Published: 2023-05-15

The Ideology of Liberal Capitalism, Socialist Credo, and Stefan Wyszyński’s Personalist Concept of Social Life

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Abstract

The presented article exhibits the personalist concept of Stefan Wyszyński’s social life in the context of the ideology of liberal capitalism and socialist conceptions. The leading thesis of these analyzes is to reveal the above systems not so much in antinomic or analogous terms. Liberal ideology and related to it capitalism arose in the mid-19th century and have constantly evolved since then, often changing their main features. Socialist ideology, on the other hand, was formed as a concept opposed to the capitalist reality of the 19th century. However, it never really existed in a particular form. The occurring system described as “socialism” was, in fact, a hybrid of liberal-capitalist ideas and a neo-feudal bureaucracy. A more detailed analysis of the above doctrines and their critical reinterpretation in the context of Wyszyński’s personalist thought affords to become aware of the dangers related to the ideologically motivated promotion of extreme, often distorted concepts of the human person and their application in the specific realities of the contemporary world.

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Ficek, R. (2023). The Ideology of Liberal Capitalism, Socialist Credo, and Stefan Wyszyński’s Personalist Concept of Social Life. Silesian Historical and Theological Studies, 54(2), 160–177. https://doi.org/10.31261/SSHT.2021.54.2.03

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Vol. 54 No. 2 (2021)
Published: 2023-05-15


ISSN: 0137-3447
eISSN: 2956-6185

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Instytut Gość Media/Księgarnia św. Jacka

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