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of the Polish left-wing intelligentsia, and more precisely, the group that was regarded as revisionist by the leaders of the Communist party after the October of 1956. Apart from studying at the university, Beylin also attended the Institute for the Education of the Research Staff (Instytut Kształcenia Kadr Naukowych) – a school that educated the personnel of Marxism-oriented social sciences. In his scholarly and didactic work he was connected with many universities, including art schools. Beside a few early publications he did not have any works in a tendentious ideological overtone. He was engaged in popularizing the history of the social thought and valuable contemporary humanities. Similarly to his friend Leszek Kołakowski, Beylin was a philosopher and a publicist engaged in the disputes over the essence of socialism and the state based on those ideas that were characteristic for the period of the Polish thaw. He was well-known for his criticism of the absurdities of the socialist reality, mocking commentaries and polemics with the main ideologues of that time. His critical attitude and gestures of solidarity with his incriminated friend resulted in excluding him from the Communist party. After March 1968, on the wave of anti-Semitism, he was also dismissed. Soon afterwards, he died. His texts about, among others, the role of intelligence and the obligations of intellectuals were published posthumously in periodicals published on emigration
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The article is an example of a discourse analysis dedicated to the decreasing relevance of the left-wing politics in Poland. In the course of the article author, first, reconstructs explanatory factors behind the phenomenon of the „disappearing left in Poland” that has been proposed by several authors since the 90s. In the second step, author applies this framework to the field of parliamentary politics, political discourses as well as to wider political context (i.e. media). The explanatory factors has been classified into five groups: adaptation (adjusting the left to the neoliberal order), denial (unsuccessful defense of leftist values and tradition), misrepresentation (consent of the political elites of the left to changing political affiliation of the trade unions that folated towards the conservative right), capture (exploitation of the crucial elements of the doctrine like „welfare state” by the national- Catholic milieus), incoherence (different ideological priorities of the „young” and „old” activists of the Left) and eventually liked with the „vanishing voter” situation in Poland.
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