Od modernizacyjnego optymizmu ku antymodernizacyjnej utopii : zwrot w myśli politycznej Romana Dmowskiego
alternative title:
Between modertnistic optimism and antimodernistic utopia : a turn in the political thought of Roman Dmowski
author:
Grzybek Dariusz
journal title:
Studia Historyczne
volume:
59
issue:
4 (236)
date of publication
:
2016
pages:
441-464
ISSN:
0025-1429
notes:
Bibliogr. s. 462-463
language:
Polish
journal language:
Polish
abstract in English:
This article analyses the upheaval in political thought of Roman Dmowski (1964-1939), leader of the Polish National Democratic Party or National Party. Dmowski’s later doctrine was partly a counterpart of his earlier thought. Before the First World War, Dmowski supported social and economic modernisiation, but became a cultural pessimist after the war. The sources of this attitude were, however, his economic concepts. Dmowski expected economic catastrophe for industrialised European countries and the quick growth of industry in Asia. As a result, Dmowski prefered economic autarky as an adaptation to the new world order. In his opinion, autarky would give Poland a comparative advantage to the fallen industrial powers like Britain, France or Germany. However, autarkical order is incompatible with a democratic and parliamentary government, and thus Dmowski proposed rule of the "national elite" and politicised Catholicism as the main tool for the political mobilisation of the masses. This way of thinking paved the way to utopian antimodernism ruled by vision of a homogeneous, static and autarchic society ruled by a "national elite".
keywords in Polish:
narodowa demokracja, Roman Dmowski, dezindustrializacja, Europa, pesymizm kulturowy, katolicyzm
keywords in English:
National Democracy, Roman Dmowski, deindustrialisation, Europe, cultural pessimism, Catholicism
number of pulisher's sheets:
1,5
affiliation:
Wydział Zarządzania i Komunikacji Społecznej : Instytut Spraw Publicznych