Ideologia liberalnego kapitalizmu, credo socjalizmu i personalistyczna koncepcja życia społecznego Stefana Wyszyńskiego
The ideology of liberal capitalism, socialist credo, and Stefan Wyszyński's personalist concept of social life

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to expose the personalistic concept of social life as defined by Stefan Wyszyński in the context of the doctrine of liberal capitalism, as well as ideological concepts implementing socialist ideas. The central thesis of the analysis undertaken by the author is to present the issues as mentioned above not so much in terms of defining and authenticating their specificity, but above all as the so-called “incomplete systems,” i.e., concepts that are not compatible with the humanistic-personalistic vision of man and society represented by Wyszyński’s personalism. However, the liberal ideology and the related capitalism, rooted in the realities of the mid-nineteenth century, were constantly evolving, often changing their development dynamics, main parameters, and specificity. In turn, socialist ideology was mainly shaped as a kind of the antithesis of the capitalist reality of the 19th century. However, it has never existed in a uniform and integrated form. The above concept, referred to as the doctrine of socialist orientation, was in fact a hybrid of liberal-capitalist ideas referring – somewhat – to specific forms of neo-feudal bureaucracy, as in the case of “real socialism” typical for the Peoples Republic of Poland. A more detailed analysis of the above concepts and their critical reinterpretation in the context of Wyszyński’s personalistic thought allows us to realize the dangers related to the ideologically motivated propagation of extreme – often distorted – concepts of man and society and the possibility of using them in a specific socio-political reality of the contemporary world.

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