Liberte World

Activities of the Palikot’s Movement (Ruch Palikota – RP) turned out to be the greatest, but predictable disappointment in politics (from the point of view of the liberal voter) of the last few days of the year. When the position of the group in the pre election polls become strong and especially since entering the [...]

If it is possible, by means of social redistribution of resources (the use of e.g. tax measures or social welfare), to minimize the negative impact on our lives by certain factors that are beyond our control, such a strategy realizes the liberal ideal of freedom. It provides deep justification for this ideal of freedom.

For more than twenty years the conservative liberalism has been a dominating trend of public life in Poland.

Polish political stage can be – and I think it should be – seen not only in the context of post-political thinking and technocracy of politics but also, above all in the context of the collaboration with the conservatism. It can turn out that it was this process which made the young Polish liberalism empty [...]

Liberalism and nationalism have a common heritage in the 18th and 19th century when the ideas of Enlightenment found expression in the politics of Europe and later in India. Both ideas arose as a reaction to absolutism and complemented each other’s rise. In Europe, Guiseppe Garibaldi fought many wars not only to unify his homeland [...]