Między utopią a obywatelskim nieposłuszeństwem. Problem przemocy w myśli społeczno-politycznej Edwarda Abramowskiego
Between Utopia and Civil Disobedience. The Question of Violence in Edward Abramowski’s Social and Political Thought

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to examine the problem of violence in Edward Abramowski’s socio-political thought from the perspective of two concepts: utopian thinking, which, according toKarl Popper, inevitably leads to violence, and civil disobedience or an act of resistance to au-thority that rejects violence in principle. The first part of the article shows how Abramowski’scritique of utopianism shapes his vision of a world devoid of violence, realised step by stepthrough grassroots institutions. The second part, then, is devoted to ‘collective conspiracyagainst the government’, which, as one of the ways of practising his utopia, allows the strugglefor national liberation. Ultimately, it seems that the rejection of violence puts Abramowskicloser to piecemeal engineering than to a utopian one, while his social vision fits into Popper’sconcept of open society.

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