July 7, 2017

The sources of euphemism and political correctness are too close to be seen. The Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski spent the better part of the 50’s and 60’s attempting to create a (Soviet Communist-) Socialism with a Human Face. Some of his more important attempts are collected in Toward a Marxist Humanism: Essays on the Left Today. The failure to square the circle was one of the things that forced Kolakowski into exile in the West. His success in documenting the failure of real-existing socialism in… Read more