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Political Ponerology (A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes) Paperback – April 4, 2007

by Andrew M. Lobaczewski (Author), Laura Knight-Jadczyk (Introduction)

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"Political Ponerology is fascinating, essential reading." --Philip Zimbardo, author of The Lucifer Effect "This is an extraordinary book." --Ilan Pappe, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine The original manuscript of this book went into the furnace minutes before a secret police raid in Communist Poland. The second copy, painfully reassembled by scientists working under impossible conditions of violence and repression, was sent via courier to the Vatican. Its receipt was never acknowledged - the manuscript and all valuable data lost. In 1984, the third and final copy was written from memory by the last survivor of the original researchers: Andrew Lobaczewski. Zbigniew Brzezinski blocked its publication. After half a century of suppression, this book is finally available. Political Ponerology is shocking in its clinically spare descriptions of the true nature of evil. It is poignant in its more literary passages revealing the immense suffering experienced by the researchers contaminated or destroyed by the disease they were studying. Political Ponerology is a study of the founders and supporters of oppressive political regimes. Lobaczewski s approach analyzes the common factors that lead to the propagation of man s inhumanity to man. Morality and humanism cannot long withstand the predations of this evil. Knowledge of its nature and its insidious effect on both individuals and groups - is the only antidote.

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Political Ponerology is fascinating, essential reading. --Philip Zimbardo, author of The Lucifer Effect

This is an extraordinary book. --Ilan Pappe, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

This is an extraordinary book. --Ilan Pappe, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

This is an extraordinary book. --Ilan Pappe, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Paperback: 239 pages
Publisher: Red Pill Press; 2nd edition (April 4, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1897244258
ISBN-13: 978-1897244258
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 129 customer reviews
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- #437 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Political Science > History & Theory
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Jim

Good message, clunky delivery

May 21, 2017

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Just finished the book. It's very heavy with psychiatric vocabulary. There is a kind of warning early in the book explaining that only specialized vocabulary can describe the subject matter. I'm dubious about that. If the message of the book is as important to the world as the author suggests, why not make a better attempt to make the book more accessible for as many readers as possible? The forward is well written...by a native English speaker I suppose. Lobaczewski's book is translated, naturally, from Polish I think. The translation is decent but I wouldn't say it's ideal for western readers. One very basic example is 'characteropathy'...a word that doesn't roll off the western tongue quite like 'personality disorder', which is what it means. This is a very simple example, and the term 'characteropathy' is explained on first use in the book...but not in the simple terms 'personality disorder'. Though we get the gist early in the book, it's only in an editor's Afterward, where characteropathy is simply described as 'personality disorder'. It kind of leaves you wondering why such a simple translation wasn't used throughout.

I'm not sure the book really answers it's own question...what is the genesis of evil...or where does evil come from? The book basically says it's hereditary, or the 'evil' individual was dropped on his head as an infant and suffered some brain lesions. It's kind of hard to prove. Anyway, I think the book has great points...namely, that the idea of evil and how it manifests on a large scale under the guise of this political ideology or that ideology needs to be studied exhaustively. The descriptions of the inter-relationship between 'evil' people and 'normal' people is useful. There's a lot of useful stuff in the book.

But, man...it's a tough read. Largely very dry and largely devoid of examples. The book is NOT accessible for a wide cross section of readers I wouldn't imagine. Mainly because of the, let's face it, clunky translation. At times I was totally engaged with the book...for much of it I was slogging through it just trying to get to the end.

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Marvin Sannes

This book is a great help to me in finding some understanding of the ...

August 13, 2016

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This book is a great help to me in finding some understanding of the collapsing culture all around me, and perhaps how I can cope? Truly, this is a glimpse "...into the coming darkness".

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Anne Brandt

This book is not a particularly easy read. But I have bought several copies

August 16, 2015

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This book is not a particularly easy read. But I have bought several copies, and when I lend them out I tend to not get them back. The author's research helps to explain the dark side of who goes into politics, why, and what kinds of results you get. Since this man's research was done many years ago, much more has been done and written about regarding psychopathy. For an easier read, try Snakes In Suits or The Psychopath Next Door. For another view, read The Authoritarians. But this book is a classic and should be read by anyone wanting to understand how our corporations or political systems can take a wrong turn.

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Darin Wilson

A Must Read, Very Important

February 12, 2017

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Please take the time to read this excellent book that explains accurately the genesis of evil and how it manifests in the human family and what can be done about it. Although the book is not written for the layman, don't be intimidated, just keep a good dictionary nearby as you get started. After you become familiar with the academic jargon particular to psychology the book becomes easy enough to follow.

Well worth the time and effort. This book needed to have been written a very long time ago! Not to be missed.

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A story from our past; a book for our times.

September 25, 2015

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This is a book written by a guy who's really old now about some very important data about criminal takeovers in politics that he and his associates collected during the rise of Nazism and then Communism in his part of Europe. I think he was the last surviving member of his research group. They were psychologists. He writes in a style that is not fast-paced or easy to read, but if you are patient with this book, you will learn some things that possibly you had not been aware of before. This is a very important book for these times.

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Death by Stupidity or Why do we continue to allow 5% of our population to destroy our amazing human potential and our planet?

April 4, 2015

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One of the most important books on reclaiming the potential and the future of humanity from the grasp of the psychopaths who have both ruled us all for millennia and who have given us that vilest human dynamic of competition/conflict in which ruthlessness deviousness and opportunism are assets and empathy trust and compassion are serious liabilities -- The study of how evil arises (ponerology) virtually exclusively from these infantile empathetically and cognitively undeveloped monsters, a condition which is perceived as being "normality" by most of us, is revealed in an academic and business-like manner by Lobaczewski's Political Ponerology. This book is no easy read but the effort is more than worth it and reveals a treasury of human observation and is truly invaluable for any political activist and any serious explorer of solutions for the disastrous state of the world today.

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