Ideologia i polityczność w perspektywie neokonserwatyzmu amerykańskiego – tradycja, recepcja i współczesne implikacje
Political ideology of the neo-conservative American perspective - tradition, reception and contemporary implications

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to examine the philosophical, ideological and political roots of the American neoconservatism. The analysis of those three abovementioned aspects should capture the genuine sources of the movement, and, on the other hand, prove the thesis that the American neoconservatism cannot be reduced just to a shape of a traditional representative of the left or rightwing political orientation in the United States. In the further part of the article the author discusses the origin of the establishment of the neoconservatist formation against the events of 1960’s and 1970’s in the United States. Moreover, the discrepancy between the forerunners of the movement and its modern representatives is shown in the context of defining a desired model of the country, society, and economics. The last point of the article is an attempt to examine on what level the formula of the American neoconservatism of the 1960’s and 1970’s assumed “going out” of the past disputes between the left and the right, and on what level these statements have provoked the recent tendencies on the American and European political scenes. The author opts for the thesis that the style of pursuing politics, as much as the approach to a problem of ideology and the political performed by neocons, compels to recognize their formation as a prefiguration of policy in the womb of the European social democracy and the American liberalism, enclosed in the Third Way Manifesto.

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