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Komunizm a globalizm
Communism and globalism

Author(s): Stanisław Kowalczyk
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Fundacja »Lubelska Szkoła Filozofii Chrześcijańskiej«
Keywords: communism; globalization

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes the notion of communism in its two fundamental (narrow and broad) meanings. He recalls remarks on communism given by Pius XI and John Paul II, according to which communism is a reductionist anthropology, atheism, apology of the fight of classes, and that of violence. The author shows ideological similarities between communism and globalism, because they both pretend to be holistic visions of reality, and interpret human life in atheistic and naturalistic context. He lists their materialist references toward social life: the primacy of the collective over the individual, the primacy of matter over thought, the problem of private property, the undermining of the traditional model of family etc. Communism, according to the author, which tried to conquer the world militarily and ideologically, was indeed a kind of globalism. After its fall, there are post-communist versions of globalism which follow ideological liberalism, ecological fundamentalism, and postmodernism.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 97-106
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish
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