Thought of Jan Wacław Machajski (1866–1926)
Author(s): Michał Jerzy ZachariasSubject(s): Political history, Social history
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: socialism; revolution; intelligentsia (“white-collar workers”); bourgeois society; proletariat; Jan Wacław Machajski; Stefan Żeromski; Johann Karl Rodbertus-Jagetzow; Karl Marx; Vladimir I. Lenin; Edu
Summary/Abstract: The article presents Jan Wacław Machajski’s views on socialism and revolution as well as the political role and position of intellectuals. The author emphasizes that in the Polish thinker’s view, the intelligentsia was a specific social strata. First of all, it was an interest group, extremely selfish, devoid of any ethos or altruism, a sense of responsibility and servitude towards weaker social groups. A strata aspiring to high material status and power. The manipulative theory and practice of socialism, in line with the conviction that all concepts, theories and socialist activities, with Marxism at the forefront, were only a method of securing interests of their group.
Journal: Dzieje Najnowsze
- Issue Year: 51/2019
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 69-104
- Page Count: 36
- Language: Polish
