Uwagi o koncepcji kultury i patriotyzmu w myśli Mieczysława Niedziałkowskiego

Abstract

M. Niedziałkowski (1893—1940) was both a distinguished social worker and an ideologist of Polish Socialist Party between the two World Wars. In his theoretical conceptions the problems of culture and patriotism play an important part. The conclusions he han arrived at helped to justify the aspirations of the working classes towards the national sovereignty and the victory of socialism. M. Niedziałkowski propagated the thesis of the development of national culture as a complex of values created by different classes and strata of society during many centuries. He differred from Leninism in the definition of the relations between the national culture and the class ones. He defined patriotism as an attitude of affirmation towards the national culture. In his conceptions of a nation he referred to an Austromarxist O. Bauer. To the model of an exclusive culture he opposed that of a universal one created mainly by proletariat.