Andrew Lobaczewski - Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism

I was most impressed with the combination of depth and breadth in this treatment of evil; depth in the search for and elucidation of the sources or origins of different kinds of evil and of the systems that generate and perpetuate evil, and breadth in the rich reach of ideas across many domains of knowledge. Together they combine to make fascinating, essential reading.

Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Stanford University, and author of The LuciferEffect

There are only a few books that discuss the origin and nature of totalitarian pathocracies. How does pathological behavior become dominant in a society? obaczewski, who lived under communism, provides invaluable psychological analysis of what M. Scott Peck termed the people of the lie. Read this valuable work and you ll better understand.

Arthur Versluis, author of The New Inquisitions and Conversations in ApocalypticTimes

Pathocracy is one of those hidden concepts that, once uncovered, suddenly helps to make sense of the world. It explains much of the chaos and suffering which has filled human history, and which still sadly afflicts the world today. For this, we owe Lobaczewski and his book Political Ponerology a massive debt.

Steve Taylor, PhD, author of DisConnected and TheFall

Andrew Lobaczewski s Political Ponerology is crucial reading for understanding, possibly, political theory s most important, but certainly its most neglected, explanation of modern governance dynamics: the shadowy role of clinical psychopaths in political life. If you want to get past the standard, bridled platitudes of conventional political science, to the real beating heart of human political life, this book is indispensable. Harrison Koehli s new edition even further enriches the book s contribution, fleshing out Lobaczewski s key ideas and arguments with cross-references to his elaborations in other works, not yet available in English. Additionally, Koehli s new footnotes constitute a catalogue of essential sources for anyone keen to follow the many avenues of exploration radiating out from Lobaczewski s rich and provocative political analysis.

Michael McConkey, author of The Managerial Class onTrial

If you don t know about criminal psychopathy as it relates to the political class, I wholeheartedly suggest you check out Political Ponerology by Andrew Lobaczewski.

James Corbett, The Corbett Report

This is an extraordinary book. I cannot judge the biological aspects of the tyrannical few who rule political and economic elites in the modern era, but intuitively I am convinced that it is a pathological condition. The analysis and prognosis offered in this book rang true and valid again and again when I thought about my own work, both with regards to 1948 and the history of the Israeli occupation.

Ilan Papp , Professor of History, University of Exeter, and author of The Ethnic Cleansing ofPalestine

I strongly recommend this book for anyone who is managing human or financial risk in this environment or is looking to create healthy change. The insights are deep and rich they require focus and concentration. And the point comes home again and again: Ignota nulla curatio morbi do not attempt to cure what you do not understand.

Catherine Austin Fitts, president of Solari, Inc., and Assistant Secretary of Housing in the first Bush Administration

The book you hold in your hand may be the most important book you will ever read; in fact, it will be. This book is not just about macrosocial evil; it is also about everyday evil, because, in a very real sense, the two are inseparable. The long-term accumulation of everyday evil always and inevitably leads to grand systemic evil that destroys more innocent people than any other phenomenon on this planet.

Laura Knight-Jadczyk, founder of Sott.net, and author of From Paul to Mark:PaleoChristianity

[ Political Ponerology ] impressed me in lots of ways and provoked me to think more about the nature and origin of what we call evil. The strongest part of the book is the analysis of how psychopaths gain power and of the behaviour of such societies. In all, a book I was pleased to have read and which I hope will continue to promote the study of how a certain kind of evil spreads. And especially in continuing to name as evil things that many people are unable to see as such.

Philip R. Davies, Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies,

University of Sheffield, and author of Whose Bible Is ItAnyway?

I think everyone should read this book because it provides the keys necessary for understanding events that we often can t comprehend. The book describes the origins of evil, its true nature, and illustrates how it spreads throughout society.

Silvia Cattori, freelance journalist

Political Ponerology is an invaluable work that every human being striving to become conscious, should read, not only for its expose of the pathology of the individuals currently in control of the United States government, but also the light it may shed on individuals closer to home, some of whom may be friends, fellow-activists, business or civic leaders. The book s purpose is to cultivate discernment and buttress our trust of our innate intuition in order to navigate the daunting manifestations of evil that surround us in the twenty-first century.

Carolyn Baker, psychotherapist, professor of history and psychology, and author of SacredDemise

[T]he subject of evil is long overdue to be studied in scientific terms rather than simply as an issue approached strictly in theological or moral terms (or, as is all too frequent currently, in political terms). Ultimately, only social science, with a strong dose of human biological science, will be able to study and treat this human characteristic. The author is probably correct that a field of enquiry called ponerology will be dependent on many fields of inquiry of both the scientific and humanistic persuasions to become a successful antidote to this perennial bane of human existence.

Glenn R. Storey, Associate Professor of Classics and Anthropology, University of Iowa

POLITICALPONEROLOGY

The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism

DR. ANDREW M. LOBACZEWSKI

Red Pill Press
2022

First edition Andrew M. Lobaczewski 2006
Revised edition Quantum Future Group 2022
Foreword Michael Rectenwald 2022

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Revised, expanded edition 2022

The original Polish text of Political Ponerology was written in 1984 and translated by Alexandra Chciuk-Celt, PhD, University of New York, NY, in 1985. The text was corrected by the author in 1998 and further grammatical and typographical corrections were made by the editors in 2006 and 2022. First published by Red Pill Press in 2006. Original English title: PoliticalPonerology: A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes .

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When I first encountered Political Ponerology by Andrew M. obaczewski, Ihad been struggling to understand just how authoritarian leftism hadessentially taken over the United States of America. Ever since myencounters with the rabid social justice warriors as a Professor atNew York Universityas I recounted in my book