Od Kalopei do Rzeczpospolitej Samorządnej. Próba charakterystyki polskich utopii socjalnych

Abstract

The research aim of this article was to analyze the socialist utopia as an idealistic inspiration
in the process of democratizing the socio-political system in the perspective of two centuries;
from the times of the imaging of the idealistic system picture by Wojciech Gutkowski in
the second half of the 18th century to the ancestors of Polish socialist thought, all the way
to the “Solidarity” revolution and further on, to the contemporary social life formed under
the influence of the emancipation ideas and determined by the factors of the information
revolution and globalization processes. This is why the author of this article seeks an answer
to a question, what role in the new conditions does the socialist utopia fulfill - an idealistic
impression of the social justice system, does it still have its impetus as a prospective idea
and did it not stop being an inspiration to reform the state system, does it play a role of an
axiological system in the form of a substitute on the conditions of the atrophy of the ethical
fundaments of the social life and idea secularization.
Key words: social utopias, Polish socialists, “Solidarity”, system shift