Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes - Andrew Lobaczewski

and societies more effective protection from undeserved abuse.

Of course, the operational measures would be much more

complex and more dependent upon a better understanding of

causation than could ever possibly be the case in a punitive

system. A trend toward transformations in this direction is evi-

dent in the legislation of civilized nations. The social system

proposed herein would have to break through traditions in this

area in a more effective way.

No government whose system is based on an understanding

of the laws of nature, whether concerning physical and biologi-

cal phenomena or the nature of man, can lay a claim to sover-

eignty in the meaning we have inherited from the nineteenth

century and subsequent nationalistic or totalitarian systems. We

share the same air and water throughout our planet. Common

cultural values and basic moral criteria are becoming wide

spread. The world is interlinked in transportation, communica-

tion, and trade and has become Our Planet. Under such condi-

tions, interdependence and cooperation with other nations and

supranational institutions, as well as moral responsibility for

overall fate, become a law of nature. The national organism

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A VISION OF THE FUTURE

becomes autonomous but not independent. This must be regu-

lated by means of the appropriate treaties and incorporated into

national constitutions.

A system thus envisaged would be superior to all its prede-

cessors, being based upon an understanding of the laws of na-

ture operating within individuals and societies, with objective

knowledge progressively superceding opinions based upon

natural responses to phenomena. We should call it a

“LOGOCRACY”.

Due to their properties and conformity to the laws of nature

and evolution, logocratic systems could guarantee social and

international order on a long-term basis. In keeping with their

nature, they would then become transformed into more perfect

forms, a vague and faraway vision of which may beckon to us

in the present.

The author has survived many dangerous situations and be-

come disappointed with many people and institutions. How-

ever, the Great Providence has never disappointed him under

the most difficult circumstances. This condition suffices to

permit him to promise that elaborating a more detailed draft for

such a necessary better system will also be possible.

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About the Author

Andrew M. !obaczewski was born in 1921 and grew up on

a rural estate in the beautiful piedmountain vicinity of Poland.

Under the Nazi occupation he worked on the farm, was an

apiarist, and then a soldier of the Home Army, an underground

Polish resistance organisation. After the Soviet invasion of

Poland, the family estate was confiscated and the owners

driven out from their old house.

Working hard for living, he studied psychology at Yagiello-

nian University in Cracow. The conditons under “Communist”

rule turned his attention to the matters of psychopathology,

especially to the role of psychopathic persons in such a gov-

ernmental system. He was not the first such researcher who

followed a similar path. The work was begun by a secret un-

derstanding of scientists of the older generation, which was

destroyed shortly after by the Red security authorities.

!obaczewski then later became the one who succeeded in ac-

complishing the work and putting it down on paper.

Working in a mental hospital, than a general hospital, and in

open mental health service, the author improved his skills in

clinical diagnosis and psychotherapy. Finally, when suspected

by the political authorities of knowing too much in the matter

of the pathological nature of the system, he was forced to emi-

grate in 1977. In the USA he became engulfed by the activity

of the long paws of the Red diversion. Instead of his very hard

times, the work presented now was written in New York in

1984. All attempts to publish this book at this time failed.

With broken health, he returned in 1990 to Poland and went

under the care of doctors, his old friends. His condition im-

proved gradually, and he became able to work and to publish

another of his works in matters of psychotherapy and socio-

psychology. He is still living in his homeland.

INDEX

Acquired deviations, 105

Braithwaite, R.B., 87

Adler’s Rhombus, 184

Brzezicki, Eug., 135

Alexander II, 266

Bulgaria, 225

Alliluieva, Svetlana, 117

Bush, George W., 8, 24, 109,

America, 91. See United

207

States of America. See

Caesar, Julius, 105

United States of America

Canup, Robert, 20

Anti-Smoking Campaign, 223

Capitalism, 239, 305

Asperger’s Syndrome, 133

Communist societies as

Association, 157, 158, 161,

state capitalist, 239

164, 168, 169, 170, 172,

Catholic Church, 8, 27, 58,

312, 313

134

Asthenic psychopathy, 133,

Censorship, 49, 177, 248

134, 223

Characteropathy, 106, 111,

Auschwitz, 38, 312

113, 116, 117, 120, 137,

Bad Times, 88

148, 154, 155, 188, 189,

Psychological Value of, 85,

214

87

and religious groups, 272

Behaviorists, 49

And social movements, 189

Beria, L., 116

Effects on Normal People,

Biological factors, 55, 186,

107, 109

228

Elimination of from social

Blocking out, 152

movements, 192

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 105

Relation to schizoids in

Borman, Martin, 163

ponerogenesis, 188

Brain Cortex Damage, 114

Role in Ponerogenesis, 106

Brain Tissue Lesions, 89, 100,

Characteropathy, 110

105, 106, 111, 113, 118,

Charcot, Jean-Martin, 90, 176

132, 227, 291

Cheney, Dick, 191

Acquired deviations and,

Christianity, 45, 46, 47, 167

105

and Greek Heritage, 47

318

INDEX

and Roman Influence, 48

112, 131, 145, 146, 147,

Appropriates Roman forms,

148, 155, 177, 181, 185,

47

189, 196, 231, 233, 234,

Appropriates Roman forms,

242, 251, 269, 270, 272,