Ludwika Kulczyckiego krytyka doktryny anarchistycznej

Abstract

Ludwik Kulczycki was a political writer, one of the first to present the political doctrine of anarchy to the Polish reader. His work “Modern Anarchism” (Anarchizm współczesny), written in 1902, as well as his later writings concerning anarchism have not lost their informative value until today. Ludwik Kulczycyki not only discussed the views of the ideologists of anarchism chronologically, but also presented a critique of this ideology. The focus of that critique was anarchists’ attitude to the state, the law and the parliamentarism. Kulczycki showed that anarchists’ view of the law is fallacious, as societies cannot exist without legal norms and without the institution of state, which secures law and order. Though aware of the flaws of the parliamentary system, Kulczycki also noticed the necessity of its existence and the need to undertake reforms to eliminate those flaws. The arguments that he presented in his critique of the doctrine of anarchy have remained rationally valid and are still up-to-date, which is a proof of the utopian character of the anarchist attitude.