What these regimes have in common is the “man-made” nature of the Zeitgeist. Democracies are not dying in the world today; they are being killed by premeditated, deliberate acts on the part of the incumbent leaders.
Is there a gap between conservative neoliberalism and conservative nationalism, within which emancipatory ideas could come to life again, albeit embraced in a perverse dialectics?
At least the coalition program was written under the massive influence of Razem… it will be a decent social democratic set of postulates that the independent left need not be ashamed of.
This draft not only creates a false image of Poland as a country wholly culturally, ethnically and religiously homogenous, but fails to uphold important freedoms guaranteed by Poland’s Constitution.
PiS is a radical right party professing a nationalist-conservative ideology, but implementing social-economic policies that borrow from social democratic ideas.
Father Rydzyk controls a media empire accused of amplifying homophobic and sexist views. Now, he’s seen as the driving force behind a new party aiming at the European Parliament elections in May
On Monday, October 3, 2016 the landscape of social movements in Poland changed. What surprised many observers and academics was the distribution of protest events throughout the country.
“I could not think of a better way to grasp what is behind the nationalist frenzy than to take part in their public events. On November 11, Poland celebrated National Independence Day.”
