By Andrew M. Lobaczewski
"Political Ponerology is attention-grabbing, crucial reading." --Philip Zimbardo, writer of The Lucifer influence "This is a unprecedented book." --Ilan Pappe, writer of The Ethnic detoxification of Palestine the unique manuscript of this booklet went into the furnace mins ahead of a mystery police raid in Communist Poland. the second one replica, painfully reassembled via scientists operating below very unlikely stipulations of violence and repression, was once despatched through courier to the Vatican. Its receipt was once by no means stated - the manuscript and all useful facts misplaced. In 1984, the 3rd and ultimate replica was once written from reminiscence by way of the final survivor of the unique researchers: Andrew Lobaczewski. Zbigniew Brzezinski blocked its ebook. After part a century of suppression, this booklet is eventually on hand. Political Ponerology is stunning in its clinically spare descriptions of the genuine nature of evil. it really is poignant in its extra literary passages revealing the vast affliction skilled by way of the researchers infected or destroyed by means of the affliction they have been learning. Political Ponerology is a examine of the founders and supporters of oppressive political regimes. Lobaczewski s process analyzes the typical elements that result in the propagation of guy s inhumanity to guy. Morality and humanism can't lengthy stand up to the predations of this evil. wisdom of its nature and its insidious impression on either contributors and teams - is the single antidote.
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I am thankful to Madame Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Professor Arkadiusz Jadczyk, and their Friends for their heartfelt encouragement, understanding, and their labour in bringing my old work to be published. Andrew M. obaczewski. Rzeszów – Poland, December 2005 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION May the reader please imagine a very large hall in an old Gothic university building. Many of us gathered there early in our studies in order to listen to the lectures of outstanding philosophers and scientists. We were herded back there – under threat - the year before graduation in order to listen to the indoctrination lectures which recently had been introduced.
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