Krzysztof Szczawiński Essays

Krzysztof Szczawiński

Essays

83 essays

Long March / Gramsci9

  1. 01The word tolerance has been weaponized against you. The weapon was forged in 1965. You should know who forged it and why.
  2. 02The Most Destructive Intellectual Project of the Twentieth Century.
  3. 03Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century.
  4. 04Altiero Spinelli – The Man Who Designed the EU in Prison.
  5. 05Now the Third Man – Rudi Dutschke – The Man Who Gave the Long March Its Name.
  6. 06Friedrich Hayek – The Man Who Gave the Counter-March Its Strategy.
  7. 07The Toolkit to Understand the Long March
  8. 08Saul Alinsky – The Community Activist Who Wrote the Manual
  9. 09Barack Obama – The Most Complete Product of the Long March – The Community Organizer Who Became President.

Communism and the systemic lie11

  1. 10What the West Still Doesn’t Get It:
  2. 11Demoralization and the Legacy of the Lie
  3. 12Truth vs. Narrative Management: A Civilizational Dimension
  4. 13The Wall Didn’t Fall. It Moved.
  5. 14How to fight Communism 2.0
  6. 15I want to apologize, on behalf of Poles, for not having spread the thought of Feliks Koneczny widely enough to spare the world decades of suffering.
  7. 16On communism – in summary:
  8. 17Have been asked repeatedly to do The Gulag Archipelago and Solzhenitsyn.
  9. 18The Man Who Understood Western Civilization – and what/who isn’t part of it.
  10. 19From Plato to Bernie and AOC – A Brief History of Communism
  11. 20Reality Always Collects – Who Pays for Being Wrong?

Virtues and sins2

  1. 21Ethics as a Field – for a new ethical framework.
  2. 22The Seven Deadly Sins – at the Scale of a Civilization.

Civilization, transmission, and demography23

  1. 23The Left and the Right are not two different ideologies - they grew apart to become two different civilizations.
  2. 24Western Civilization doesn’t have any institution to watch after it.
  3. 25Let’s talk Civilizations.
  4. 26The French provided civilizational poison.
  5. 27Culture will save us.
  6. 28For a Structure for The West
  7. 29For a Religion for the West
  8. 30Culture is much wiser than Philosophy.
  9. 31The Six Guys who Built The West
  10. 32Ever wondered why Germany feels so top-down, and hence civilizationally Eastern?
  11. 33Our Civilization is Nobody’s Department
  12. 34Two quotes, twenty-one centuries apart, describing the same mechanism.
  13. 35Did you know that Western Civilization was saved by a Polish king?
  14. 36Migratory Invasion.
  15. 37The orcs are at the gate.
  16. 38I propose a Council of Western Civilization for Europe.
  17. 39What is a proof?
  18. 40What do we base conviction and knowledge on?
  19. 41We will not be doing the Bible as a whole, as it is too big a subject. We will look at it as a political and civilizational document.
  20. 42The Council of Western Civilization – Lessons from the College of Cardinals
  21. 43Is Poland Saving Western Civilization? 🇵🇱🏛️🗽
  22. 44The Transmission Problem.
  23. 45Why I Write.

Culture through books and films31

  1. 46Atlas Shrugged made simple:
  2. 47Now The Fountainhead – arguably the better book:
  3. 48Animal Farm by George Orwell, in short:
  4. 49The Brave New World made simple:
  5. 50Did you know that The Lord of the Rings was about communism?
  6. 511. Idiocracy is not a film about television and fast food. It is a film about negative selection – what happens when a system, over enough time, consistently rewards stupidity and punishes thought. The mechanism requires no malice. It requires only that compliance be more comfortable than intelligence, and that comfort be the only value on offer.
  7. 52The Count of Monte Cristo has been voted the most American hero in French literature.
  8. 53Beauty Is What Serves Life – Lessons from The Little Prince
  9. 541. The Little Prince is not a children’s book. It is a book for adults who remember, faintly, what they lost when they became adults – and can no longer say exactly when it happened, or who took it.
  10. 55Citizen Vigilante, the hit sensation of 2026, in short:
  11. 56Aristotle wrote the operating system Western civilization ran on for two thousand years – and quietly abandoned in the twentieth century, around the same time all the catastrophes we have been describing began.
  12. 57Now Plato – the most dangerous philosopher who ever lived.
  13. 58Do you think Demolition Man is just about Sylvester Stallone demolishing stuff and Sandra Bullock being cute back in 1993?
  14. 59Marcus Aurelius – the most reasonable guy from 19 centuries ago. Perhaps because Rome was roughly at the stage at which we find ourselves now.
  15. 60Jean-Jacques Rousseau – the original Woke
  16. 61Voltaire – the fake antidote to Rousseau
  17. 62The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment – the real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire
  18. 63Alexis de Tocqueville – Redeeming the French:)
  19. 64He was offered immortality. He chose home.
  20. 65They had gods for this – Olympus, D.C.
  21. 66Epicurus – for the weekend…
  22. 67George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1949 as a warning.
  23. 68“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”
  24. 69So much has been said and written about Star Wars – so let’s do it with a twist or two.
  25. 70Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513 as a practical manual for power. For five centuries, polite society has pretended to be shocked by it. Meanwhile, every successful political operator — on every side — has been quietly following it. The only people who haven’t read it are the ones who keep losing.
  26. 71“God is dead.” Nietzsche didn’t say this as a celebration. He said it as a warning – and then spent his remaining sane years screaming that nobody understood what it meant.
  27. 72Troy – I remember laughing a bit at Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom back then with their overly pathetic ways, but in retrospect it was a great movie.
  28. 73Meet Thomas Jefferson – the person.
  29. 74The Iliad is not about the Trojan War. It opens in its tenth year — the war almost over, the men exhausted, the end in sight — and closes before the war concludes. It is about what war costs from the inside, without distance, without the mercy of a conclusion.
  30. 75“You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your Freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”
  31. 76Montesquieu is the most underrated thinker in the Western political tradition.

France and Europe3

  1. 77Samedi, les Français se sont vus.
  2. 78After 237 years of this failed experiment, it is time to reverse the madness of the Anti-French Revolution.
  3. 79La France : un pays, deux peuples.

Markets, law, and Hayek4

  1. 80The Law by Bastiat made simple:
  2. 81What is Seen and What is Not Seen by Bastiat:
  3. 82And before Hume, Smith, and Burke, there was Locke – the quiet Englishman who built the foundation everything else rests on.
  4. 83The Road to Serfdom made simple: