Draft:Organisation of Monarchic Poles

The Polish Monarchists' Organisation (Organizacja Monarchistów Polskich) is a Polish association founded on 16 November 1989 that advocates the restoration of a Catholic Traditional Monarchy in Poland. A large part of its members are Traditionalist Catholics.

Since its foundation, its president has been Adrian Nikiel, a member of the Union of Royal Politics party (currently associated with the Congress of the New Right). Between 1999 and 2011, the president of its Court of Honour was Norbert Wójtowicz. Professor Jacek Bartyzel, a scholar of Carlism, and Tomasz Gabiś are honorary members of the organisation. Robert Iwaszkiewicz, a member of the European Parliament and politician of the Congress of the New Right, is an ordinary member.

The PMO disseminates its legitimist thinking through its website Legitymistyczny Portal (legitymizm.org) and its newsletter Rojalista - Pro Patria. He has also published a number of books and pamphlets by Jacek Bartyzel, Artur Ławniczak and Norbert Wójtowicz. In 2009 the PMS established two decorations: the Jubilee Cross and the Cross of Prince St. Casimir.

Their political activities are mostly based in the development of huge amount of doctrinal work in the intellectual sphere, along difussing their doctrines through many organized conferences, lectures and demonstrations that serves as an huge research material for a person interested in Political philosophy. Along it, they practices Mecenate through Marketing strategy for several books of Political science, Political theology and Historical sociology that are published under the patronage of the organization. Through this effort, the PMO, along the CMC, has turned into one of the two biggest traditional-monarchist organizations making activism and militancy in contemporary Poland, although there has been a lack of interest from Mass media to develop literature about this organization (being difficult to get information of them outside of the internal sources, like the Rojalista-Pro Patria magazine published by the OMP, along the programs, documents, books and texts published in OMP website and related).

The PMO have got support from notable figures of Political Catholic institutions in Poland, such as the Conservative-Monarchist Club (like Adam Wielomski) or Museum of J.P. II and Primate Wyszyński (like Paweł Skibiński). Also has support from other Traditionalist intellectuals like Miguel Ayuso from Traditionalist Communion.

History

The PMO originalle operated under the name "Międzystanowa Organizacja Monarchistyczna" (Interstate Monarchist Organization, based in restoring Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a Miedzymorze Monarchical Confederation) when it was established on November 16, 1989 in Wrocław by the initiative of Adrian Nikiel and Artur Stanisław Rusinek. Nikiel, a bookseller technician graduated in Political science, get the presidency of the group and in 1992 get the responsabilities of editor-in chief and publisher of Rojalista-Pro Patria. At the same year he associted the PMO with the Wrocław branch of the Real Politics Union (and in 2011 Nikiel joined to the Congress of the New Right, although only for Euroscepticist goals and not aggreing with the rest of Far-right coallition). Since 1989-1990, the PMO developed it's organization's Statute, Ideological Declaration, Catholic Manifesto, National Manifesto and Economic Manifesto. On October 16, 1990, it was signed the Second Founding Act of the Organization, which added more provisions that weren't in the the Act of November 16, 1989, some of it's decissioin were the change of name to the one under which currently operates.

Doctrine

See also: Traditionalist conservatism, Thomism, and Catholic social teaching

They're based on Medieval Scholastic Political Philosophy, specially Thomist Iusnaturalism and Theocentric Common good constitutionalism, while rejecting Modern philosophy bad innovations (like Nominalism, Anthropocentrism, Secular humanism, Cartesianist Dualism, Rationalism, Empiricism, Legal positivism, Contractualism, French enlightenment, British philosophy, German idealism, Utilitarianism, Egalitarianism, Dialectical materialism, Voluntarism, Relativism, Nihilism, Postmodernism, etc) and modern ideologies (such as Liberalism, Nationalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, Anarchism), along Political modernization process (such as Secularization, Absolutist Monarchy, Bourgeois revolution, Constitutionalisation, Republicanization, Capitalist development, Proletarian revolution).

Due to that Traditionalist conservatist position, they reject the monarchist groups that wants to stablish a Constitutional monarchy on Poland, and also has criticisism over "Modern conservatist" for being just Liberals masked as Conservatives.

Contemporary Polish sociologist, prof. Jadwiga Staniszkis emphasizes that Poland – and not only in modern times, but to this day – has never undergone a philosophical, but sociopolitically fraught, “nominalistic revolution”, remaining faithful to classical Thomism and the Thomistic concept of the “common good”. Thanks to this, thanks to having a “Polish-Roman soul”, the Polish nation was able to survive all cataclysms, such as the loss of statehood from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century, and then half a century of occupation, first Nazi, later Communist, and to maintain its community identity, which was also revealed in the “peaceful revolution” of Solidarity.

However, just like Spain, Poland, starting from the 18th century, began to be engulfed by trends hostile to the native tradition, considering it a symptom of backwardness and obscurantism, associated especially with Catholic religiosity, and looking instead to the European, mainly French, and therefore the most radical, Enlightenment. In Poland, this trend also had support from abroad. The armed Russian interventions and later the first partition of Poland between Russia, Prussia and Austria took place under the hypocritical pretext of ensuring "religious tolerance" for schismatics and Protestant heretics (in reality, nowhere in Europe did they enjoy such freedom). But even in Poland itself there appeared uncritical imitators of “enlightened Europe”, our native “Frenchmen” (afrancesados). One of the heroes of the greatest work of Polish traditionalism: Pan Tadeusz, recalls with disapproval how “the fashion of Frenchness came to the Fatherland” and how impudent lordlings invaded it, “persecuting in the Fatherland God, the faith of ancestors, / laws and customs, even old dresses”. One of these afrancesados ​​“announced that he would reform us, / civilize and constitute us; / He announced to us that some eloquent Frenchmen / had made an invention: that people are equal” and “at that time there was such blindness, / that the oldest things in the world were not believed, / unless they were read in a French newspaper”. Since the Enlightenment, the outgrowth of Polish collective life, just like in Spain, has been the successive phalanxes of “Europeanizers”, “modernizers” and bards of “progress”: Polish Jacobins, democrats, positivists, socialists… The most tragic figure and phase of this process was the attempt to communize Poland in the years 1944-1989, under the direct pressure of Soviet domination. Domestic collaborators of Moscow communism were eager to present the inevitable, in their opinion, “discomforts” of enslaving Poland as the price to be paid for “modernization”. The Marxist philosopher Tadeusz Kroński – who was quoted with understanding by the poet and Nobel Prize winner Czesław Miłosz – expressed this brutally when he said: “We will teach people in this country to think rationally, without alienation, with Soviet rifle butts.”

Poland, fortunately, liberated itself from the Soviet Union and from communism, although it was horribly – spiritually and materially – crippled by it. Unfortunately, however, this does not mean a return to tradition and a definitive abandonment of “modernizing” mimetismo. As the conservative philosopher, Prof. Ryszard Legutko, has insightfully explained in probably the most important Polish book of recent years – Esej o dusz polskiego – Poles are again being obtrusively lectured that they have not matured to the challenges of the era, that they are backward, intolerant and xenophobic. Once again, it turns out that there is nothing valuable in our tradition, that we should start "over" again, preferably forgetting our history. The democratic-liberal project thus fulfills the same function of a modernist, "electric mixer" that should make us similar to "Europe" as quickly as possible, crushing everything that offends "European standards". Of course, it does not use terror, like communism, but a skillful, "libertarian" rhetoric, in which the key word is the ambiguous "normality".

The PMO reivindicates Polish Reactionary thinkers or sympathyzers like Adam Mickiewicz, Ignacy Skrochowski, Joseph Conrad, Jędrzej Giertych. Also Polish reactionary associations like Przegląd Poznański, Przegląd Katolicki, Przegląd Polski.

Influence

See also: Traditionalism (Spain), carlism, and integralism

One of it's intellectuals, Jacek Bartyzel, is a great admirer of Spanish conservatism, specifically of the "authentic reactionary" monarchical movements such as Carlism. Because of that, the movement defend a similar conception of monarchy and Historiography presented in Carlist authors such as Jaime Balmes, Juan Donoso Cortés, Juan Vázquez de Mella, Francisco Elías de Tejada y Spínola, Rafael Gambra Ciudad, etc. that defended the existence of a "Limited Monarch" moderated by by the Intermediate Bodies institutions (like Fuero or it's Polish equivalent as Ziemska and Lauda) that protects the social sovereign of Society, through Corporative associations, from the State Sovereignty.

Just as Spain and Portugal fought against the Muslim Moors and later against the Turks, so too Poland, as the easternmost bastion of Christianitas, defended it against the pagan Mongols and later also against the Turks. The great culminations of these struggles are: on the one hand, the salvation of papal Rome in the naval battle of Lepanto, fought under the command of the Spanish prince John of Austria, and on the other, the salvation of imperial Vienna in the battle at Kahlenberg under the command of the Polish king John III Sobieski.

But the analogies do not end there. I would like to refer here to the profound distinctions of Francisco Elías de Tejada (1917-1978) - between modern Europe as "mechanistic" and Christianity as "organicist" and Rafael Gambra (1920-2004) - between tradition and "imitation" (mimicry). Well, in the 16th and 17th centuries, Poland, like Spain, resisted the secularist and anti-traditionalist tendencies that were sweeping Europe at that time. In the case of Poland, there were even later attempts to call it a "Polish anomaly", meaning that modern absolutism never existed in Poland, neither in the "classical" form nor in the form of "enlightened despotism."

Instead of absolutism, Poland was formed in the late Middle Ages by the Republic of Poland (Res Publica), a "republican monarchy of the Polish nation", in which the supreme power was the general Sejm, composed of "three sitting estates" [stanów sejmujących]: the Crown (elective from 1572), the aristocratic Senate and the representative of the "knightly order" [stan rycerski], i.e. the nobility, the Chamber of Deputies. The essence of the old Polish system was also extensive territorial self-government (ziemska), analogous to Spanish foralism. At the same time, defending the "Limited Monarchy", the author of the commentary to Bodin's translation of "The Republic", Gaspar de Aanástra e Isunza, noted that the Spaniards could not accept replacing the concept of "supreme power" (suprema auctoritas) with the concept of "sovereignty" (soberanía), the mixed monarchy continued in Poland. The author of the work "De optimo senatore", famous throughout Renaissance Europe, Wawrzyniec Goślicki (1530-1607), after proving that the Polish monarchy was a model of a commixtum regime, proudly concluded: "in short, the Poles have such a king as Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon and a whole host of philosophers and legislators imagined as the ruler of a perfect state and as desired by nature and God himself.”

See also

• Royalisme

Sources

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