Ryszard Legutko’s Keynote Address on the ‘Totalitarian Tendencies in Contemporary Democracies’

The word ‘totalitarian’ seems blatantly inaccurate in the description of today’s Western civilization, and this conference clearly proves that. We would not be here if we lived in a totalitarian society. I vividly remember how aggressively and often brutally the communist government reacted to the dissenting initiatives, and it would be indecent to say that […]